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Mercury is seeking a Head of Media to shape and deliver their brand's investment strategy and media approach, with significant financial and career growth potential.
Mercury is one of the fastest growing companies in fintech, and one of the few that wants to be a premium consumer-facing brand.
Responsibilities
- Own Mercury's media investment strategy — build and execute the plan for a budget doubling year over year.
- Differentiate how Mercury shows up in market — develop a media and distribution approach that stands apart from the standard playbook.
- Lead our agency and media partners — set the agenda and hold a high bar on their work.
- Build the measurement system — establish a rigorous framework for attribution, incrementality, and optimization.
- Connect media to the broader marketing ecosystem — integrate paid media with brand, performance, community, content, lifecycle, and product marketing.
Requirements
- Have deep media expertise — 15+ years building and running a media investment strategy on a fast-growing budget.
- Be a market leader, not a best-practices follower — find unique, high-impact approaches.
- Think in systems — design programs that make everything else Mercury does travel further and more efficiently.
- Be rigorous about measurement — fluent in attribution, incrementality testing, and media mix modeling.
- Have a track record of agency management — manage agencies and vendors effectively.
Conditions
- Total rewards package includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
- Competitive salary ranges based on experience and location: