Paid Media Director

Introducing Realtime

Realtime is a global challenger agency that uses tech, innovation, and agility to out-punch the incumbents and bring real, effective change to the brands with which we work. Our motto is simple; “build cool s*** that wows”. To accomplish that, we lead the way with full-funnel strategic thinking, AI-backed advertising technology, and award-winning measurement strategies that take our brand partners to the next level.

Realtime is built for the AI era, and is backed by Pixis – the industry leader in AI advertising and creative tech that is trusted by thousands of brands and agencies globally. As part of the Pixis team, Realtime is the first-mover on the latest and greatest in AI adtech products and testing – and we take those advancements directly to our clients.

As part of the Realtime and Pixis team, candidates exploring opportunities with Realtime should expect to find a dynamic, uniquely positioned, and future-oriented organization that loves our people just as much as our clients.

What You’ll Do

Account Directors at Realtime have the opportunity to fully own their accounts and drive their own business forward. In practice, this looks like:

• Acting as primary point of contact for clients on a day-to-day basis – working closely with them to intimately understand their business, their goals, their teams, and how they function.
• Providing the core strategy, planning, and recommendations to further improve the paid advertising programs of your clients.
• Identifying opportunities for additional services or resources that help clients achieve their business goals and deliver the best possible work.
• Working alongside Realtime’s internal resourcing team to identify needs and gaps within existing account structure.
• Project managing across the entire team – ad operations, measurement, creative, etc. – to organize and execute around core advertising objectives while keeping the team aligned to the client’s “North Star” goals.
• Managing and presenting on regular and ad-hoc client calls
• Organizing internal touchbases and alignment points
• Deliver forecasting, upsell opportunities, and other revenue-oriented communications to agency leadership.

Who You Are

As an Account Director at Realtime, you’ll be an internal leader and play the most critical role on the account for your clients. To do this, you will have:

• Prior hands-on-keyboard advertising experience across paid social, paid search/shopping, and/or programmatic.
• A record of driving results and generating successful business outcomes for both your client and your previous organizations.
• A record of building and managing senior client relationships and the ability to connect with people in a business setting.
• Prior experience managing teams that include adops as well as account managers.
• An understanding of advanced measurement approaches and tools, inclusive of MMM and incrementality, that will help your clients better understand the connection between investment and performance.
• The ability to clearly and effectively articulate complicated and technical elements and results of advertising programs.
• A general understanding of other important components of advertising programs, including; measurement and attribution, creative/influencer, affiliate marketing, the relationship between organic and paid, etc.
• Experience building multi-channel media plans inclusive of both digital and traditional media buys.
• Experience working with direct publisher partnerships and building RFPs and corresponding workflows that specifically accomplish client needs.
• Experience leveraging analytics tools like Google Analytics, Adobe, or other site analytics.
• Strong prioritization and internal project management skills