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Red Bull

Manufactures and markets energy drinks

Manager Advertising Media

Performance & Paid MarketingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSanta Monica, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Five years of experience in integrated media planning, buying, and activation, with strong digital media expertise across planning, activation, measurement, and optimization.
  • Strong knowledge of YouTube and major social media platforms, including their advertising capabilities, measurement approaches, and role within an integrated media strategy.
  • Consumer or lifestyle brand advertising experience.
  • Ability to interpret media performance data, evaluate performance against benchmarks, identify actionable insights, and translate findings into effective media recommendations and solutions.
  • Ability to apply campaign learnings to ongoing optimization and future planning to improve media effectiveness against marketing priorities.
  • Media agency, partner, and vendor management skills.
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear narratives and communicate media insights, strategies, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
  • Ability to move work forward independently.
  • Ability to build collaborative relationships across internal teams, agency partners, and media platforms to deliver integrated campaigns and share knowledge.
  • Ability to simplify complex problems and develop actionable solutions.
  • Attention to detail and accuracy across media planning, campaign execution, reporting, budget management, and deliverables.
  • Understanding of and alignment with Red Bull culture and lifestyle.

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated media strategies for advertising campaigns in partnership with agency teams across media strategy, planning, buying, TV, connected TV, digital/programmatic, social, search, and out-of-home.
  • Manage day-to-day campaigns, including media optimization, budget management, and performance monitoring.
  • Analyze campaign performance against objectives and benchmarks, identify insights, and translate findings into media recommendations and solutions.
  • Translate campaign learnings into optimization strategies and future planning recommendations for current and upcoming campaigns.
  • Oversee in-house media planning and buying activities, ensuring accurate and rigorous execution.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally to integrate paid, owned, and earned media.
  • Ensure agencies provide post-campaign analyses and translate learnings into recommendations for future media plans.
  • Manage agency partners across media strategy, planning, buying, TV/video, programmatic, social, search, out-of-home, and retail/e-commerce to develop integrated plans.
  • Build relationships with agency and media platform partners, set expectations, and work together on solutions to improve campaign performance.
  • Monitor and optimize campaigns with agency partners, identifying insights and opportunities to strengthen media plans.
  • Collaborate with agency partners to develop, evaluate, and evolve campaign benchmarks.
  • Support the Senior Manager with annual media agency evaluations and media planning and buying reviews.
  • Maintain campaign media budgets and ensure accuracy across Finance and internal media management platforms.
  • Coordinate timely, accurate billing and reconciliation of media activities with agency partners.
  • Support the Senior Manager in setting annual budgets across campaigns and initiatives for business planning.
  • Oversee timely billing and reconciliation of in-house media activity.
  • Implement digital media best practices to deliver relevant, data-driven advertising campaigns, including advancing programmatic advertising.
  • Use audience, platform, and campaign performance data to improve targeting, media efficiency, and effectiveness while maintaining an audience-centric approach.
  • Maintain knowledge of digital media planning, activation, measurement, and optimization, especially across YouTube and social media platforms.
  • Identify and evaluate emerging media trends, technologies, capabilities, and partners, and determine how relevant opportunities can be incorporated into media strategies.
  • Ensure the Google Marketing Platform ad tech stack is leveraged across media planning, activation, and measurement.
  • Ensure compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act and other relevant U.S. advertising data privacy requirements.
  • Provide guidance on the continued evolution of in-house media buying practices.
  • Help build team expertise across programmatic, social, search, addressable TV, programmatic digital out-of-home, and radio.
  • Provide thought leadership and education to keep internal Advertising and Brand teams informed about the evolving media landscape.
  • Translate complex media topics, platform developments, and performance insights into clear narratives for internal stakeholders.
  • Create and facilitate media trainings as needed and share knowledge and learnings across teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Agency experience.

About the Company

Red Bull

Manufactures and markets energy drinks

Red Bull makes and markets energy drinks. It focuses on a signature global beverage and uses a distinct marketing strategy to build the brand. How it works: the drink combines ingredients such as caffeine and sugars (originally based on Krating Daeng) and is carbonated for Western palates, distributed worldwide through large-scale marketing, sponsorships, and events to boost sales. How it differs: it remains privately held by the founding families, avoiding public funding, and relies on a marketing-heavy approach—extreme-sports sponsorships, high-profile events, and a strong brand identity—rather than conventional product features alone. What it aims to do: maintain leadership in the energy-drink category, grow globally through branding and partnerships, and continue expanding its product line and presence without going public.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Salzburg, Austria
Founded
1984

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