Director, Global Biddable Media

Company Description

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention; to care more about our clients’ brands; and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights; content and creative production; communications and strategy; finance and marketing; and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Overview

The Director, Global Biddable Hubs supports the execution and scale of the client’s global biddable media strategy across Search, Social, and Programmatic . Reporting into the SVP, Global Biddable Lead , this role plays a critical part in operationalizing global frameworks, enabling regional teams, and ensuring consistency, quality, and performance across markets.

The Director acts as a day-to-day global connector across the client’s four biddable hubs, North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC , helping translate global strategy into practical workflows, tools, and deliverables. While regional teams maintain solid-line reporting into local leadership, this role works closely with regional biddable leads via a dotted-line partnership to drive alignment and execution.

This role is ideal for a strong biddable leader who excels at cross-market coordination, problem-solving, and turning strategy into action.

Responsibilities

Global Biddable Strategy & Leadership

• Define and continuously evolve the client’s global biddable strategy across programmatic, social, and search.
• Establish global best practices, standards, and operating models for the client’s biddable planning, activation, measurement, and optimization.
• Lead the development of global biddable roadmaps aligned to the client’s growth, brand, and performance objectives.
• Serve as senior biddable advisor to the client’s global and regional marketing leadership.

Regional Enablement & Governance

• Coordinate across the client’s four global biddable hubs (NA, EMEA, LATAM, APAC) to ensure consistent application of strategy, frameworks, and tools.
• Create governance structures that enable accountability, transparency, and scalable execution while preserving regional flexibility.
• Partner with regional biddable leads and market leadership to drive alignment, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Support major global and regional client initiatives, transformations, and new-market expansions.

Global Partnerships & Marketplace Leadership

• Own the global biddable partnership strategy on behalf of Kenvue, including relationships with major DSPs, social platforms, search partners, and ad-tech providers.
• Lead global negotiations, joint business plans, beta programs, and innovation initiatives in support of the client’s business priorities.
• Identify emerging technologies, platforms, and commercial models that unlock incremental value.

Innovation, Transformation & Thought Leadership

• Drive global biddable initiatives focused on automation, AI, identity, commerce media, and next-generation performance solutions.
• Partner with analytics, data, and product teams to advance the client’s biddable measurement, attribution, and optimization frameworks.
• Champion client focused thought leadership and executive-level POVs within Spark Foundry and across partner ecosystems.

Talent, Culture & Capability Development

• Define global biddable capability standards and role frameworks in support of the client’s business.
• Sponsor global training, certification, and upskilling initiatives across the client’s biddable teams.
• Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture built on shared accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in performance / biddable media with deep expertise across programmatic, paid social, and search
• Proven leadership experience at a global or multi-regional level within a media agency or similar environment
• Demonstrated success building and scaling global operating models, best practices, and transformation initiatives
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Deep experience managing senior partnerships with major media and technology platforms
• Strategic, highly organized, and comfortable navigating complex matrixed organizations
• Strong change leader with a growth mindset and client-first orientation

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

Compensation Range: $119,510.00 - $188,025.00 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 3/24/26.

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