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Company Description
Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT - Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions - to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients' brands, and to buy more products and services from them.
Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world's best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.
With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry's best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today's challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.
Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.
Overview
Employer: Starcom Mediavest Group, Inc.
Job Title: Manager, Performance
Job Requisition: 6630.6716.3
Job Location: 35 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601. Required to work from Company Office (Chicago, IL) certain days per week. Telecommuting allowed for balance of week.
Job Type: Full Time
Rate of Pay: $97,906 per year
Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon, but not limited to, the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws.
Responsibilities
Duties: Employ search marketing tactics to increase visibility and engagement with content, products, or services in Internet-enabled devices or interfaces. Responsible for leading campaign planning, activation, optimization, and reporting. Apply social mastery to deliver against the client(s) goals, while working for the development and communication of all strategy while owning tactical execution. Responsible for day-to-day management of the Social Analyst, including both project management to ensure timely delivery of tasks and career development. Maintain oversight of budget and billing activity (pacing, Prisma management, draft billing, accuracy of budgets vs. strategy flowcharts). Lead client relationship with day-to-day contact and partner agencies (where applicable) by ensuring a seamless communication process. Plans campaign in tandem with creative agency teams with upcoming needs to deliver on the approved plan. Approve all budgets prior to launch and ensuring they match to flowchart. Contribute to accounting strategy including annual budget development, KPIs, partner selection, new tactics, and tracking industry developments. Gather the research and data needed to formulate tactical plan development and recommendation for client delivery. Lead client relationship with day-to-day contact and partner agencies (where applicable) by ensuring a seamless communication process. Provide direction to Analyst(s) to conduct research necessary to build a new campaign. Oversee Analyst(s) management of campaign budgets, pacing, and bid adjustments. Develop and recommend optimizations and/or testing plans. Pull data and research components needed for new business pitches. Contribute to development of agency level POVs on industry happenings.
Qualifications
Requirements: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Marketing or a related field followed by three years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or three years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained. Experience must include three years of experience in each of the following:
1. MS Excel functions (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, data visualization) applied in an agency environment.
2. Determine recommendations based on strategic campaign insights.
3. Create, actualize, and approve buys on Prisma to match internal MBD.
4. Align measurement efforts across platforms with learning agenda using Brand Lift study questions and 3rd party measurement partners.
5. Social platforms Certifications (Twitter Flight School (X), Facebook Blueprint, Pinterest Media buying, and Snapchat Media buying).
6. Meta Certified Media Buying Professional.
Required to work from Company Office (Chicago, IL) certain days per week. Telecommuting allowed for balance of week.
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 USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: USD $ - . This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. 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 2/9/2026.