Vice President, Paid Media - Account Management

Company description

Dysrupt is a performance marketing agency specializing in turning signal into scale through disciplined media buying, data-driven experimentation, and creative that is designed to perform. With deep expertise across digital, Dysrupt helps brands acquire customers efficiently while building durable demand. Born from social and built for growth, Dysrupt partners with ambitious teams to drive measurable results at every stage of the funnel.

Overview

Dysrupt is looking for a Vice President, Paid Media to lead a complex, high-volume client engagement with a strong emphasis on Meta platform expertise, performance media, measurement, client leadership, team development, and operational rigor. This leader will combine strategic perspective with hands-on platform fluency, helping the team translate technical media details into clear business implications while building trust with clients and integrated agency partners.

About the Role

As Vice President, Paid Media, you will own senior client leadership, media strategy, team oversight, and operational delivery for a sophisticated paid media business. You will lead and develop a team of approximately eight people, directly and indirectly, while ensuring work is accurate, articulate, organized, and aligned to client expectations. You will also help integrate on-platform work with the broader Agency Global organization, creating consistent processes, reporting cadences, and ways of working across US and global teams.

Responsibilities

• Platform and Performance Media Leadership: Bring deep, hands-on knowledge of biddable and performance media platforms. Translate platform nuances, lower-funnel considerations, and technical details into clear strategic guidance and broader business implications for clients and teams.
• Measurement and Testing: Guide measurement strategy across incrementality, attribution, audience splits, lift studies, and test design. Help bridge media and marketing data science teams by shaping test plans, interpreting results, and connecting findings to media decisions.
• Client Partnership and Education: Serve as a trusted senior advisor who builds client confidence through clear, accurate, and thoughtful communication. Educate client stakeholders on media, platform, and measurement concepts, and ensure planning materials, recommendations, and written communications meet a high standard.
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead a large, high-volume team with a strong focus on day-to-day management, coaching, growth and development, accountability, and retention. Mentor developing managers and provide hands-on support where needed.
• Quality and Detail Oversight: Establish strong quality-control practices across emails, platform deliverables, planning materials, reporting, and client recommendations. Bring exceptional organization and next-level attention to detail.
• Project and Process Management: Drive timelines, clarify ownership, ensure work is completed, and proactively manage dependencies and risks. Assess existing processes and partner with clients and internal teams to refine and improve ways of working.
• Scope and Expectation Management: Manage evolving client requests and changing business needs. Set realistic expectations, identify trade-offs, and confidently push back when requests are not sustainable or fall outside agreed priorities.
• Global and Cross-Agency Integration: Help align the on-platform team with US off-platform, global off-platform, Global agency, and other partner teams. Build consistent reporting cadences, operating processes, and collaboration models across markets and disciplines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Analytics, Marketing Data Science, Strategy, Creative, Operations, and Finance to connect media execution with measurement, client goals, staffing, and commercial realities.
• Operational Leadership: Create structure in a fast-moving environment, manage a high volume of work, surface issues early, and help the broader team operate with clarity, consistency, and discipline.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of paid media experience, with deep expertise in paid social, biddable media, and performance marketing; strong Meta platform experience is needed.
• Proven hands-on comfort within media platforms and the ability to connect platform-level details to full-funnel strategy and business outcomes.
• Advanced understanding of measurement, including incrementality, attribution, audience splits, lift studies, test design, and interpretation of results.
• 4+ years of people-management experience, including leadership of large teams and development of emerging managers.
• Demonstrated success managing high volumes of work and complex, multi-stakeholder client engagements.
• Strong client leadership skills with a proven track record of relationship building, client satisfaction, expectation management, and confident senior-level communication.
• Exceptional project-management, process-improvement, organizational, and quality-control capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate across US and global teams and build alignment across media, analytics, data science, and agency partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and accurately.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, making sound decisions, and pushing back constructively when necessary.
• Ability to work East Coast hours, with flexibility to support early meetings and collaboration with London-based partners when required.

Who You Are

• A hands-on media leader who can move comfortably between platform detail and executive-level strategy.
• A trusted client partner who communicates with clarity, accuracy, confidence, and sound judgment.
• A strong people leader who develops talent, supports managers, and creates accountability across a large team.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the discipline to maintain quality across a demanding workload.
• A pragmatic operator who improves processes, drives timelines, and creates consistency across integrated teams.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions, managing trade-offs, and setting boundaries in a constructive way.
• A collaborative leader who can strengthen integration across Dysrupt, US, and global teams.

Why Dysrupt

At Dysrupt, we do not do business as usual. We are a performance-first agency with a passion for challenging the status quo, helping brands grow fast, and building a culture where smart, curious people do their best work. If that sounds like your kind of place, we would love to hear from you.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

Compensation Range: USD $149,340.00 - USD $239,148.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/24/2026.