Director, Retail Media - Business Operations & Self Service
Dentsu is looking for Director, Retail Media - Business Operations & Self Service in White Plains, NY.
This local job opportunity with ID 3880871998 is live since 2026-10-10 11:24:21.
Overview
Overview
In this role you will lead the day-to-day self-service retail media operations, ensuring campaigns are designed, executed, and optimized to meet client goals. You'll act as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders and client partners, coordinating cross-functional teams to sustain operational excellence. You will implement and validate self-service tools, maintain documentation, and monitor KPIs to drive accountable business results. This position offers a chance to shape self-service capabilities and enhance efficiency in a fast paced retail media environment.
Compensation / Benefits- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Lead day-to-day self-service retail media operations and campaigns to meet client goals
- Oversee campaign execution, optimization, and delivery
- Troubleshoot operational issues and escalate complex problems
- Maintain documentation and operational standards
- Coordinate tool rollouts with vendors and stakeholders
- Test and validate new tools before team-wide use
- Create training materials and process guides for new tools
- Monitor campaign setup, delivery, audiences, and assets for accuracy
- Ensure compliance with platform requirements and client specs
- Track and report operational KPIs and metrics
- Collaborate with planning, execution, and analytics teams to support operations
- Develop operational playbooks and standards
- Gather feedback to inform operational improvements
- Communicate status of issues, tool implementations, and process updates to stakeholders
- 7+ years in digital media strategy, digital media agency, or media vendor/ad tech (ideally self-service)
- Knowledge of self-service media buying and retail media networks (Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Target+, Microsoft Advertising)
- Experience with campaign setup, trafficking, activation, and retail media workflows
- Project management capabilities: plan-to-execution, timelines, dependencies, cross-functional coordination
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Analytical skills and data-driven problem solving
- Willingness to learn new platforms, tools, and systems quickly
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- strong communication and organizational skills
- cross-functional collaboration
- entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving willingness
- Self-service media buying
- Retail media platforms (Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Target+, Microsoft Advertising)
- Campaign trafficking and activation best practices