Key Responsibilities
Growth & Business Development
Activation Subject Matter Expert: Serve as the cross-channel activation SME, designing media plans that scale client growth.
Revenue Expansion: Identify organic growth opportunities through cross-channel expansion, media audits, advanced testing frameworks, and tech integrations.
Proposal Innovation: Partner with Strategy and Data Science & Analytics (DS&A) teams to productize agentic-powered activation capabilities into market-leading client offerings.
Strategic Activation & Media Leadership
Strategy Partnership: Translate audience insights and investment strategies from Strategy and COE partners into tactical, high-performing campaign architectures.
Full-Funnel Ownership: Lead media execution and onboarding for new client engagements, presenting recommendations confidently to senior stakeholders.
Platform Mastery: Maintain deep expertise across the evolving ad-tech landscape to ensure activation strategies remain cutting-edge.
Team Leadership & Operations
Mentorship & Onboarding: Lead and mentor activation teams during the critical first 90 days of new client engagements, fostering a culture of curiosity, speed, and precision.
Operational Excellence: Establish and enforce campaign setup and optimization best practices across portfolio teams and new business pitches.
Tech Innovation: Serve as a key feedback partner for KIP (Kepler Intelligence Platform), shaping platform evolution to meet client needs.
What We’re Looking For
8–10+ years of digital media management experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role managing a multi-sector account with large-scale spend ($50M+). The Ideal candidate has B2B & ABM account experience.
Growth Mindset: Motivated by client partnerships, new business, and adept at showing clients how technical execution solves business challenges.
Channel Agnostic: Holistic media understanding across Social, Programmatic, Search, Video, Audio, and Direct IO. Ideal candidate has had 5+ years of experience managing campaigns across Google Ads (Pmax, DemandGen, Video, Search), Meta, & LinkedIn. Reddit & 6Sense DSP experience is preferred.
Strong Communicator: Ability to distill complex technical media strategy into clear growth narratives for C-suite executives.
Analytical Fluency: Familiarity with measurement models (MMM, MTA) to anchor activation strategies in verifiable data.
Transparency is fundamental to Kepler’s culture. Our compensation strategy is designed to attract, reward, and retain the talented employees that drive Kepler’s growth and success. We aim to offer competitive direct compensation and a rich indirect compensation program that demonstrates the value we place on our employees and their wellbeing.
Total Compensation
Base Salary: $140,000 - $160,000
Target Annualized Discretionary Bonus: 10% ($14,000 - $16,000)
Target Total Cash: $154,000 - $176,000
Benefits
Healthcare/Dental/Vision
Unlimited PTO
401k Contributions
$75/mo Wellness Stipend
$100/mo Mobile Phone Stipend
$50/mo Internet Stipend
$500/yr Annual Learning Stipend
$2,000/yr Annual Tuition Stipend
One-time $200 New Hire Home Office Equipment Stipend
Parental Leave - 16 week primary caregiver / 6 week secondary caregiver leave
Annual Work From Anywhere 4 weeks per year
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