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Media Investment Buyer

Tinuiti is the largest independent full-funnel marketing agency in the U.S. across the media that matters most, with $4 billion in digital media under management and more than 1,200 employees. Built for marketers who demand growth and accountability, Tinuiti unites media and measurement under one roof to eliminate wastethe biggest growth killer of alland scale what works. Its proprietary technology, Bliss Point by Tinuiti, reveals the truth around growth and waste, and how to capitalize on it. With expert teams across Commerce, Search, Social, TV & Audio, and more, Tinuiti delivers measurable results with brutal simplicity : Love Growth. Hate Waste.

We support 100% remote work for this role!

We'd love to hear from you if :

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The Media Investment Buyer plays a key role in ensuring our clients' ads effectively reach their core audiences through high-quality brand safe campaigns, and are carried out with best in class media acumen, cost negotiation, and strategic thinking. Your expertise will be essential to client performance across channelsprimarily TV, audio, and displayserving as a key liaison with our media partners and the agency's client teams, and developing innovative strategies to meet our brand's diverse needs. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent knowledge of media buying, particularly in video and audio advertising, long-standing proven relationships with key media publishers and networks to help support our buying footprint, and the ongoing drive to stay abreast of technological and industry developments to provide guidance and education to peers and clients.

As a Buyer, you will focus on :

• Media Buying and Investment Strategy : Research, vet, and execute media plans for large agency clients, ensuring that they run efficiently and accurately through both hands-on management and team delegation. Initiate opportunities for strategic expansion, optimization, and campaign growthparticularly for our largest, most complex accounts. Contribute as a subject matter expert in at least one focused area of the overarching TV / audio / programmatic landscape, facilitating team education and operational processes.
• Campaign Performance : Oversee daily and bigger picture campaign delivery across channels, ensuring strategies are appropriately implemented, errors are kept to a minimum, and goals are being achieved
• Collaboration : Interface with network partners, vendors, and internal teams to ensure smooth campaign execution, moderately complex problem solving, and innovative thinking with a solution-oriented mindset
• Partner Engagement : Reliable and consistent knowledge of TV, audio, and display trends through educational meetings with publishers as well as your own independent research, utilizing insights to make informed media recommendations and fostering knowledge sharing among your peers. Demonstrate clear investment in external relationships at the sales level with moderate to large networks and regularly cascade new information and specifics to our agency, advocating for our needs, and maintaining strong ties with these valued partners.
• Media Negotiation : Evaluate partner materials and negotiate media plans and costs ranging from performance campaigns to upper funnel / brand efforts, with a clear ability to vet new offerings and assess the value of media opportunities for the clients you work on. Use your general knowledge of the wider media marketplace to contextualize media opportunities and their potential, and use that insight and your partner relationships to negotiate highly competitive costs and terms.
• Team Projects : Accountable for moderately complex projects that have a visible impact on the Media Investment department, showcasing your flexibility and creativity in improving how we function with clients and media partners alike

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Competencies :

The annual base salary range for this roles' listed level is currently $81,000-$95,000 plus performance bonus of up to 10%. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. We will provide more information on our benefits and equity upon requests. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. 8-5-101 et seq

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Benefits :

Unlimited PTO : At Tinuiti, we believe you deserve time to rest, recharge, and enjoy life unplugged. When you prioritize time for yourself, you're able to bring your best self to work. That's why we offer unlimited paid time off, a fully remote environment, and flexibility to take the time you need, when you need it. On top of that, we provide 20 paid holidays, including multiple long weekends, to ensure you have dedicated time to step away and disconnect. We're proud to offer above-industry standard work-life balance, consistently rated as one of the most loved benefits by Tinuitians year after year.

Healthcare : Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts

Retirement : Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100% with immediate vesting

Perks and Wellness : Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity

Parental Leave : Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.

Learning and Development : On-demand learning (powered by LinkedIn Learning), mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources

Disclaimer : This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. The actual duties,