Vice President, Performance Media

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We are seeking a Vice President, Performance Media to focus on our Corporate Affairs and Public Affairs practice. This role will serve as a key daily leader across a portfolio of high‑profile client engagements including corporate reputation, public affairs, advocacy, policy, and issue‑based communications campaigns.

The Vice President will serve as the day‑to‑day account lead on major accounts while partnering closely with senior leadership to develop and execute integrated paid media strategies. This individual will help lead performance media initiatives supporting clients across sectors including technology, corporate affairs, reputation management, policy advocacy, and regulated industries.

This is an opportunity for a strategic media leader who combines expertise across paid social, search, and programmatic media with the ability to lead teams, manage client relationships, and oversee complex, high‑visibility campaigns in fast‑paced environments.

The ideal candidate understands both the communications and performance media landscape, brings experience from agency, public affairs, corporate affairs, political, or advocacy environments, and can quickly assume ownership of active client work.

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

• Serve as the day‑to‑day performance media lead across assigned client accounts.
• Partner with SVP and executive leadership to ensure successful delivery of sophisticated media programs.
• Act as primary point of contact for performance media strategy, execution oversight, reporting, and optimization recommendations.
• Provide leadership and accountability across campaign planning, implementation, performance analysis, and team coordination.
• Ensure programs are progressing efficiently while escalating strategic issues and opportunities to senior leadership.
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships while representing the agency's performance media expertise.

• Develop integrated media strategies leveraging paid social, search, programmatic, and emerging channels.
• Translate client business, reputation, advocacy, and communications objectives into measurable media plans.
• Lead audience segmentation, targeting, media mix decisions, channel recommendations, and budget allocation strategies.
• Incorporate first‑party, third‑party, behavioral, geographic, and stakeholder audience approaches to maximize campaign effectiveness.
• Provide strategic guidance on awareness, reputation, perception, policy, and advocacy‑focused communications programs.

• Oversee campaign execution across major media platforms including:
  Meta, Linked In, Tik Tok, You Tube.
• Evaluate performance and identify opportunities for growth, efficiency, and audience expansion.
• Lead campaign optimization strategy while ensuring execution aligns with business objectives.

• Apply media strategy expertise within public affairs, advocacy, corporate reputation, public policy, and stakeholder communications environments. Familiarity with AI and Retail sectors is a plus.
• Support…