Growth Marketing

Growth & Brand Media Lead – Contract

Contractor - Austin, TX

Favor is seeking an experienced paid media leader to join our marketing team on a contract basis to help drive and operationalize key media strategy initiatives during H2, 2025. This role will report to the Sr. Director of Growth & Lifecycle Marketing and collaborate closely with internal brand and creative teams, media agencies, and channel managers.

Duration: Contract of 6 months, with potential to transition to full-time pending fit and needs

Key Objectives

  • Bring your 8+ years of experience to lead the development of a comprehensive media plan for Favor’s Fall 2025 brand campaign.
  • Help shape and document Favor’s long-term approach to balancing brand and performance across paid channels.
  • Improve collaboration between Favor’s Media and Creative teams to increase output, relevance, and performance of paid assets.
  • Serve as the primary liaison for key media agencies and strategic media partners during the engagement period.
  • Guide short-term exploration and testing of emerging or underutilized media channels.

Goals and Deliverables

  • Develop integrated, full-funnel media strategy across brand and performance channels (e.g., TV, streaming, social, display, OOH).
  • Partner with in-house media managers and agency teams to finalize media mix, targeting, flighting, and spend allocation.
  • Align campaign strategy with internal brand, lifecycle, and growth goals.
  • Deliver a finalized Fall media plan, calendar, and brief for cross-functional alignment.
  • Define the strategy for a persistent “always-on” paid media presence that supports both upper-funnel awareness and mid-lower funnel conversion.
  • Recommend budget allocation principles for brand vs. performance across the funnel.
  • Work with analytics to propose a measurement framework (e.g., multi-touch attribution, media mix modeling, incrementality testing) for full-funnel campaigns.
  • Identify creative and messaging strategies appropriate for each funnel stage.
  • Produce a short-term testing roadmap and long-term operating model for always-on brand media.
  • Audit current creative development workflow and identify friction points between media and creative teams.
  • Propose a streamlined process for brief intake, versioning, testing, and feedback loops.
  • Help to develop creative guidelines or playbooks tailored to specific channels (e.g., YouTube, TikTok, Meta, Streaming TV).
  • Lead regular working sessions between creative and media leads to align on campaign needs and insights.
  • Deliver a documented creative/media collaboration process and recommendations for resourcing or tooling.
  • Act as the point-of-contact for external media agencies, ensuring effective execution, insights sharing, and alignment with internal priorities.
  • Coordinate QBRs, creative timelines, test plans, and performance reviews with agencies.
  • Evaluate performance and recommend optimizations, including reallocation of spend or messaging adjustments.
  • Build relationships with key ad platform reps (e.g., Meta, Google, TikTok) and stay plugged into beta opportunities or industry trends.
  • Help identify and prioritize new channels to pilot, including but not limited to: affiliate/content partnerships, influencer-driven media, Pinterest ads, emerging platforms (e.g., CTV placements, Reddit, etc.), lead exploratory planning: use case, targeting approach, initial creative needs, KPIs, and budgets, coordinate small-scale test launches in collaboration with internal channel owners or agencies, document results and make go-forward recommendations on channel viability and scaling potential.

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