[Hiring] Associate Director, Media & Analytics @Anchour

Role Description

We're hiring an Associate Director, Media & Analytics to lead our media team and own how some of our most important clients invest, measure, and grow. You'll build the media strategies, run the campaigns, and lead the conversations that help clients make better decisions. You'll personally manage a portfolio of 6–8 key accounts while developing the team and improving how the department works. Strategy, execution, and leadership are all central to the role.

We're looking for someone with a strong point of view and the experience to back it up. Someone who can sit across from a marketing leader, understand their business, and build a plan they believe in. Someone who enjoys getting into the accounts, finding opportunities, and turning good thinking into work that performs.

Anchour's clients and capabilities are growing. We're investing in a media leader who can help shape what comes next: stronger strategy, more useful analytics, better creative, and a team that keeps getting better.

You'll report to our VP of Growth and work closely with leadership, account, creative, web, and retention teams. You'll have real ownership of the work and a meaningful voice in where the practice goes.

What You'll Do

• Own media on key accounts. Lead strategy and hands-on execution for 6–8 important client relationships.
• Build the media plans. Translate business goals into clear investment strategies across the full funnel.
• Lead the client conversation. Run planning sessions, present recommendations, and guide performance discussions with senior marketing teams and business leaders.
• Make reporting matter. Build reports and presentations that tell a clear story about the business.
• Own measurement. Define what we need to measure and make sure we can trust it.
• Shape the creative that fuels performance. Give creative teams a clear brief and useful feedback.
• Develop the team. Manage and mentor our media practitioners.
• Build a better practice. Improve how we plan, launch, test, report, and collaborate.
• Keep the business of media running well. Maintain clear oversight of budgets, pacing, vendor commitments, and billing inputs.
• Help grow the department. Partner with leadership on pitches, proposals, client growth opportunities, and new capabilities.

Qualifications

• Deep paid media experience. You've managed meaningful budgets across multiple accounts and can point to results you personally helped deliver.
• Strategic range. You understand how brand and performance work together.
• Strong client presence. You're comfortable leading a room, presenting your thinking, and working through difficult questions.
• Analytics fluency. You're confident in GA4, Google Tag Manager, conversion tracking, and reporting tools.
• Real team leadership. You've managed or mentored media practitioners and helped improve their work.
• Creative instincts. You understand the role creative plays in media performance.
• A practical approach to building. You see opportunities to improve how work gets done and follow through on them.
• An active learning habit. You're testing tools, paying attention to changes in the industry, and using AI thoughtfully in your work.
• Experience across financial services, ecommerce, lead generation, CTV, or programmatic media is a plus.

Work Style

• You stay close to the work and take pride in the details.
• You bring recommendations and make decisions within your area of ownership.
• You communicate early, especially when something needs attention.
• You make collaboration easier by giving people clear direction and useful context.
• You're generous with your knowledge and open to having your thinking challenged.
• You care about the quality of the work and the people doing it.

The Opportunity

You'll have the chance to make a visible difference across the agency: in the confidence clients have in their plans, the quality of the work we deliver, and the growth of the people you lead. We have talented teammates, strong client relationships, and a growing set of tools and capabilities. We're looking for someone who sees the potential in that and wants to help take it further.