Associate Director, Performance Planning - Focus on Search/Social
for section headings. Do not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "If you require accommodation..." etc? That's EEO/accommodation, likely boilerplate. Also "All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines." Remove. Also "Our Publicis Groupe motto..." maybe keep as part of description? It's about benefits and culture; could be part of Benefits or About the role? Might be considered boilerplate but it's about values. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The motto is not exactly EEO but could be considered cultural statement; but we can keep if it's substantive. However we need to avoid filler. The benefits are listed: medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, flexible time off. Also compensation range. Also schedule? Not mentioned. So we should include Benefits and Pay sections if they have real content. The posting includes compensation range and benefits. So we will have sections: Overview (maybe as About the role?), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Also maybe Company Description? Could be part of Overview. The instruction: use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can use About the role for company description/overview. Responsibilities as given. Qualifications as given. Benefits as given. Pay as given. No Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So we won't add a heading for Associate Director, Strategy.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Remove duplicated lines. Let's extract content.
Company Description: "Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world’s most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry’s start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media’s powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we “Bring HEAT to Brands.” No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today’s most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media."
Overview: "The Associate Director, Strategy is the day-to-day steward on media issues for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of online media activity. They will be required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of their clients’ business and apply their media understanding accordingly to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. They will work closely with the Managers in the development and communication of all media recommendations."
Responsibilities: bullet list (actually sentences separated by line breaks). We'll convert to - .
List items:
- Performance media planning experience required - Focus on Paid Search, Paid Social and Programmatic
- Strong cross-channel planning and buying skills, particularly in digital
- Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency
- Ability to manage timelines, projects and personnel within direct report team and across cross-functional teams
- Flexible and able to keep up with a fast-paced, constantly-evolving environment
- Including the capacity to successfully manage multiple work streams at one time
- Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs
- Experience with productive and positive vendor relationship management
- Individual should possess confidence, composure, and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead in-person meetings with key clients on a daily basis
- Self-motivation and organization are key due to coordination with multiple internal and external clients
Qualifications: list:
- Have been working in digital media planning, buying and management for 5+ years with progressive levels of responsibility
- Think strategically, take into account the bigger picture, analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions
- Have led a team before, know what it takes to manage a group, even when a lot of moving parts are involved
- Able to take care of the day-to-day part of overseeing others and good at helping them grow and realize their own potential
- Build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps; have a history negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media; understand business; have a knack for sharing complicated ideas in a simple, understandable way
- Already active in the kinds of digital gadgets and communities that are changing our business; have a passion for tablets, smartphones, social networks, instant messaging, widgets, apps, blogs and whatever is new and life-changing; want to find ways to make them work for brands
Additional Information: includes benefits and compensation.
We need to extract benefits: "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."
Also earlier: "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." That's generic; we can keep as part of benefits description.
Compensation: "Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $155,961.00/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. 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 10/23/2026."
We should keep compensation range and maybe note that it's annual. Also mention benefits for regular roles. The deadline is maybe not needed? It's not boilerplate? It's specific date; could be kept but not required. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we should include the deadline as part of maybe a note? But we have no section for deadline; we could include it in a paragraph under Pay or Benefits? Probably under Pay as additional info. However the instruction says include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. Pay section we have. We can include the deadline in a
under Pay.
We must remove EEO/accommodation lines: "If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines." Remove.
Also remove "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." This is diversity statement; could be considered EEO/boilerplate? It's about inclusion; maybe we should remove as it's boilerplate EEO-related. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. This is EEO-related, so remove.
Thus we keep only substantive content: company description, overview, responsibilities, qualifications, benefits, pay (including deadline). Also maybe we keep a brief sentence about Publicis Media's powerhouse soul etc already in company description.
Now format.
We'll output:
About the role
Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world’s most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry’s start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media’s powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we “Bring HEAT to Brands.” No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today’s most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media.
The Associate Director, Strategy is the day-to-day steward on media issues for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of online media activity. They will be required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of their clients’ business and apply their media understanding accordingly to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. They will work closely with the Managers in the development and communication of all media recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Performance media planning experience required - Focus on Paid Search, Paid Social and Programmatic
- Strong cross-channel planning and buying skills, particularly in digital
- Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency
- Ability to manage timelines, projects and personnel within direct report team and across cross-functional teams
- Flexible and able to keep up with a fast-paced, constantly-evolving environment
- Including the capacity to successfully manage multiple work streams at one time
- Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs
- Experience with productive and positive vendor relationship management
- Individual should possess confidence, composure, and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead in-person meetings with key clients on a daily basis
- Self-motivation and organization are key due to coordination with multiple internal and external clients
Qualifications
- Have been working in digital media planning, buying and management for 5+ years with progressive levels of responsibility
- Think strategically, take into account the bigger picture, analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions
- Have led a team before, know what it takes to manage a group, even when a lot of moving parts are involved
- Able to take care of the day-to-day part of overseeing others and good at helping them grow and realize their own potential
- Build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps; have a history negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media; understand business; have a knack for sharing complicated ideas in a simple, understandable way
- Already active in the kinds of digital gadgets and communities that are changing our business; have a passion for tablets, smartphones, social networks, instant messaging, widgets, apps, blogs and whatever is new and life-changing; want to find ways to make them work for brands
Benefits
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. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k
under Pay. We must remove EEO/accommodation lines: "If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines." Remove. Also remove "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." This is diversity statement; could be considered EEO/boilerplate? It's about inclusion; maybe we should remove as it's boilerplate EEO-related. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. This is EEO-related, so remove. Thus we keep only substantive content: company description, overview, responsibilities, qualifications, benefits, pay (including deadline). Also maybe we keep a brief sentence about Publicis Media's powerhouse soul etc already in company description. Now format. We'll output:
About the role
Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world’s most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry’s start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media’s powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we “Bring HEAT to Brands.” No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today’s most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media.
The Associate Director, Strategy is the day-to-day steward on media issues for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of online media activity. They will be required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of their clients’ business and apply their media understanding accordingly to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. They will work closely with the Managers in the development and communication of all media recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Performance media planning experience required - Focus on Paid Search, Paid Social and Programmatic
- Strong cross-channel planning and buying skills, particularly in digital
- Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency
- Ability to manage timelines, projects and personnel within direct report team and across cross-functional teams
- Flexible and able to keep up with a fast-paced, constantly-evolving environment
- Including the capacity to successfully manage multiple work streams at one time
- Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs
- Experience with productive and positive vendor relationship management
- Individual should possess confidence, composure, and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead in-person meetings with key clients on a daily basis
- Self-motivation and organization are key due to coordination with multiple internal and external clients
Qualifications
- Have been working in digital media planning, buying and management for 5+ years with progressive levels of responsibility
- Think strategically, take into account the bigger picture, analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions
- Have led a team before, know what it takes to manage a group, even when a lot of moving parts are involved
- Able to take care of the day-to-day part of overseeing others and good at helping them grow and realize their own potential
- Build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps; have a history negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media; understand business; have a knack for sharing complicated ideas in a simple, understandable way
- Already active in the kinds of digital gadgets and communities that are changing our business; have a passion for tablets, smartphones, social networks, instant messaging, widgets, apps, blogs and whatever is new and life-changing; want to find ways to make them work for brands
Benefits
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. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k