Media Lead Analyst

Commerce media is one of the fastest-growing segments in advertising, and Citi is bringing its powerful assets to launch a new media offering. With 70MM+ cardmembers, 6.5 billion annual transactions, and visibility across 700+ merchant categories, Citi has the scale, the trust, and the data infrastructure to compete at the highest level.

What sets Citi apart is the depth and breadth of its view. Where retailers see spending only within their own ecosystem, Citi sees actual purchase behavior across the full customer wallet, spanning categories, merchants, and channels. That cross-wallet visibility, combined with Citi's direct relationships with tens of millions of engaged, digitally active customers, creates a compelling foundation for advertisers who want to reach high-intent audiences and measure real outcomes.

We're building Citi Ads, Citi's Commerce Media business, from the ground up, and we're looking for a marketing execution manager who can translate client objectives into clear audience strategies and effective creative. This role focuses on defining target audience requirements, shaping briefs, and managing creative execution to ensure messaging is relevant and impactful. You're comfortable working hands-on to refine targeting, guide asset development, and ensure campaigns are executed with precision. You take pride in delivering campaigns that perform, scales, and evolves with the market.

If you've spent your career leading large-scale programmatic media teams and you're ready for the challenge of a lifetime, this is the role.

Why Join Citi Ads

This is a rare opportunity to help build a next-generation commerce media platform powered by one of the richest datasets in the industry. You will play a foundational role in shaping how campaigns are executed, measured, and scaled-while working at the intersection of media, data, and financial technology.

The Media Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Develop integrated media campaigns from inception to execution, including day to day management of multiple agencies and strategic oversight. Develop consumer focused and insight driven briefs and lead integrated agency briefing sessions.
• Drive successful integration of campaigns across all marketing channels/touchpoints, ensure message is effectively executed across multiple paid channels and citi properties. Manage cross functional teams in social, Public Relations, product, media, digital to ensure seamless integration
• Manage legal and product review process for all media creative while ensuring creative is clear, transparent and meaningful to consumers.
• Effectively partner with internal business teams to manage expectations, solve for issues that may arise and consistently add value.
• Provide guidance to internal business partners in the development of marketing materials, including providing a point of view on messaging, as well as guidance on media guidelines , imagery and ensuring consistency within Citi's mediaing system.
• Partner with and leverage research team to understand consumer insights for brief development and learn from media research as a way to consistently enhance campaigns.
• Manage day-to-day relationship with our agencies and provide direction that is clear and based on concrete rationale.
• Proactively solve issues to ensure consistently breakthrough, relevant, consumer-centric creative.
• Take ownership over competitive insights for your products/services - ensure working team is aware of new campaigns and implications for Citi.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of experience in consumer marketing, advertising and/or media.

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group:

Marketing

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Job Family:

Advertising, Branding and Media

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$114,720.00 - $172,080.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Jun 04, 2026

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