Digital Media

VP, Digital Media

Known since 1983 for award winning work, Enlighten is a boutique digital marketing agency delivering innovative online advertising, social marketing, web design and development, digital CRM, consumer insight, brand planning, and online marketing performance measurement services to an eclectic range of major client accounts such as John Frieda, Jergens, Bioré, Curél, Ban, Hunter Douglas, Richmond American Homes, Fruit20, HealthMedia, illy caffé, Jimmy John’s, Olympic Paint and Stain, and more.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly strategic leader to run and grow our digital media practice. This position requires deep management, planning and buying expertise in all facets of digital and emerging media including display, rich media, video, behavioral targeting, custom content, social, mobile, paid search, co-registration and pay-for-performance media programs. You will be responsible for managing, mentoring, and growing our digital media team.

Responsibilities

This is a compelling opportunity for a strategic digital media leader to make their mark on a talented, pioneering, 27-year old interactive agency and help grow it into a next-generation digital marketing powerhouse. Reporting directly to the President and working closely with the agency founder and senior management team, the VP, Digital Media will have extensive leeway to structure, manage, and grow the agency’s digital media service offerings while also providing hands-on leadership to some of the agency’s larger accounts. The Digital Media practice at Enlighten is closely aligned with the agency’s Experience Design and Strategy and Analytics teams and we’re looking for an individual who can help accelerate the integration of digital media, creative, and measurement/analysis into truly innovative and effective programs for our clients. This opportunity resides within a unique agency culture that takes a low-ego, collaborative approach to creating killer work.

Requirements

  • Dynamic and experienced leader with proven capabilities in planning, buying, and managing digital media campaigns for brands in a broad range of consumer segments.
  • Collaborative, creative, and innovative – a penchant for helping brands win online with smarter more nimble digital media strategies. Winning through ideas rather than scale.
  • Extensive relationships with the publishers, platforms, technologies, concepts, and practices shaping the emerging digital media landscape.
  • Proven ability to lead, manage, and grow internal teams. Will also play an active, hands-on role in pitching new business and in providing digital media strategy on large accounts.
  • Must be a polished, persuasive, and strategic communicator – both written and verbal.
  • Opinionated, decisive, diplomatic, strategic, charismatic, creative, and collaborative are key traits.
  • 10+ years of media experience with the last 5-10 years focused exclusively in digital.
  • Individual must be an avid consumer of and active participant in the digital media revolution. Casual observers need not apply.

At Enlighten we prize individualism, excellence, irreverence, humor, and a high degree of personal integrity. Our culture is fun, informal, energetic, and deeply humane. We offer a generous benefits package, along with an attractive compensation and bonus plan.

If you'd like to join our team, please e-mail your cover letter and resume to jobs@enlighten.com.

Email your cover letter and resume to jobs@enlighten.com