Associate Media Director Houston

Associate Media Director

Department: Media - Media Planning and Activation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Houston

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Gravity Global is the world’s most awarded marketing consultancy specialising in brands operating in complex markets. Led by strategy, innovation, technology, data, and creativity, we create brand-and-demand marketing programmes that drive transformational growth for our clients.

With 14 wholly owned offices across the US, Europe and APAC, and our Global Talent Hubs in emerging markets, you can build a truly global career in a rapidly scaling organisation that’s shaping the future of marketing.

At Gravity Global, we believe our people are our greatest strength. We’re a collective of creative thinkers, strategic storytellers, and data-driven innovators united by one mission – to deliver exceptional work that makes an impact. We’re growing fast – across continents and disciplines – and we’re looking for passionate individuals who want to make a difference: for our clients, our teams, and the world around us.

About the role

We are looking for a Associate Media Director who will be senior media planning leader within Gravity Global’s Digital Media & Strategy team, accountable for leading day-to-day media planning and media excellence across a complex global Technology client portfolio. The role ensures that media plans are strategically sound, operationally robust, and ready for senior client review.

This role exists to convert business objectives and client briefs into effective cross-channel media strategies across multiple markets, campaigns, and stakeholders. It provides the operational leadership and planning discipline required to maintain quality, pace, and consistency across a large-scale international account.

The Associate Media Director acts as the senior deputy to the Director of Digital Media & Strategy, taking ownership of planning workflows, report quality, optimisation direction, and media recommendations. The role creates capacity for broader strategic development while ensuring account delivery remains accurate, commercially disciplined, and insight-led.

The role also carries people leadership responsibility, coaching media planners and analysts to improve output quality, strengthen thinking, and build capability across the team. It works closely with client services, media specialists, analysts, and senior client stakeholders to ensure media activity supports commercial outcomes and long-term partnership growth.

Media Planning Leadership

• Lead first and second-round media planning for new programmes and campaigns across a global Technology account spanning multiple buying centres and markets.
• Translate client briefs, commercial priorities, and business objectives into channel strategy, audience approach, budget allocation, and clear planning rationale.
• Review, challenge, and approve planning recommendations produced by planners before senior review or client presentation.
• Ensure all media plans are accurate, strategically coherent, achievable within operational constraints, and aligned to agreed account objectives.
• Maintain planning standards across campaigns and markets, identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities early.

Channel Strategy, Innovation and Recommendation Quality

• Own the media point of view on channels, platforms, and partners across the account.
• Evaluate new media opportunities, audience solutions, and test-and-learn initiatives to improve performance and support client growth.
• Build evidence-based recommendations for pilots, alternative platform approaches, and optimisation priorities.
• Apply deep cross-channel judgement across programmatic, display, paid social, paid search, and broader video and digital media environments.
• Strengthen the quality of strategic thinking presented to internal and external stakeholders.

Performance, Reporting and Optimisation

• Lead review of recurring campaign and account reporting before client delivery.
• Ensure reporting narratives are clear, commercially relevant, and supported by robust performance interpretation rather than data extraction alone.
• Direct optimisation…