Associate Director, Client Activation

Location: Hybrid role based in New York City, with a minimum of three days per week at hirify.global HQ.

Salary: $130,000–$140,000 base annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a media company delivering branded content and integrated marketing partnerships across digital, multimedia, social, audio, video, and experiential formats.

What you will do

• Manage and develop a team of managers and individual contributors, including hiring, onboarding, training, workload planning, and continuous feedback.
• Own the transition of advertising partners from pre-sale to post-sale, establish campaign KPIs, and facilitate external kickoffs.
• Provide white-glove client service by managing creative feedback, approvals, timelines, budgets, and campaign requirements.
• Coordinate the execution of custom articles, social posts, audio, creator activations, video, and experiential deliverables with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Support client renewal, retention, and growth strategies in partnership with Account Executives and Account Management.
• Oversee media implementation, tag delivery, QA, campaign optimization, process improvements, and on-set experiences with clients and production teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in media, preferably in a digital or creative environment.
• 5+ years of management experience, including managing at least three direct reports and developing managers and individual contributors.
• Strong client service, account management, revenue retention, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects, provide direct feedback, manage up, and balance individual-contributor and management responsibilities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Creative Strategy, Branded Content, Editorial Operations, Ad Operations, Production, Social, Experiential, and Account Management.
• Ability to work from the New York City HQ at least three days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with multiple client categories and branded content production.
• Experience in video, audio, custom content, or experiential production.
• Familiarity with Google Drive, Keynote, Sheets, OMS, IMS, Monday.com, and project management software.

Culture & Benefits

• Respectful, empathetic, inclusive, curious, and accountable working environment.
• Bias toward action, pragmatic problem-solving, and a challenger mentality.
• Premium health, vision, and dental plans, plus mental health benefits and access to One Medical and Calm.
• 401(k) employer match, paid parental leave, and fertility coverage for eligible employees.
• Annual learning credit, gym and workout class reimbursements, employee resource groups, coffee, and snacks at the NYC office.