Media Supervisor, Media Buying

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. We have more than 400 team members in six countries and thirteen offices — Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, D.C., London, Los Angeles, New York, Oslo, San Francisco, and Zürich. We apply our unique expertise across strategic communications, public affairs, research, and digital marketing to create sophisticated and customized strategies that make change possible for both American and European clients.

Bully Pulpit Interactive (BPI) is seeking a full time Media Supervisor to join our team in Washington DC. In this position, you will act as a core contributor to team priorities, effectively communicating the strategic value, operational rigor, and "why" behind media activation goals to the broader media team. You will also help develop, articulate, and evangelize BPI’s agency-wide approach to buying strategy, platform best practices, and technical execution.

Additionally, you will conduct analysis into programmatic inventory, and vendor research to ensure BPI negotiates and executes highly effective, innovative, and market-leading media activations that drive measurable impact for our clients.

• Starting Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000 (+ annual bonus)
• Expectation to work from one of our offices (Chicago, DC, NYC, SF, LA) at least 3 days a week

• Contribute to the success of complex client programs by understanding big-picture client goals, making strategic recommendations to accomplish them, and empowering teammates to work towards them
• Manage and supervise campaigns hands‑on across multiple verticals, channels and all major buying platforms, including Google Ads, You Tube, Meta, Linked In, Snapchat, Reddit, Tik Tok, The Trade Desk and DV360
• Be able to contribute to client reports by analyzing platform metrics, provide actionable insights, and make smart optimizations to influence performance.
• Identify and implement workflow and process improvements on clients
• Work efficiently across numerous client teams by communicating effectively, setting and meeting expectations, securing buy‑in, and creatively solving problems

• Support senior leadership in conducting media, industry or company research to allow the agency to develop accurate and strategic advertising and marketing plans
• Improve upon/develop new processes to streamline communication and flawless implementation of plans
• Maintain relationships with ad tech partners, inventory suppliers, and data providers

• Act as a point-of-contact within the team to manage client and account team requests – i.e., budget changes, campaign flighting, and audience recommendations
• Work closely with creative and insights team on execution of challenging media placements and implementation of campaign measurement
• Delegate appropriately and collaborate with media planners to support plan development.

• Eligible after 6 months to directly manage Media Buyers, Senior Media Buyers, and Media Managers
• Act as a mentor to junior team members across your accounts

• 4+ years relevant work experience
• Proven hands‑on experience in programmatic and social media buying, preferably in an agency environment, with a track record of successful campaigns
• Experience working across some of our client verticals, including public affairs, strategic communications, advocacy and political campaigns
• Excitement to work on large corporate reputation accounts in addition to support of Democratic politics, non‑profit, and advocacy opportunities as they arise.
• Proven experience in…