Brand Media Manager
Location: San Francisco, California
Country: United States
Category: Marketing
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: April 23, 2026
Job ID: 646293
Job Description
Brand Media Manager
Location: California, San Francisco
Duration: 9 months
Pay: $87/hr - $91/hr (DOE)
The Planet Group is seeking a Senior Brand Media Manager to lead media strategy across two exciting and fast?growing business lines--Experiences & Services. In this role, resource will act as a strategic partner to marketing and business leadership, driving high?impact media campaigns that maximize efficiency, reach, and brand impact.
Brand Media Manager Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience at a media agency or digital agency, or as a media/digital specialist within a marketing team -- preferably in the consumer internet space in travel, design, technology, or lifestyle brands.
- Agile and able to adapt quickly when working in-high growth business.
- Digital expertise with strong social platform competencies and ability to drive aggressive growth and testing frameworks.
- Experience in building new media and non-traditional partnerships to create tangible product extensions and integrated campaign work to lift awareness and adoption.
- Good knowledge of all media channels, on and offline. Proven track record in integrated campaign planning including digital media planning.
- Experience hosting on the site is a huge plus.
- Adaptability and innovation mindset to thrive in a fast-paced evolving environment.
- Fluency in English and proficiency in one or more languages preferred.
- Act as a strategic partner to marketing and business leadership in the US to design, manage, plan, and execute media campaigns.
- Maximize the efficiency of media budgets while working toward campaign strategic objectives.
- Design innovative, effective, and locally relevant campaigns to drive awareness and consideration.
- Drive strategic and operational media excellence across campaigns to optimize reach, engagement, and impact.
- Lead campaigns from communication strategy development through execution and reporting.
- Develop integrated communications plans, including media mix development and media planning.
- Manage performance measurement, budget management, online tracking, buy evaluation, optimization, and post?campaign reporting.
- Collaborate with regional Connection & Media Activation Leads to manage media agencies.
- Operationalize media and digital processes and templates within the evolving team structure and global measurement framework.
- Partner with cross?functional business and marketing teams to ensure cohesive media strategies aligned with global creative platforms and go?to?market approaches.
- Optimize media efficiency, creative execution, local relevance, and alignment with campaign objectives.
- Foster cross?department collaboration with Creative & Content, Finance, Performance Marketing, Local Operations, and Communications teams.
- Develop media measurement frameworks in collaboration with Marketing and Data Science stakeholders.
- Drive timely communication of campaign execution and performance information to relevant stakeholders.
- Stay informed about new media trends and emerging channels in the US and globally.
- Identify and prioritize media innovation opportunities.
- Bring fresh and creative thinking to ensure the brand leverages media in surprising and provocative ways.
- Facilitate best?practice sharing across markets.
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About The Planet Group
The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
