Account Supervisor, Media

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We are seeking an Account Supervisor, Performance Media to focus on our Corporate Affairs and Public Affairs practice. This role will support a portfolio of high-profile client engagements including corporate reputation, public affairs, advocacy, policy, and issue-based communications campaigns.

The Account Supervisor will play a hands-on role in the daily execution, optimization, and reporting of paid media campaigns while partnering closely with senior performance media leaders and account teams to ensure campaigns are delivered accurately, efficiently, and with strong performance discipline.

This is an opportunity for a platform-fluent media professional who combines paid social, search, and programmatic execution experience with strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate performance insights clearly to internal teams and clients.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working in fast-paced agency, public affairs, corporate affairs, political, advocacy, or communications environments and can operate directly within platforms while proactively flagging issues, identifying solutions, and supporting senior team members across active client work.

This role can be based in Washington DC or New York.

• Campaign Execution

• 4 to 6 years of experience managing digital media campaigns across agency, public affairs, communications, political, advocacy, or corporate marketing environments.
• Hands-on experience building, managing, optimizing, and reporting on paid media campaigns within platform interfaces.
• Strong working knowledge across paid social, search, and/or programmatic channels.
• Experience leveraging Google Ads, Google Tags, Google Search, DV360 and The Trade Desk, Meta Ads Manager, Linked In Campaign Manager, and Tik Tok Ads.
• Strong understanding of campaign setup, media trafficking, targeting, tracking, optimization, pacing, QA, reporting, and measurement.
• Ability to analyze campaign data and translate performance trends into clear findings and recommended actions.
• Experience working in fast-paced agency or client-service environments managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate campaign updates, performance results, and issues clearly.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, follow-through, and comfort working directly in media platforms on a regular basis.
• Experience supporting public affairs, advocacy, issue campaigns, policy communications, political campaigns, or corporate reputation initiatives.
• Search and programmatic experience strongly preferred in addition to paid social experience.
• Familiarity with audience and voter or stakeholder data platforms such as Live Ramp, Applecart, Atlas, i360, or Blue Labs.
• Experience using competitive intelligence tools such as AdClarity, Pathmatics, or comparable platforms.
• Experience supporting technology, AI, infrastructure, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, or regulated-industry clients.
• Agency, public affairs, political, advocacy, or communications environment experience preferred.
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