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Are you curious by nature? Do you always seek to understand human behaviors in your everyday life? Do you believe strategic communications can help make the world a better place? Do you enjoy combining data, creativity, and technology to solve complex marketing challenges? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and want to help shape innovative media strategies for some of the world's leading B2B brands? If so, Edelman is looking for you to join our team!

The Senior Associate, Paid Media will participate in developing and delivering integrated paid media strategies and activation across a diverse range of digital channels. This role will support planning, execution, optimization, and reporting across paid social, programmatic, publisher-direct, and digital video campaigns. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer-focused, team-oriented, and able to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. This role requires a highly collaborative individual who uses data-enabled problem-solving capabilities to deliver flawless campaign execution and drive measurable business outcomes.

Your potential coming to life: Joining our team means you will...

• Execute andoptimizecampaigns across multiple digital media channels including LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, programmatic display, online video (OLV), YouTube, and publisher-direct placements

• Manage campaign creation, forecasting, budgeting, pacing, testing, and optimization to achieve clientobjectivesand KPIs

• Support integrated media planning efforts across awareness, engagement, demand generation, lead generation, and account-based marketing (ABM) initiatives

• Ensure campaign performance across multiple B2B client accountsmeetsbusiness goals and success metrics

• Produce and interpret high-quality performance reports toprovideactionable insights, recommendations, and strategic guidance

• Analyze cross-channel campaign and content performance toidentifyaudience trends, creative learnings, and optimization opportunities

• Act as day-to-day contact for clients and/or Account Leadsregardingpaid media strategy, execution, and performance

• Provide strategic direction and input for media plans, audience strategies, channel recommendations, and measurement frameworks

• Build andmaintainrelationships with key vendors, platforms, publishers, and technology partners

• Monitor emerging trends across paid media, social platforms, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing to improve campaign performance and recommend innovative solutions

• Collaborate cross-functionally with digital, analytics, creative, account, and strategy teams to develop integrated client solutions

• Assistwith assessments, recommendations, and strategic support for new business opportunities

• Develop integrated cross-channel strategies that align media investments with client business objectives

• Maintain a deep understanding of Edelman capabilities, industry trends, and client businesses

• Be accountable for the success of cross-channel client campaigns from planning through reporting

• Execute all aspects of campaign management processes including campaign strategy, audience targeting, tagging recommendations, platform setup, delivery management (pacing, budget, spend, invoice tracking), analysis, and reporting

Qualified candidates have most, if not all, of the following...

• 3+ years of digital media experience across paid social, programmatic, digital video, and/or search campaigns

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred

• Experienceplanning, recommending, and implementing strategic paid media campaigns across platforms such as LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, Google Ads, YouTube, DV360, The Trade Desk, and other digital advertising platforms

• Experience developing integrated digital communications and marketing plans for B2B organizations, with a strong understanding of media strategy, evolving digital trends, and full-funnel marketing initiatives including brand awareness, audience engagement, demand generation, lead generation, and account-based marketing (ABM) programs.

• Proventrack recordanalyzing paid media campaign performance and developing and implementing optimization recommendations

• Understanding of audience targeting, measurement frameworks, attribution methodologies, and media analytics

• Relevant experience in marketing, advertising,communicationsor digital media

• Strong research, writing,editingand client interaction skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment whilemaintainingattention to detail

The team is here for you:

• Our team currently includes ...

• Fun first attitudes- becausewhat'sthe point of doinggreat workifaren'thaving fun?

• Career pathing on the mind- whether you plan to stay for 2 years or 20 years we put your development and career goals as a priority

• Open space floor plan community- the best research happens with collaboration and sometimes that includes input from our non-research co-workers

• Broader communications exposure- you will get the opportunity to work alongside broader Edelman teams such asCorporate ,Brand, Digital, Assembly, and more

• Open minds fornew ideasand methodologies-maybe it'snot broken, but thatdoesn'tmean wecan'tmake it better

• Level agnostic-doesn'tmatter if you are the boss or an intern, we are all in this together

• Global Reach- we have researchers you can tap into around the world

$60,000 - $76,000 per year

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