Senior Specialist, Video/Audio

Key Responsibilities and the Ways You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead local buying execution: Strategize, evaluate, negotiate, craft, and purchase local video, audio, and OOH media across assigned markets and clients.
• Stretch client budgets: Secure competitive rates, premium inventory, and meaningful value opportunities.
• Bring marketplace intelligence forward: Share market insight, vendor intelligence, audience trends, pricing context, and competitive considerations.
• Ensure stewardship accuracy: Follow the stewardship path to support accuracy, accountability, and delivery against client KPIs.
• Evaluate added value: Partner with the promotions team to assess proposals and identify opportunities that strengthen client plans.
• Build trusted relationships: Nurture strong connections with media reps and internal teams.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• 5+ years of local media buying experience across local video and audio; OOH experience is a plus.
• Existing relationships with station representatives and local media partners.
• Experience with media buying systems; Spectra and Prisma experience a plus.
• Strong familiarity with media buying and research tools.
• Strong math skills, attention to detail, and comfort evaluating rates, delivery, efficiencies, and posting results.
• Proficiency with Microsoft tools and the ability to organize information and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Ability to manage tight deadlines, multiple priorities, and detailed execution in a fast-paced agency environment.

Benefits we offer

• Talent Enablement: Career pathing, integrated learning ecosystem, mentorship, and employee recognition
• Financial: Competitive compensation, 401(k) with company match, pre-tax programs, referral rewards, and a remote work reimbursement
• Wellness: Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, pet, and life), onsite fitness center covered 100%, discounted membership rates at partner gyms and access to virtual fitness classes, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and curated opportunities to nurture your breaktime
• Balance: Personalized Paid Time Off (i.e., “Unlimited PTO”), remote work flexibility, paid parental leave (maternity, paternity, and adoption), and a variety of Employee Resource Groups
• Giving Back: Volunteer opportunities and corporate donation matching through KSM Cares Outreach, our Corporate Social Responsibility program