Valtech The Lead, Performance Media owns strategic direction, quality, and growth of performance media across complex client portfolios. This role leads teams and drives omnichannel media strategy integrating AI-enabled tools and automation.
Responsibilities
At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.
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As a Lead, Performance Media, you are passionate about experience innovation and eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You bring 8 - 10 years of experience, a growth mindset and a drive to make a lasting impact.
You'll own the strategic direction, quality, and growth of performance media across a portfolio of complex client engagements. This role is ideal for a seasoned media leader who combines deep omnichannel expertise with strong people leadership, commercial acumen, and a forward-looking mindset—including a clear vision for how AI-enabled tools, automation, and intelligent workflows can transform how media is planned, activated, measured, and scaled.
Reporting to the Media Director, this position serves as the senior link between media leadership, clients, and delivery teams—managing up by shaping practice strategy, client growth, and executive-level performance narratives, while managing down by leading, developing, and scaling a team of Senior Performance Media Managers and junior planners and buyers. You’ll drive integrated, omnichannel thinking across programs, ensuring paid media is connected with experience, creative, strategy, data, and commerce efforts.
You’ll be accountable for the overall performance, profitability, and innovation of media programs across paid digital and broader omnichannel touchpoints, setting standards for excellence, championing responsible AI adoption across the team, and ensuring media consistently delivers measurable business outcomes for our clients.
A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo
A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing
Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data
Qualification
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Required
To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:
8 to 10 years of experience in digital and performance media planning and buying, ideally within an omnichannel agency or consultancy environment.
Deep expertise across paid digital channels (paid search, paid social, programmatic, online video, CTV, retail media), with a working understanding of traditional and offline channels within an integrated mix.
Proven experience managing, mentoring, and growing media teams, including senior-level direct reports.
Track record of owning large, multi-channel budgets and delivering measurable business results across multiple clients or brands.
Exceptional client leadership, presentation, and storytelling skills, with experience advising senior and executive stakeholders.
Ability to operate strategically while staying close enough to execution to guide, unblock, and quality-check the team’s work.
Preferred
Demonstrated experience integrating AI-powered tools and automation into media workflows, with a clear point of view on how AI can improve efficiency, insight, and performance.
Strong command of measurement approaches, including attribution, incrementality, and media mix modeling, as well as tracking and ad ops fundamentals.
Commercial acumen, including experience with scoping, resourcing, negotiation, and contributing to new business.
If you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply. At Valtech, we recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.
Reporting Structure
Reports to: Media Director
Direct reports: Senior Performance Media Managers, Performance Media Planners/Buyers, and junior team members
Works closely with: Strategy, Creative, Experience, Data & Analytics, and Technology Leads, as well as Client Stakeholders
