Summary
Our advertising business is grounded on the belief that a new type of ad exchange is needed, one that uses AI to understand the full content of any digital screen. Leading brands in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific trust us to deliver contextually relevant ads in and around brand-safe content where user attention is focused.
Our Strategic Media/Sales Planner (internally we call them Client Solutions Manager) team is the center of excellence for industry trends, GumGum's product performance and capabilities, and client goals. They use this knowledge to develop strategic data driven proposals leading all proposals including our top 50 and key accounts. They focus on setting up each campaign to successfully achieve client KPIs in order to deliver the GumGum standard of excellence.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the digital media landscape and have direct experience working with advertisers, building presentations and creating media grids. The role will work collaboratively with 3 – 4 sales people and their account management counter-parts. The planner will report to the Lead Client Solutions Manager.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with and support the sales team and account management teams to develop data driven presentations and proposals that will deliver KPI oriented results for our clients and drive high-margin revenue for GumGum
- Develop a deep understanding of the GumGum platform, products and technology to support the sales staff in creating effective presentations and proposals
- Manage all elements of proposal development including exceptions and mocks when requested
- Provide creative and compelling proposal decks, while learning to tell a data driven story to strengthen presentation
- Work with marketing when larger ideation needed
- Develop and understand not only the CSM role but also how it impacts other teams
- The CSM will work with their respective account manager regarding custom ad creative requests
Minimum Qualifications
- 1-3 years of digital media planning experience
- Bachelors Degree Required
- If you are self-motivated and thrive in a fast paced work environment this is the job for you
- PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills a must
- Knowledgeable of comScore, Quantcast and other research tools
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive health, vision and dental benefits
- Healthcare and dependent care FSA
- Employer-matched 401(k) plan
- Stock incentive program
- Paid parental leave
- Fitness reimbursement and wellness workshops
- Discounted Pet Health Program
- Flexible time off and work schedule
- Stocked kitchen
- Incredible work/life balance with a collaborative and friendly work space
- GumGum Gives Back volunteering opportunities
- Team building lunches and events, and monthly company celebrations
Career & Personal Development Focus
- Ongoing learning and development for education opportunities such as webinars, books, classes, relevant conferences and events
- Opportunities to pursue business related side projects and yearly Hackathon
- Highly encouraged to contribute to open source software, including our own open source software
- Environment of learning from peers, including meetups, presentations and blog posts
- Opportunity to work with cutting edge technology
- Life Skills sessions - geared towards the whole life/health/person
- Leadership Bites Dinner Series - connecting current and future GumGum leaders over great food and meaningful conversation
Our Team...
GumGum is an AI company with expertise in computer vision built on the imagination of its people. Each day, our talented team of thinkers and doers comes together to solve hard problems on behalf of the world’s most successful businesses. Through a combination of computer science, creativity and hustle, we’ve produced a series of major technology breakthroughs across a variety of industries - from advertising to sports.
Our Tech...
GumGum is constantly evolving to be at the forefront of computer vision and machine learning advancements. With nearly 10 years experience, we use our proprietary image recognition technology to deliver highly engaging, contextually relevant ad experiences across premium publishers all over the world.
Our Products & Services...
Our Advertising business serves contextual marketing messages in line with content users are actively engaged with.
Our Sports business helps marketers and rights holders understand the full media value of their sponsorship investments across broadcast and social media. And we deliver on brand safety by leveraging our AI to detect unsafe text and imagery, allowing us to deliver ads in brand safe, contextually relevant environments.
Our Hackathons...
What’s a Hackathon? We’re glad you asked. Our employees split into teams and spend 48 hours ‘hacking’ together before presenting their ideas to our executive team. It’s a chance for anyone within our company to showcase the visions they want to bring to fruition.
Our Culture...
GumGum recently earned LA’s Best Places to Work Award, and it’s no surprise why. With company-sponsored social hours, annual holiday celebrations and o-site gatherings, GumGummers enjoy a fun, creative and collaborative workplace. We provide ourselves on our strong track record of giving employees the autonomy and support they need to succeed.
Oh, and doggies...
We love our dogs so much, we even have an Instagram dedicated to them! Follow us: @dogsofgumgum
GumGum is committed to providing equal opportunities. GumGum prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws (“Protected Characteristics”). It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
