Lead Media Thinker

Thinkerbell is looking for an amazing Lead Media Thinker (Account Director/Senior Account Director) to join our team of Thinkers and Tinkers in Melbourne.

HOW YOU'LL CREATE MEASURED MAGIC

So, what the hell is a Thinker? We're glad you asked. A Thinker is a strategy-account-servicey type of person who often comes from a background of adland, or media agency, or brand strategy, or earned, or from the coffee shop down the road, but is really really smart. They ask a lot of questions and listen very carefully for the answers. They're problem solvers and punctual, and know how to drive business results. They can manage processes and are business minded and they know how to get shit done

THE TASK AT HAND

As a Lead Media Thinker you'll apply an extra media-y layer to the Thinker role. You'll be a key lead in our business across all things media, online, offline or down the line. You'll have an analytical brain, a love for communications and be a gun at playing a bit of media plan jenga. You'll be naturally inquisitive, have a desire to dissect a challenge and not afraid to have an opinion. You also won't be siloed from our Creative Tinkers, in fact you'll be working hand in hand with them to deliver our creative media offering

You'll have three big things to do:

MEDIA STRATEGY, PLANNING AND BUYING

You'll lead integrated and media squads, developing media and communications strategies and overseeing their implementation. This will start with understanding your client's business inside out, having an interest and understanding of marketing science and behaviour change principles (and if you don't know these, an interest to learn). You'll also be integral in the development of media plans, being quality assurance in our implementation and ensuring measurement and learning is baked into all of our work. You'll be best friends with our media partners and have a curious mind, looking for ways we can optimise and improve our work.

PROJECT LEADERSHIP

You'll be a core squad member, bringing your expertise across retainers and projects. You'll have excellent attention to detail, be financially minded and be able to keep a piece of work on track. Sometimes you'll lead work for our clients and sometimes you'll feed into work as part of an integrated squad - either way you'll be collaborative, clear on the outcomes and able to problem solve with a smile.

INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION

We don't do silos at Thinkerbell, which means you'll be expected to think outside your craft (paid media). We want to hear your creative ideas, we'll want you to bring an Earned Thinker into a Paid project if it's the right thing to do and foster this mindset across the squads you lead. You'll take a collaborative mindset into everything you do, never solving a problem in isolation and integration will be your middle name, smashing down silos right alongside us.

LIFE AT THINKERBELL

Thinkerbell represents the coming together of scientific enquiry and hard core creativity – or as we like to call it, 'Measured Magic'. We are an agency of Thinkers and Tinkers and have extensive experience in the worlds of media (paid, owned, earned, and shared), research, strategy, and creative execution. We have helped some of Australia's best known and most loved brands find their inner magic.

We promise to push you out of your comfort zone, and nurture your inherent brilliant qualities at the same time. The Institute of Measured Magic is our training and development program where we keep brains sticky with internal and external tailored training throughout the year. We also develop personal Measured Magic Indicators (MMIs are our version of KPIs) to ensure everyone is growing in their role and beyond.

Whether you are a parent to little humans, the caregiver to your elder folk, or you simply do your best work over 4 days rather than 5 days- we are all ears and we are open to Full Time, Part Time or any ideas that lie in between.

We kick off every week with Measured Mondays, our all agency, super-wip and finish every Friday at 4pm with Magic Hour, where we get creative and weird together.

AND on top of your regular leave, everyone also gets a Mind Expansion Project per year, up to 5 consecutive days of extra leave per year for you to expand your mind and explore something new (that is something you wouldn't normally do and something you've never done before), and then share back your experience with the agency. Pretty interesting eh? What would you do?

WHAT TO DO NOW

Click 'Apply Now' and we will be in touch.