Jobs

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Net Natives offers global career opportunities in a wide range of specializations.

Most of our roles are in Brighton (UK), but we also have offices and careers based in New York City, Changsha (China), London (UK) and Portsmouth (UK).

So take a look at our vacancies and see if any of them suit you. If they don’t, but you think you’d be a good fit, send us your resume anyway and maybe we can find a place for you.

Current Roles

Here are our open vacancies.

Head of Campaign Strategy - US

We’re looking for a creative and data-driven senior Head of Campaign Strategy to lead our Campaigns and Planning team here in New York. The role is based in our NYC office and you’ll be the lead for the strategy and implementation for delivering successful, award-winning campaigns that generate results for our university and college clients.

The Head of Campaigns is responsible for the strategy and day to day function of the campaign and media planning team at Net Natives. The team is responsible for delivering creative, innovative media plans that deliver fantastic outcomes for our clients, as well as making the campaigns as successful as possible.

Our media plans are brave, bold, creative, and deliver on results. We are looking for an innovative, experienced Head of Campaign Strategy who can instill creativity in all forms of media, and challenge our clients to think differently about how they approach their advertising strategies. Attention, Emotion, and Action are key to structuring our campaigns, and the Head of Campaign Strategy will pioneer data partnerships, and innovative solutions to make this happen.

Leading the strategy while managing day to day operational clients. This role does both. We are looking for a strategic advertiser who also has a keen attention to detail to provide the best quality service to our clients, leading by example for the rest of the media planning team.

As an award-winning creative marketing agency, you’ll be leading on getting maximum impact for our wins - supporting both client renewals and new business pitches.

The ideal new member of our team will be creative (both in terms of media and with great ideas for new ways to reach the student audience), organized, independent, a great communicator and loves measuring the success of their work (we’re data geeks here). You’ll have over 6 years of experience in Media Planning and 4 years in Creative campaign strategy. You may already have worked in, or have knowledge or passion for the education sector.

With 10 staff based in our NYC office (in Brooklyn), this role will lead on our Campaigns and Planning function (4 full-time staff).

To apply, submit your cover letter and resume to Murray Simpson, Chief Growth Officer, at murray.simpson@netnatives.com

Candidates that fail to submit a cover letter alongside a resume won't be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Strategic Direction

• Innovating new media and channels to include in campaign plans (including being the main point of contact and source for new media channels).
• Being the point of contact for our media partners in the US. Digital (Search, Social, Display) and Offline (Out of Home, Press, Radio etc).
• Proactively sourcing new partners and agreeing on effective partnerships.
• Embedding Creative and Content into every plan we do. This includes content themes and ideas, and generally approaching media plans with a ‘content first’ mentality.
• Ensuring the team are providing expert consultancy and advice that goes beyond just CPC’s and CPM’s, focusing on Lead and Applicant Quality and cost of acquisition, as well as creative performance and observations across all channels.
2) Retaining, Growing and Winning Clients

• Contribute to RFP’s and new business pitches, with innovative creative & media campaign strategies
• Tracking and reviewing client satisfaction on campaigns and service levels, and producing solutions and mitigations to ensure client satisfaction and renewal.
• Producing strategies to increase client spend on creative and media, seeing marked growth in this across the client portfolio.
• Presenting quarterly to all of our clients on new advertising and creative innovations, both in and out of the education sector.

3) Client/Campaign Management

• Interrogate briefs
• Creating new projects
• Research (using research tools and pre-existing data)
• Media Plan Creation / Amends
• Media Plan QA
• Creative Quote Creation
• Ad Ops Quote Creation
• Strategy Proposal / Rationale Creation
• Manage the entire creative process - review/feedback
• Bi-weekly calls with clients
• Review campaign performance
• Review lead quality metrics
• Add expert insights
• Write additional commentary
• Contribute to RFPs
• RFP Pitches
• Reviewing Creative assets and strategies

4) Team Management

• Weekly 1-1s with individual team members
• Set individual team objectives and ensure the team is delivering on these
• Resourcing - determine who manages new media plans
• Manage active media plans (capacity)
• Training (leading training sessions and facilitating training with SMEs)
• Provide training to AMs/ADs on wider team process
• Point of escalation

5) Wider Process Management
• Liaise with other Heads of the department to fine-tune new processes

Knowledge, skills, qualifications and experience

• 6+ years of experience in Media Planning / Buying
• 4+ years of experience in Creative / Content Marketing
• Proficiency and qualifications in running and managing campaigns in Google, Facebook, and other forms of digital media.
• Management Experience
• Proven track record and examples of innovative, creative marketing campaigns, preferably in the education sector, but other sectors where purchases are a significant investment.

The job holder is required to demonstrate appropriate behaviours aligned to our values - Accountable, Brave and Curious.

Benefits

As well as a unique working environment we also treat our staff to 25 paid vacation days, birthdays off, and numerous other benefits throughout your time with the company! Our office is located in a WeWork which provides a flexible office throughout your workday. At Net Natives, you will begin your career with a six-month probation period to start. If you are able to pass your probation, you are rewarded with a week's trip to our company headquarters in lovely Brighton, England.

Here at Net Natives, we take care of your career. Personal development is at our core and everyone has a tailored progression path designed to suit them. Net Natives are committed to nurturing diversity throughout our agency and are recognized as a Stonewall Diversity Champion.