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.

Dysrupt is looking for a Director of Media Strategy who can blend big-picture thinking with hands-on performance expertise. In this role, you’ll lead strategy across a mix of clients, mentor a small but mighty team, and bring sharp audience, regional, and platform insights to every engagement. You’ll be the person clients trust to help them understand not just how media performs in the algo, but how media can solve real business challenges.

This role is perfect for someone who’s been living in performance marketing but is ready to step further upstream—guiding planning, shaping strategy, and driving multi-platform thinking, while still staying close enough to the work to know what’s actually happening under the hood.

Why Dysrupt? 

We’re a team of thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers who believe media should move people and businesses forward. At Dysrupt, you’ll have room to experiment, stretch your strategic voice, and shape how a growing agency shows up in the world.

Before we go further, ask yourself: 

• Do you geek out over how platforms optimize in the algo but also know when a broader approach is needed? 

• Do you enjoy uncovering audience behaviors, regional patterns, and the “why” behind performance? 

• Do you get excited about new dysruptive strategies and ideas that challenge the status quo? (see what we did there 😀) 

• Do you have passions outside of work you’re excited to bring into our culture? 

• Own the strategic direction and growth plan for a portfolio of clients, leading audience development, regional planning, channel mix decisions, and performance-driven media strategies.
• Develop longer-term strategic plans and forecasting models that guide client investment, improve performance predictability, and drive year-over-year revenue growth across Dysrupt’s client portfolio.
• Partner closely with client leads to translate business problems into media solutions and present clear, persuasive strategic recommendations.
• Identify upsell and expansion opportunities and sell through strategic recommendations that drive account growth.
• Guide a small team (2–4 people), offering coaching, feedback, and hands-on support while modeling excellence in research, planning, insights, and platform fluency.
• Build integrated paid media plans rooted in platform mechanics, historical data, competitive intelligence, and cultural/behavioral insight.
• Explore emerging channels, formats, and placements, with clear recommendations on when and how to deploy innovative strategies beyond standard best practices.
• Review pacing, reporting, and campaign outputs at a strategic level to ensure quality, consistency, and alignment with client goals.
• Lead development of testing strategies, learning agendas, and measurement approaches that push both clients and Dysrupt forward.
• Work cross-functionally across Creative, Analytics, and Account Management to ensure media strategies ladder up to business-level outcomes, not just channel-level KPIs.
• Serve as the strategic lead in client meetings—distilling insights, defending strategic choices, simplifying complexity, and shaping long-term planning.
• Contribute to process improvements, team operations, and the evolution of Dysrupt’s strategic offering.

• 7+ years of experience in performance marketing, digital strategy, or media planning, with multi-platform experience (Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, etc.).
• 2+ years of team leadership or mentorship experience; able to develop talent in a hands-on, fast-moving environment.
• Strong understanding of how biddable platforms optimize and how audience, creative, budget design, and regional strategy influence performance.
• Demonstrated ability to build integrated media strategies grounded in audience research, market dynamics, and platform mechanics.
• Skilled at interpreting data and shaping narratives that drive confident decision-making.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills—clear, persuasive, and comfortable leading conversations from strategic diagnosis through activation.
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple accounts and shifting priorities.
• A builder mindset: willing to roll up your sleeves, improve processes, and help shape a growing agency.

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: $127,585 - $192,060 annually. 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. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility 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 01/26/2026.

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