Associate Director, Zulumatic
Required skills
- investment
- analytics
- media buying
- operational excellence
- campaign managers
- analysts
- media ecosystems
- reach
- frequency
- pacing
Nice to have
- Zulumatic
- systems thinking
- platform knowledge
- vendor knowledge
- creative leaders
- client leadership
Role summary
An Associate Director, Investment & Analytics is sought to manage and mentor a team of campaign managers and analysts in Toronto. This client-facing role oversees daily investment, trafficking, optimization, and reporting for a portfolio of clients, ensuring precise and transparent execution tied to business growth. Responsibilities include managing account-level negotiations, budgets, SLAs, and vendor relationships, overseeing ad server setups, pixels, and UTMs, monitoring pacing, and translating performance data into actionable insights. The role also involves coordinating in-market testing, managing financial reconciliation, improving processes, and contributing to technology governance. A strong understanding of media ecosystems, including programmatic, paid social, search, and video/CTV, is essential, along with 7+ years of experience in media investment, activation, operations, or analytics, and 2+ years of team management.
We were founded on the belief that the world needs more creativity. It’s what drives all our decision-making. There is just so much ineffective, badly crafted work in the world that never gets noticed, has zero impact and is a waste of client budgets. We are here to change all that. When you truly embrace creativity as a competitive advantage, you will see it transform your world and your business. We’ve witnessed this over and over with our own clients. And, as a purpose-driven company, we also use our creativity to do good in the world by supporting causes we truly believe in. With 200 staff in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver, Z.A.K. is a magnet for top global talent. Want to change your world as a marketer? Let’s fight sameness together.
Who We’re Looking For:
We’re in search of an Associate Director, Investment & Analytics who’s obsessed with turning plans into performance and excited to help scale a fast-growing discipline. This client-facing role will oversee the day-to-day investment, trafficking, optimization and reporting work across a portfolio of Zulumatic clients. By bringing systems thinking together with strong platform and vendor knowledge, they will help ensure execution is precise, transparent and connected to business growth.
We believe media buying should be fast-moving and transparent, and operational excellence in execution gets us there. Analytics is intertwined in that process, closing the feedback loop with consumers and generating insights that can inform ongoing investment and future planning.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Based in Toronto, this role will manage and mentor a small team of campaign managers and analysts while staying close to the work. In partnership with senior media leadership, they will be accountable for day-to-day delivery across assigned clients and bring a strong understanding of the transactions that underpin media ecosystems and the variables affecting reach, frequency, pacing and overall performance. With an open and collaborative approach, they will build constructive relationships with creative leaders, team members, clients and partners. More specifically, you will:
Who You Are:
What You Bring:
If you’re a media thinker who loves building systems, developing people and making execution better every day, we want you on the team.
Compensation for this role ranges from $110,000 to $140,000 CAD, depending on experience.
Zulu Alpha Kilo is an equal opportunity employer. It prohibits discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial, and local laws. Zulu Alpha Kilo is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.
This job posting relates to an existing vacancy. Zulu Alpha Kilo uses artificial intelligence systems in the recruitment process to screen, assess, or select applicants but all hiring decisions are made by humans.
We appreciate your interest in joining Zulu Alpha Kilo. When applicable, please include a link to your portfolio with your application. Although all applications are reviewed, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
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