• Provide strategic and tactical counsel and direction for pod team members regarding client recommendations, issues, campaign optimizations and client questions. • Review monthly budgets in the Unlock Media Control Platform (UMCP) to ensure accuracy for assigned accounts. • Manage client performance media strategy, balancing it with content/SEO strategy. • Solve campaign and account issues, both internally and externally with clients. • Work directly with the Senior Director of Performance Marketing on team issues regarding performance and education/training needs. • Give and receive feedback easily, comfortably, and regularly. • Encourage others to resolve conflict directly as a first step; mitigate conflicts as needed. • Support company leadership in direction, directives, rollouts, communication, and objectives • Constructively communicate team challenges, issues, roadblocks, and areas of improvement to leadership • Exhibit positive support of all company initiatives, setting the tone for direct reports • Work with the Senior Director and VP of Performance Marketing to: • Improve processes and create new and better “best practices” • Look for areas of opportunity, client growth and process improvements, brainstorm creative solutions • Monitor and balance direct report workload, and always have an intimate knowledge of current assignments; dig into workload-related concerns • Identify opportunities to streamline workflow with AI and automation • Be an active and collaborative part of the conversation with a problem-solver mentality • Participate in department and cross-department projects and company initiatives • Have a solid understanding of operations tasks and responsibilities • Drive team meetings with Client Experience Leads, Campaign Managers and Digital Specialists to discuss client business from a strategic level, ensuring performance marketing strategy is pulled through at all levels, identifying growth opportunities (e.g., Increasing client expenditures to capture additional lead gen opportunity) and to expand to additional client campaigns. • Directly manage a smaller book of business (1-2 key clients) • Be the first stop for day-to-day Client Experience questions or concerns, especially client performance marketing strategy, campaign implementation issues and success measurement. • Possess a global understanding of the campaign life cycle and all departmental responsibilities across the company’s job process • Coach and train on this information as needed • Stay up to date on new processes, systems, etc.; Pull through training sessions with the rest of the department • Have a “roll up your sleeves” attitude about helping - get in there and help when needed