Associate Director, Audio Investment

Company Description

"APEX is a distinct next-generation trading entity within Publicis Media that identifies and invests in emerging market trends to benefit Publicis clients.

APEX develops innovative offerings through direct partnerships and principal investments that allow clients of all size to benefit from custom solutions that best fit their business challenges in an increasingly complex media environment.

Clients opt into solutions outside the agency’s core services that offer tangible benefits including guaranteed outcomes, increased flexibility, and advantageous pricing."

Overview

The Associate Director role will report into the Director position and will be a part of the National Audio Investment Team. This team works collectively to ensure that we have a thorough understanding of and a pulse on the media landscape, make smart investments with media partners, negotiating mutually favorable terms, and plan and execute client media buys that best deliver on their business and marketing objectives. This individual will play a large role in planning campaigns across various clients and verticals, while managing their direct reports and fostering their growth. They will be responsible for ensuring excellent customer service and that the business goals for APEX and our clients are both being achieved.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities
  • Developing Talent Partnerships & Marketplace Client & Business Growth
    • Develop and manage team, providing coaching and career development for direct reports while overseeing development processes for broader team within management tree
    • Actively monitor workload and production while balancing team workload and accounts
    • Leads and/or plays key role in training & development for new hires
    • Reviews and supports goals of Supervisors
  • Partnerships & Marketplace
    • Develops and maintains strong partner relationships while identifying opportunities in the marketplace for partner prospects
    • Capable of presenting to agencies, clients, or cross-channel teams on marketplace trends and APEX capabilities
    • Manage relationships with vendors including pipeline management and communicating client needs throughout the campaign lifecycle
    • Leads escalation discussions of serious campaign or partner issues while acting as lead for dedicated agencies
    • Develop new strategies for clients and support/manage level of client satisfaction to retain/grow revenue
    • Lead day-to-day partnership management and/or vendor prospect evaluations to discover new growth opportunities
  • Client & Business Growth
    • Oversee dedicated agencies including RFP & campaign support, client satisfaction, setting agency expectations, and fostering growth
    • Manage team workload ensuring that all team members are operating at baseline capacity while fairly distributing accounts & campaigns
    • Oversees campaign lifecycle, ensuring teams are following established workflow process and communication protocols
    • Act as key lead on surfacing recommendations to improve or iterate on business processes and data/file hygiene for broader team
    • Develop relationships with APEX’s Agency Account Leads, Account Management Team, and/or Cross-Channel activation leads
    • Contributes to Strategy or Activation as needed for new business or high-touch and PACT accounts
    • Demonstrates ownership of agency relationships and actively solicits feedback on opportunities for service or capabilities improvements including both presenting & driving adoption of APEX Solutions
    • Maintain strong agency peer relationships with counterparts for escalation and troubleshooting
      

Qualifications

• Qualifications
  • 5-7 years of experience with knowledge of digital media is critical for success in this role
  • Experience working across a variety of digital channels with digital audio experience (streaming and podcasts) being a plus
  • Ability to work across multiple accounts at once across various verticals i.e. pharma, auto, QSR, retail
  • Extensive Prisma experience is required
  • Diverse backgrounds and experience are welcome including Agency Planning/Investment, Media Sales, Consulting and/or Media Client Side
  • Knowledge of Salesforce, MBOX and MS Office Suite (must be proficient in Excel)
  • Strong media financial acumen is mandatory
  • Business financial acumen is preferred
  • Understanding of the media landscape
    

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected]. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $97,375.00 - $155,961.00 USD Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 2/15/2026.