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Media Planning Associate in Canada

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $840K/yr

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ROLE: RETAIL MEDIA SEARCH MANAGER TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID ONSITE) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW We are seeking an experienced Retail Media Search Manager to lead strategy, execution, and team development across retail media platforms. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, and Amazon Ads — combined with the ability to lead a small team, own senior client relationships, and build the scalable playbooks that elevate how we work. A Skai Certification is required. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Team Leadership & Development Lead and mentor a team of 1–3 Retail Media Search Associates, providing day-to-day direction, performance feedback, and career development support. Set quality standards and review processes to ensure consistent, accurate campaign execution across all team accounts. Build onboarding materials, training guides, and optimization playbooks to scale team capabilities and reduce reliance on institutional knowledge. Identify skill gaps on the team and partner with leadership to address them through coaching, training, or resource development. Strategic Planning & Client Ownership Develop r

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $140K/yr

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ROLE: SENIOR MEDIA DIRECTOR TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID 2X/WEEK) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW As a Senior Media Director, you’ll set the strategic direction for how media investment is planned, bought, and optimized across CPG clients in North America. Operating at the intersection of media strategy and team leadership, you’ll ensure every plan is grounded in strong channel logic, sound investment principles, and a clear line to business outcomes. You’ll own cross-channel strategy and plan alignment across your portfolio, setting the optimization roadmap and reporting rhythm that keeps campaigns performing against KPIs. You’ll lead a team of media managers and directors — training them on tools and platforms, mentoring their growth, and ensuring the team’s segmentation and audience strategies stay sharp as channels evolve. You bring a senior media point of view that Account leads and clients rely on, and a team looks up to. You move fluidly between investment strategy and hands-on problem-solving, and you know how to translate performance data into a clear learning agenda for the whole team. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Media Planning & Buying Lead plan development and investment approach across your portfolio, ensuring every plan is gr

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $110K/yr

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ROLE: MEDIA ACTIVATION DIRECTOR TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW The Media Activation Director is a data-driven, insights-led media strategist and platform expert with hands-on analytics, reporting, and management experience. The best candidate for this role will be a natural collaborator with strong presentation, organizational, and strategic thinking skills. They have a strong comprehension of the media landscape and a proactive nature combined with a high level of attention to detail. In this role, you'll be on top of current and emerging trends in the world of digital media capabilities and tech offerings. You ideally come with a breadth of experience across clients from different verticals and will be responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and managing the overall media strategy for your clients with your team. In addition, you are responsible for managing, guiding, and training your team. The role will require the right candidate to be highly proficient in media planning, implementation, activation, optimization, reporting, and analysis. This includes understanding online user journey optimizations, a very solid understanding of Google Analytics (tracking and analysis), performance optimiza

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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POSITION DESCRIPTION Title: Manager, People & Culture Employer: Tracxtion Team: People & Culture Hybrid: 3 days in-office weekly Company Overview Tracxtion is a next-generation hybrid agency network built for the evolving landscape of customer experience and brand engagement. We help brands navigate a world where traditional media and marketing boundaries have blurred. By bringing together strategy, creativity, media, digital capabilities, and AI-enabled execution, Tracxtion delivers measurable results through a hybrid approach that combines exceptional human talent with cutting-edge tools and partnerships. From AI-powered advertising and content creation to media planning, experiential marketing, and in-store retail solutions, we partner with leading brands to create innovative, scalable, and impactful omnichannel experiences. Role Overview The Manager, People & Culture plays a critical role in delivering high-quality HR support and people programming across an assigned portfolio of 3 Traction Entities. Reporting to the Senior Director, People & Culture, this role combines strategic business partnership with hands-on execution. The Manager will support leaders, managers, and employees throughout the full employee lifecycle while contributing to broader People & Culture initiatives across the organization. This role carries entity-specific accountability and requires the Manager to develop a strong understanding of each assigned agency's business, culture, workforce, and people priorities. A key component of this role is HRIS ownership. The Manager will be accountable for data integrity, workflow configuration, process standardization, and system adoption within HiBob across their assigned entities. They will ensure the HRIS is not simply maintained but actively leveraged to improve people operations, reporting, and the overall employee experience. Core

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📍 Toronto, ON, Canada· Full-time
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Lead Industry Manager will manage the SMB Agency Sales Account Management business, responsible for revenue delivery and growth. They will lead a large vendor sales team in executing and operationalizing the strategy. What you’ll do: Drive retention and upsell across our 1K+ SMB agencies Retain and grow 7K+ managed advertisers Define the operational sales strategy by developing and standardizing operational systems to empower the SMB team to operate at scale Lead a high-performing team of sellers to deliver against quarterly revenue targets through effective planning, goal-setting, data analysis, and forecasting Manage relationship with Pinterest’s vendor partner Support team strategy for media planning, campaign management, media measurement and media channels (e-commerce, branding, formats and targeting) Motivate, m

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $60K/yr

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ROLE: MEDIA SPECIALIST TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO - HYBRID ONSITE 2X/WEEK COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW The Media Specialist will work across an exciting mix of clients in the CPG, Retail & Banking industries providing day to day support to the wider media team, with a focus on implementation and reporting. You will need to be highly proficient in media implementation, reporting and analysis. This includes a strong understanding of Social Media platforms, Google Analytics and Google Ad Words. You will need to develop strong trust-based relationships with both the client and agency team members. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Work directly with the Media Supervisor to heavily support implementation, optimization & reporting for all key clients Work directly with the Media Supervisor to assist with overall client planning & day to day client requests Work directly with all media vendors to book, implement and report on campaigns With direction from the Media Supervisor support the preparation, writing and presentation of integrated media plans, proposals and analysis that satisfy client objectives and that go beyond the brief Maintain stewardship and accountability of the media plan,

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $70K/yr

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ROLE: MEDIA ACCOUNT MANAGER TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID 2X/WEEK) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW As an Account Manager at Salt Media, you’ll take day-to-day ownership of client accounts or campaign workstreams, keeping delivery on track while building trusted relationships with client contacts. You’ll work closely with an Account Supervisor or Director to execute against the account strategy, translating plans into clear, well-managed execution. You’ll manage the moving pieces of a campaign or account — timelines, budgets, vendor coordination, and status reporting — while flagging risks early and keeping internal and client stakeholders informed. You’ll also start to build your own point of view on the account, contributing ideas for organic growth and supporting the planning behind key client moments like QBRs. You’re organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once. You communicate clearly, take ownership of your work, and are eager to grow your account management craft — building the judgment and client presence that will carry you toward an Account Supervisor role. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Project & Operational Management

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft Ads’ vision is to build the largest transportation media network. We leverage media to elevate the transportation experience for our users while building an exciting and sustainable advertising business. Our assets include Lyft in-app sponsorship opportunities, the largest bikeshare network in the country, off network audience programmatic solutions, as well as experiential activations. Our work is fun, challenging, and rewarding and we are looking for a customer-focused team member passionate about solving problems, delighting our agency partners, and winning new business. As a Senior Digital Account Executive for Lyft Media, you will be the primary point of contact for major advertising agencies and marketing clients. You will have discretion to shape the future of our growing media business while managing the day-to-day sales processes and relationships with advertising agencies. Responsibilities: Lead C Suite level conversations to increase revenue and grow strategic partnerships Demonstrate in-depth insights of the sales process and product combination Lead account planning process that aligns brand and Lyft’s resources to maximize opportunities Grow revenue, educate and lead strategic conversations with clients and navigate complex relationships Demonstrate expertise in all matters relevant to your book of business, including escalation and troubleshooting to resolve client issues Spearhead client education on products and give product updates to advise on the best approach to drive business outcomes for clients and agencies Lead collaboration with external clients and internal stakeholders Create compelling media packages and custom offerings to close new media business Build and manage sales pipelines while achieving quarterly revenue goals Work autonomously and independently to seek new

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $720K/yr

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ROLE: RETAIL SEARCH BUYER SPECIALIST TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID ONSITE) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW We are seeking an experienced Retail Search Buyer Specialist to manage and optimize paid search campaigns across retail media platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Walmart Connect, Roundel Media Studio and Amazon Ads sponsored product and sponsored brand advertising, along with deep knowledge of keyword strategy, campaign pacing, and reporting. A Skai Certification is required, demonstrating advanced skills in retail search management and optimization. RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Planning & Activation Develop retail media and growth plans tied to client goals and category trends. Build media and operational tactics based on those plans, launching campaigns across Walmart, Target, and Amazon. Campaign Execution & Optimization Lead hands-on campaign management: daily budget pacing, keyword bidding, placement adjustments, and bid-strategy refinements. Use consumer behaviour data and top-of-search tactics to refine paid search strategies. Reporting & Insights Delivery Deliver regular performance reporting—monthly, quarterly, and mid-year—highlighting key business trends and category influences.

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $100K/yr

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ROLE: Account Director TEAM: Accounts LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid) COMPANY OVERVIEW Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital, and media innovation. Our mission is to help clients, and their brands earn the world’s attention through our core philosophy of Connected Creativity - a cross-disciplinary, collaborative approach to ideation and planning that unlocks the power of different perspectives. This approach enables us to deliver new and effective solutions. Because the best results start with different ideas. ROLE OVERVIEW As an Account Director, you’ll lead a portfolio of integrated campaigns from strategy through execution, acting as the central driver of both client relationships and internal team performance. You’ll serve as the general manager of your business—owning delivery, growth, and team alignment across every touchpoint. You’ll oversee cross-functional teams, guiding the development of programs that are insight-led, creatively sharp, and built to perform. From setting the vision to briefing creative, managing timelines, and owning the budget, you’ll keep the work on track and the client confident in every step. This role is for a strategic thinker and hands-on leader. You know how to turn complexity into clarity and move ideas into action. You’re a strong communicator, a collaborative partner, and a steady force in a fast-moving environment. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Client Relations • Develop and deepen trusted client relationships, acting as a strategic advisor aligned to business goals and brand objectives. • Lead the development and execution of integrated marketing (IMC) programs, ensuring excellence from concept to delivery. • Maintain a strong understanding of the client’s business, industry landscape, and growth drivers. • Identify and pursue opportunities for organic account growth by proposing incremental programs and value-added services. • Provide strategic brand and business guidance t

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. About The Role & Team We’re looking for a Social Media Manager to join Amplitude’s Content Marketing team and help turn our ideas, insights, products, and point of view into content people actually want to engage with. You’ll play a key role in shaping Amplitude’s social presence across channels, working closely with content, brand, communications, product marketing, and subject-matter experts to create content that is timely, distinctive, and native to each platform. You’ll also support executive and thought-leadership content, helping our leaders show up authentically in the conversations shaping AI, analytics, and the future of product development. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who is equally comfortable developing a content idea, writing the post, collaborating on creative, and looking at the data to make the next one better. As a Socia

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $190.8K/yr

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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . The Media Experience team exists to empower users to discover, consume, and engage with the best media content on Reddit. We do that by making video consumption intuitive and engaging. Because video is a powerful medium for community connection, our goal is to ensure our video experience is best-in-class for every user. Our north star is growing video views and video users . These are users who consistently return to Reddit for the unique, authentic content that fuels our communities. Achieving this level of consistent engagement requires a product flywheel that surfaces the right video features, UI optimizations, and playback improvements at the right moment to accelerate organic engagement. We use data, Quality of Experience (QoE) signals, and rapid product experimentation to identify and resolve any friction preventing a seamless viewing experience. We move with urgency, instrument everything, and treat a missed engagement milestone as a signal to learn from, not a number to ignore. If you want to build iOS video experiences that measurably change the trajectory of tens of millions of users and improve the overall engagement of Reddit itself, this is your team. What you’ll do: 🚀 Drive the Technical Strategy for Media Engagement Lead the iOS architecture for user-facing features that boost video discovery and consumption. You’ll design and build immersive viewing surfaces and intuitive UI/UX flows that directly maximize watch time, user retention, and daily active video consumers. 🔬 Champion for User Experience With

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: SoFi is seeking a highly motivated, strategic, and detail-oriented Direct Mail Project Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, data-driven environment. This role is responsible for driving the operational execution of SoFi's Direct Mail program by partnering closely with Marketing Data Science Marketing Data Science with precision and efficiency. This is not a traditional project management role. Success requires someone who understands campaign strategy, can independently translate business discussions into actionable execution plans, exercises sound judgment in a fast-moving environment, and proactively identifies opportunities to improve how we operate as the Direct Mail program continues to scale. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable managing cross-functional initiatives, optimizing operational processes, leveraging AI-enabled workflows, and maintaining exceptional attention to detail across every stage of campaign execution. What you’ll do: This role owns four core areas of responsibility: Project Management of Campaign Execution Own end-to-end project management for monthly Direct Mail campaigns, serving as the primary project manager for all campaign-related data operations and ensuring schedules, mail matrix, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are executed on time. Partner

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📍 New York, NY or Los Angeles, Canada· Full-time
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From $120K/yr

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Small Girls PR is looking for a Director of Influencer and PR with 7-8+ years of experience to manage overarching strategy and client relationships, concept novel initiatives that drive social virality and press headlines, manage deliverables for integrated campaigns, as well as oversee a team of talented junior staffers. This role will work with a wide range of creative and innovative brands across food & beverage, wellness, consumer tech, and more There is no one-size-fits-all for an SGPR client which means your career will be further enriched with meaningful and diversified experience. We've taken on the main stage at CES, announced Esusu as one of the first Black-owned tech unicorns, cheered on the powerful women of the WNBA with a well known ticketing platform, helped pet owners communicate with their dogs through a psychic for Rover, and piloted influencer marketing programs for B2B brands. This team concepted “Ring’s Great Ghost Search,” a lighthearted campaign calling on consumers to capture ghosts on their home cameras. By enlisting Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and an array of comedic influencers to participate, the campaign drove mass awareness and broad positive sentiment across earned media and social channels. Note: This role can be based in either our NYC or LA office, working two days a week in the office on a hybrid schedule. How you’ll make an impact: Drive long-term strategy and create tentpole campaigns for a range of clients on both retrainer and project-based engagements. You’ll manage expectations and set goals, timelines, and deliverables, with responsibility for meeting or exceeding client KPIs - both qualitative and quantitative. Originate out-of-the-box ideas that strengthen client’s marketplace positioning and earn attention - whether through press placements or through earned talkability above and beyond paid influencer deliverables. Collaborate across disciplines to create and execute integrated campaigns. Based on the cl

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