Associate Director, Media Investment (LATAM)

Tombras, a 450 person, full-service, national advertising agency with a digital mindset, is seeking an Associate Director of Media Investment (LATAM).

You’ll be joining one of the top independent agencies in North America. Connecting Data & Creativity for Business Results® is working for our clients and creating a flywheel affect fueling both client and agency growth. You’ll be a part of a highly creative agency that has been recognized by AdAge, Adweek, Communication Arts, Fast Company, Forbes and Fortune. Tombras was recently named 2025 AdAge Agency of the year and 2024 AdAge Independent Agency of the Year.

We’re looking for a highly skilled, execution-minded Associate Director of Media Investment (LATAM) to join the Media team at Tombras — a group that blends strategy, activation, and analytics to deliver measurable business outcomes.

This role is ideal for a hands-on media operator and team leader who thrives at the intersection of performance, process, and people. You will play a critical role in ensuring media investments are executed with precision, aligned to strategy, and optimized for performance across a dynamic, globally integrated team.

As part of the agency’s growing Media practice, you will lead and direct a team of media buyers based in Latin America, ensuring seamless alignment with U.S.-based strategy and delivering consistent, high-quality execution across accounts. You will serve as a key integration point between regions, translating strategic intent into execution and performance into actionable insight.

Where you'll be working: Knoxville. Relocation assistance may be provided.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead day-to-day media investment oversight across assigned accounts, ensuring campaigns are executed accurately, efficiently, and in alignment with strategic intent
• Serve as the operational bridge between strategy and activation, translating media plans into clear executional direction for investment teams
• Own performance accountability for paid social channels (Meta, TikTok), including setup, optimization frameworks, pacing, and in-flight decisioning
• Provide oversight across programmatic channels (DV360, Amazon DSP), ensuring consistency in approach and quality of execution
• Manage and mentor a distributed team of media buyers, driving consistency, accountability, and continuous improvement in output
• Interpret campaign performance and translate it into clear, actionable insights for internal stakeholders and strategy teams
• Establish and refine processes that improve speed, accuracy, and scalability of media activation
• Act as a quality control layer across all investment outputs, ensuring campaigns meet Tombras’ standards for excellence
• Partner closely with Media Strategy, Analytics, and Creative teams to ensure seamless execution across the full media lifecycle
• Drive operational clarity in a fast-paced environment, making decisions quickly while maintaining rigor and attention to detail
  
  

What You Bring

• 6 years of hands-on media buying experience, with deep expertise in paid social (Meta, TikTok)
• Strong working knowledge of programmatic platforms (DV360, Amazon DSP) and their role within a broader media mix
• Proven ability to manage and develop high-performing teams, including experience working across distributed or global teams
• Demonstrated experience translating strategy into execution, ensuring plans are implemented effectively and efficiently
• Strong analytical fluency, with the ability to interpret performance data and guide optimization decisions
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate performance, challenges, and opportunities to cross-functional teams
• High level of operational discipline, with a focus on process, accuracy, and executional excellence
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity
• Professional fluency in both English and Spanish is required
• Experience working with or leading teams based in Latin America strongly preferred
  
  

Why You'll Want To Work At Tombras

• Family - It comes first, on every list. Tombras has been family-run since day 1, we strive to facilitate a family-oriented environment rooted in supporting one another.
• Dog-friendly offices
• Flexible PTO
• Generous parental leave for primary and non-primary caregivers
• Medical (PPO or High Deductible option) for employee dependents
• 401(k) Participation
• Employer-paid Dental & Vision
• A company culture of promotions from within and an atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development.
  
  

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Tombras is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Job may require traveling overnight, driving long distances as required and sitting for extended periods of time with occasional walking and standing and occasionally lifting or carrying articles weighing less than 10 pounds.

Remote employees must be based in the United States.