Associate Director, Paid Media

About January Digital January Digital is the Marketing Leadership Company. We solve business challenges through media excellence, strategic guidance, and actionable analytics. Our agency team handles full funnel media planning, execution, and optimization while our consulting team offers true strategic leadership for building successful marketing agencies.

All our work is supported with a strong foundation of data and actionable insights which ensure our clients are as successful as possible. As a company, our motto is to build a company that improves the lives of our clients, our people, and the world around us. We support this mission through a number of efforts including our WORKS program.

Good Works is our philanthropy program that ensures we have an outsized impact on our surrounding communities through financial and volunteering efforts. Our Well Works program focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our employees through required minimum PTO, an annual wellness stipend, fully paid health care, fully paid counseling services, extended parental leave, and much more. Between our work and our culture, January Digital has been recognized more than 125 times, including being named a Best Place to Work by INC four times, Dallas Business Journal three times, one of Ad Age's Best Places to Work 2025 , a 2024 NRF Partner of the Year, a seven-time INC 5000 fastest growing company, and numerous awards for our tactical and strategic excellence with innovative partners like Carhartt and Kendra Scott.

Our Team is AI-enabled At January Digital, we combine deep expertise, creativity, and AI innovation to deliver meaningful results. Our team advances through continuous training that keeps us and our clients ahead. We seek candidates with proven AI skills in developing and refining AI inputs, effective use of key tools, and the ability to apply AI to real business challenges.

Equally important are sharp critical thinking and a commitment to using AI responsibly to create lasting impact.

About The Role

Team January Digital is looking to fill an Associate Director role for our agency team. This role requires a deep understanding across the digital media landscape and you will be most successful if you have had hands-on experience in multiple channels. You will be a key player in the strategic development of your client(s) digital media strategy and how it relates back to their business objectives.

An important part of this job is to be the main strategic partner with your client(s) to help guide, plan and develop current and future media planning and opportunities. Inside of JD, you will also have a role of managing a team and are held accountable for the functions within your agency team.

Responsibilities

Drive advancement of client's strategic objectives through meaningful thought leadership. Develop a deep understanding of each client’s business and leverage data to guide growth opportunities and reinforce the agency's strategic value. Build trust with clients by managing team deliverables, setting priorities, and overseeing flawless multi-channel tactical activation of marketing campaigns.

Lead strategic external relationship development across clients and identify optimal vendor partnerships. Lead account strategic vision through development and management of long term goals and client growth opportunities and ownership of complex deliverables including quarterly business reviews and annual multi-channel budget planning. Manage client communication needs across the team and strive to exceed client service expectations.

Lead a team of employees to success by providing thoughtful management, training in key areas, and fostering an environment for growth and development opportunities. Demonstrate thought leadership by identifying key industry changes evolutions, and emerging technology innovations to provide informed recommendations and propose solutions to clients proactively.