Senior Director, Retail Media

Roles open in:
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Salt Lake City, San Diego

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Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 20+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients’ problems, no matter where you are in the world.

Please note you must be located in the Greater Chicago area in order to be considered for this opportunity.

You’ll be the beating heart of DEPT®’s retail media team to one of the world’s most iconic brands in wearable technology. At DEPT®, we don’t just fill roles, we create careers. If you’re ready to redefine what retail media leadership looks like, we’d love to meet you.

We’re hiring a Senior
Director Retail Media to be at the heart of the operation for one of our flagship global partnerships in the Consumer Electronics space, specifically ‘wearables’. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of commerce, marketing, and retail, has an affinity with tech and is someone who can partner closely with a team of strategists, project managers and media planners to help shape and define wearable technology.

As a senior retail media director, you oversee a team of extremely passionate, qualified and experienced retail (media) specialists, across DSP, Search, Content and Retail Strategy. You are the connecting tissue between the sheer brainpower of the specialists and the strategic lead(s) on the client, ensuring alignment with the client’s vision. You drive strategy, sales, and delivery within retail, with support of the project management organization across Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart and dozens of other platforms across the globe.

To achieve your goals in this role, you will maintain senior-level agency relationships with the client’s counterparts and consult on the best path forward to achieve tactical goals developed in relation to the client vision with the other cross-channel leads (e.g. Direct To Consumer). Furthermore, you maintain the relationship with the big US retailers and support the co-development of features, functionality and reporting needs in partnership with the retailers.

You are experienced in consulting for varied clients in the digital marketing, retail and ecommerce spaces, and capable of driving conversations towards different capabilities within DEPT®’s retail media offering.

Success in this role after 12 months looks like:

• You’ve built strong relationships with key client stakeholders across media, e-commerce, and partnerships, and are seen as the go-to expert for all things retail media.
• Your team is firing on all cylinders
  , delivering consistently excellent performance across Search, DSP, Content, and Retail Strategy with clarity, accountability, and collaboration.
• You’ve shaped and launched a global retail media roadmap
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• Retail media is no longer siloed
  , you’ve integrated it into broader DTC, and channel strategy conversations, tying it directly to business impact and incrementality.
  You’re helping the client push the edge of what’s possible whether through a new targeting model, a custom beta with a retailer, or a fullunnel approach that breaks the mold.
• You’re laying the groundwork for what’s next
  , whether that’s deeper measurement, expansion into new retailers, or a bold POV on how wearables can win on the digital shelf.

This is more than media management; it’s global retail media ownership. This translates in the following key responsibilities.

• Lead the end-to-end development and delivery of retail media programs across Search, DSP, Content, and Retail Strategy
  ; partnering with…