Media Planning Associate

We are seeking an experienced Paid Media Audience Strategy & Data Architecture Lead to drive audience planning, activation strategy, and data-enabled marketing initiatives across the paid media ecosystem. This role combines strategic audience development with data architecture expertise, helping the organization identify, prioritize, and activate audiences that drive business outcomes. The successful candidate will lead the development of audience frameworks that answer key strategic questions: Who should we target? When should we engage them? Where should we reach them? Why are they valuable? Working closely with Marketing, Analytics, Data Science, Media, and Technology teams, this individual will translate customer insights and business goals into scalable audience strategies while ensuring data is appropriately integrated, governed, and activated across MarTech and AdTech platforms. The ideal candidate is a strategic audience expert who understands how to combine customer insights, first-party data, and marketing technology to develop effective targeting strategies. They can define who to target, when to engage them, where to activate them, and why they matter, while partnering across teams to operationalize those strategies and drive measurable business outcomes. Responsibilities: Audience Strategy & Planning: Develop audience strategies that support customer acquisition, cross-sell, engagement, and retention objectives, define target audience frameworks using customer behavior, lifecycle stage, demographics, transactional data, and behavioral signals, determine the optimal timing, channel, and messaging approach for audience engagement, partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value audience opportunities aligned with strategic priorities and establish audience selection methodologies, segmentation standards, and measurement frameworks. Customer Insights & Audi

The Programmatic Media Group Manager is a highly experienced and influential leader responsible for shaping, executing, and optimizing Citi's programmatic media investments, specifically leading Citi’s programmatic media team. This pivotal role requires over 10 years of progressive experience, demonstrating expert-level, hands-on proficiency in leading media activation platforms, coupled with strategic oversight of technical implementations, advanced optimization methodologies, and rigorous analysis of performance and quality metrics. The incumbent will lead a hands-on-keyboard team, safeguarding Citi’s brand while driving significant business outcomes, managing and mentoring programmatic professionals, and ensuring robust governance and operational excellence. Reporting into the Head of Media Transformation and AdTech, this role is essential in influencing both Citi’s internal approach and the broader industry ecosystem through best-in-class strategic technology partnerships, positioning Citi at the forefront of a privacy-first, opt-in advertising experience. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing in-house team of programmatic media analysts and coordinators. Oversee day-to-day operations, foster a culture of continuous learning, ensure high performance, and facilitate career growth for team members. Experience building and scaling an in-house programmatic media team is a significant plus. Advanced Platform Strategy & Execution: Define and lead Citi’s future-proof platform capabilities strategy, identifying, evaluating, and implementing best-in-class solutions for media activation, sophisticated optimization, and robust measurement. Maintain expert-level, hands-on proficiency in leading programmatic buying platforms, including non-negotiable expertise in DV360, to guide advanced campaign architecture, intricate bid strategies, and complex opti

The Programmatic Campaign Analyst is a skilled and diligent individual contributor responsible for the execution, optimization, and reporting of Citi's programmatic media investments within an in-house programmatic media team. This role requires 2-5 years of progressive experience, demonstrating strong hands-on proficiency in media activation platforms, coupled with analytical skills to support optimization efforts and assist in the analysis of performance and quality metrics. The incumbent will focus on day-to-day campaign management, safeguarding Citi’s brand while contributing to business outcomes, and supporting the Senior Programmatic Campaign Manager in ensuring operational excellence. Reporting into the Group Manager, Lead Programmatic Media Strategist, this role is essential in executing against Citi’s internal approach and contributing to the effective use of strategic technology partnerships. Key Responsibilities: Programmatic Campaign Execution & Optimization: Execute and optimize programmatic media campaigns across various platforms, ensuring adherence to strategic objectives. Maintain strong hands-on proficiency in leading programmatic buying platforms, including DV360, to implement campaign architecture, bid strategies, and optimization techniques. Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Monitor campaign performance daily, identify trends, and assist in the analysis of programmatic metrics, including basic supply path optimization and media quality indicators. Generate regular performance reports and provide initial insights and recommendations. Platform & Tool Utilization: Utilize various AdTech/MarTech tools for campaign setup, trafficking, tracking, and reporting. Assist in the evaluation of new media solutions and features. Vendor Communication Support: Support the Senior Programmatic Campaign Manager in day-to-day communication with core programmatic vendors and technolog

We are seeking an accomplished and highly strategic Group Manager, Ad Trafficking & Operations, with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in digital ad operations, including significant leadership and team management responsibilities. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned expert in ad serving technologies, particularly Google Campaign Manager 360 (CM360), and will possess a deep understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem. This role requires exceptional leadership skills to manage and mentor a team of Ad Trafficking Coordinators and Managers, drive operational efficiencies, ensure flawless campaign execution, and contribute to the strategic evolution of our ad operations capabilities. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Department Oversight: Develop and implement strategic roadmaps for the Ad Trafficking and Operations department, aligning with overall company objectives and client needs. Lead and manage a group of Ad Trafficking Coordinators and Managers, fostering a high-performance culture, continuous improvement, and professional development. Oversee the entire ad trafficking workflow, from campaign setup to reporting, ensuring adherence to best practices, quality standards, and service level agreements (SLAs). Evaluate and recommend new ad tech solutions, tools, and processes to enhance operational efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Operational Excellence & Process Optimization: Drive the standardization and optimization of ad trafficking processes, naming conventions, and quality assurance protocols across the group. Implement robust pre-launch and post-launch QA strategies to minimize errors and ensure impeccable campaign execution and data integrity. Champion the adoption of automation and innovative solutions to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort. Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the team, driving accountability and continuous perfo

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Analyst, Media Planning Overview The US Media Analyst assists with the development, execution, and measurement of integrated media campaigns across key business priorities, product launches, and audience segments. Reporting to the US Media Director, this role partners cross-functionally with Marketing, Finance, Product, Research, and Agency teams to ensure campaigns are delivered with operational excellence. The Analyst works closely with the media agency to oversee campaign setup, execution, optimization, and reporting, helping drive effective and efficient media investments. This is an exciting opportunity for a media professional looking to expand their executional expertise while contributing to the growth of a high-profile brand and business in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Role: Campaign Management • Support U.S. media team in planning and execution of integrated media campaigns across digital, social, video, search, programmatic, CTV and emerging channels. • Track campaign launches and ensure flawless execution. • Assist with planning deliverables, including audience sizing, channel mix, partner consideration set, budget allocation, timelines, and approvals across internal and external partners. • Work closely with the cross-functional marketing and product team

About the Team The Integrated Marketing team sits at the center of product, brand, creative, media, research, and GTM work. We partner closely with PMM, Product, Developer Relations, Design, Comms, and agency teams to shape launches and campaigns that are clear, distinctive, and grounded in real audience insight. This is a growing function, so the team needs people who can both raise the quality of the work and build the operating model around it: bringing strong judgment, high agency, and trusted partnership to complex, visible moments. About the Role Developers and founders are building some of the most interesting things happening in AI. They’re starting companies, creating new products, and changing how people work. We’re looking for an integrated marketing manager who understands this audience and can shape how OpenAI shows up for developers, founders, startups, and engineering teams. That includes supporting campaigns around new products, creating meaningful developer experiences, and finding compelling ways to highlight the people and companies building with our technology. You’ll partner across Product, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Research, Brand, and Creative, along with external agencies and partners, to develop strategies and bring strong ideas to market. The right person understands technology, has good creative judgment, and knows how to turn audience insight into work that feels useful, credible, and worth paying attention to. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with three days a week in the office. In this role, you will: Support marketing strategies for developers, founders, startups, and engineering teams building with OpenAI, based on how technical audiences discover tools, evaluate them, and decide what to use. Partner with creative, media, and production agencies to develop briefs, evaluate concepts, improve the work, and bring campaigns to market. Establish agency relationships, campaign budgets, media planning, and paid me