Media Strategist
Kargo
Who We Are
Kargo creates powerful moments of connection between brands and consumers to build businesses. Every day, our 600+ employees work to radically raise the bar on what agentic AI, CTV, eCommerce, social, and mobile can do to deliver unique ad experiences across the world’s most premium platforms. Taking a creative science approach to all we do, we continuously innovate solutions that outperform industry benchmarks and client expectations. Now 20+ years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland.
Who We Hire
Techies who want to build the future. Creatives who want to design it better. Communicators to win business. Collaborators to build it. Data pros who turn numbers into insights. Product builders who turn ideas into innovations. Anyone eager to be on a team that doesn’t stop to ask what’s next, because they’re already building it.
Our Laurels
- AdAge Best Places to Work
- ThinkLA Partner of the Year
- Built In Best Places to Work
- Cynopsis 2025 Top Women in Media - Jeannine Shao Collins
- Martech Breakthrough Awards - Best Overall Adtech Company
- Digiday Media Awards Best Event
- Cynopsis Media Impact Awards-Best CTV Platform
- Martech Breakthrough Awards-CTV Innovation
- Adweek Media Plan of the Year Awards - Best Use of Insights
Title:
Job Type: Full-time; 4 Days In Office, Mandatory Mondays
Job Location: New York, NY
Salary Range: $70,000 - $79,000 (On Target Earning)
The Opportunity
This person will be responsible for developing inspiring, innovative, and strategic digital marketing plans for top tier advertisers along with providing support for client’s day to day needs to ensure expected delivery and client satisfaction. You must have a finger on the pulse of the industry and its competitive trends, be forward thinking and not afraid to voice suggestions and propositions. You have some experience in the advertising space and are looking to be a strong individual contributor among a team of driven strategic professionals.
The Daily To-Do
- Work under the direction of the Senior Manager, Media Strategy to enhance and further develop the overall design of the Kargo’s sales materials
- Partner with front-line sales to conceptualize, write and present (internally) strategic marketing proposals in response to Advertiser RFPs, including creative brainstorms to come up with original, inspiring ideas that meet advertiser’s objectives and leverage our best assets
- Design strategic learning agendas for top tier clients, leveraging knowledge of third party research vendors
- Maintain working knowledge of clients’ business including performance with Kargo, competitive set, revenue reports, upcoming releases, and KPIs. Ability to analyze data and make recommendations – a must.
- Proactively create collateral to entice advertisers and generate leads
- Leverage your PPT/ Google Slides expertise and presentation-development skills to deliver comprehensive, strategic, and exciting pitch decks and presentations
- Work with Design to create sales comps (no knowledge of design tools needed), and Research to craft compelling data-driven stories
- Act as a sales product gate-keeper by understanding all of the functionality and best practices for each product we sell; package knowledge into sales materials and communicate information clearly to front-line team and Advertisers
- Manage a docket of creative design tickets for brand new ads for your book of business (no knowledge of design tools needed)
- Find ways to contribute to the overall success and further education of the Media Strategy team
Qualifications
- 2-3 years of experience, preferably in ad tech, an ad agency, an SSP/DSP, etc
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or internship experience
- Interest in media, technologies, and a desire to keep informed of new trends
- Experience with Photoshop preferred
- Proficient in MS PowerPoint and Excel and all other MS Office Tools is a must!
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Professional maturity, integrity, discipline and a positive attitude
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work on your own as part of a distributed team
- Understanding of online advertising
- Understanding of media math, strong basic math skill set
- Highly creative and strategic; proactive; strong organizational skills; effective communicator
- Self-motivator with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and tight deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to think outside the box and take initiative in order to solve problems as they arise
- Ability to prioritize projects with varying deadlines and degrees of difficulty
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