What are the responsibilities and job description for the Media Manager position at Designsensory?
The Role
As a Media Manager at Designsensory, you’ll lead the charge on paid media—buying, planning, optimizing, and managing a portfolio of small to medium-sized accounts. You’re the person making sure campaigns launch on time, budgets make sense, and performance keeps improving.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll balance strategy with execution, working across both traditional and digital channels to deliver results that matter.
What You’ll Do
- Manage Your Portfolio: Oversee 6-8 accounts (depending on size and complexity), and manage smaller accounts mostly on your own, flagging up when you need support—whether it’s performance concerns, account team coordination, or content gaps
- Know Your Audiences: Stay current on what people actually care about and bring fresh ideas to the table
- Plan and Execute: Help develop and roll out media strategies across the full spectrum—TV, radio, print, OOH, paid social, paid search, programmatic display, and video
- Build and Launch: Get campaigns live on schedule and make sure they’re set up for success
- Monitor Performance: Keep spending on pace, track progress against goals, and jump on optimization opportunities before they become problems
- Stay In-Platform: Proactively tweak and improve media placements in-platform and through additional platforms
- Own the Details: Update and maintain media budgets and flowcharts across your client roster
- Report with Confidence: Prepare and present campaign performance and recommendations on your own or with integrated account teams
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with creative, strategy, and account teams to make sure everything comes together
- Show Up for Development: Participate in biweekly 1:1s and annual performance reviews
Who You Are
- Detail-Oriented: Highly organized with a sharp eye for detail
- Creative Strategist: You can collaborate very effectively with the creative team to represent platform trends, audience insights, and ad creative to find the most effective ad performance
- Experienced: Solid background in paid media, with hands-on experience building and managing campaigns in-platform
- Power Presenter: Strong presentation skills—you can tell the story behind the data. Proficient in Figma (or similar)
- Good Communicator: Great communicator, both written and verbal
- Task Switcher: Strong at managing time and switching between tasks without losing focus
- You Stay Sharp: Research what’s new in media—platforms, tech, trends—and share what you’re learning with the team
Qualifications
- Tools: Proficiency in Google Workspace, Figma, project management tools (like Asana or Monday.com), reporting tools, and individual media platforms.
- Experience: 1-3 years of experience in media planning and buying, ideally within a performance marketing or agency environment.
- Portfolio: A proven track record of ad campaigns that drove measurable results.
- Platform Knowledge: Deep familiarity with best practices for major ad platforms (character limits, “hook” structures, and policy restrictions)
Why Designsensory?
We are a research-driven, full-service agency that believes in the power of integrated thinking. We offer a collaborative environment where your voice (and your copy) actually matters. We value curiosity, transparency, and the drive to deliver work that doesn’t just look good—it works.