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VP, Media Transformation, North America at Monks in Los Angeles
Job Description
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About the Role
Media Transformation (MT) is Monks’ practice for helping enterprise brands improve business outcomes by modernizing how media is planned, activated, and measured. Combining consulting, hands-on media expertise, and emerging technology, MT helps clients build more effective operating models, accelerate innovation, and develop lasting media capabilities.
MT began in 2017 with an in-housing program that Harvard Business School now teaches as a case study. Today it works as both a specialized consultancy and an embedded capability partner. Engagements range from focused projects (audits, taxonomy, pilots) to full in-housing transitions and evergreen embedded teams. Positioned between Consulting and Managed Media, MT turns advanced strategy into a working operating engine.
As VP and executive lead, you will set the practice's operational and commercial strategy, scale its advisory capabilities, and build bespoke solutions for what's next in paid media and advertising. You will run the day-to-day business and a multidisciplinary team of 35+, hold financial accountability, and set delivery standards. You will own revenue growth: retaining and expanding existing accounts, winning new ones, and evolving MT's capabilities as client needs change.
You will be an executive sponsor to senior client stakeholders and build long-term relationships with strategic enterprise clients and partners. You will shape and expand Media Transformation's offerings, combining consulting, media operations, and emerging technology to help clients modernize how media is planned, activated, measured, and managed.
Across Monks, you will build strategic partnerships with Data, Managed Media, Creative, DCO, and internal technology teams to develop integrated solutions and create shared growth opportunities. You will also represent MT in cross-company initiatives, client escalations and new business pitches, positioning Monks as the leading transformation partner for enterprise marketing teams.
Experience Sought:
- Operating Model Design & In-House Consulting: You can diagnose friction in enterprise marketing organizations and design what fixes it: operating models, in-housing roadmaps, agency transitions, change management, embedded teams and targeted interventions such as AI readiness assessments and measurement maturity frameworks.
- Ad Tech, Data & AI Innovation: You bring a strong understanding of modern ad tech, data, and AI capabilities, with the judgment to guide technical strategy and identify opportunities for innovation. You empower technical leaders and subject matter experts to design scalable client solutions, while building the partnerships and capabilities needed to turn emerging technologies into adopted ways of working.
- Executive Partnerships: You have experience building senior-level relationships across complex enterprise brands and key platform partners. As a trusted advisor, you keep and grow accounts by multi-threading relationships across the client's executive team, spotting unmet business needs early, handling escalations and shaping the next transformation engagement.
- Cross-Monks Integration: You build strategic partnerships across Managed Media, Data & Analytics, Creative, and Monks' internal technology teams to develop integrated solutions, strengthen delivery capabilities, and create shared growth opportunities.
- Commercial Growth & Pitch Excellence: You have a strong sales instinct and proven ability to drive revenue growth by leading and winning new business pitches, expanding current accounts and cross-selling Monks capabilities.
- Offer Development & Go-to-Market: You develop and commercialize new MT offerings by combining the practice's consulting and operational expertise with capabilities from across Monks, including internal technology and AI-powered solutions. You build repeatable services, delivery models, and go-to-market strategies that support client adoption and revenue growth.
- Talent Elevation & Team Health: You are a strong leader who coaches and develops directors, managers and multidisciplinary teams. You uplevel your team through training and feedback, foster a culture of inclusion, belonging, accountability and support, and build the governance, QA and operating systems that keep working when you're not in the room.
- Fiscal Ownership: You have experience leading a multimillion-dollar business unit, owning its revenue, margin and budget targets, and accurately forecasting pipeline, revenue and headcount. You scope engagements for profitability and manage cost drivers such as staffing mix and utilization. You track financial performance by account and course-correct early to protect margin without compromising client impact.
About You
The essentials:
- 12+ years of leadership in media operations, digital transformation or management consulting, across agency, brand-side or consulting settings.
- Experience leading teams of 25+ across tech stack consulting, media strategy, dynamic creative and/or embedded client services.
- Hands-on experience leading at least one end-to-end in-housing or agency transition, from assessment through handover.
- Deep experience partnering with, training or advising in-house brand teams, deploying custom operating models, staff augmentation structures and marketing maturity roadmaps.
- Strategic literacy across core ad tech and media platforms, including Google Marketing Platform (DV360, CM360, SA360), Google Ads, GA4, Amazon DSP, AMC, The Trade Desk, Meta Ads and leading ad serving/DCO platforms (Google Studio, Flashtalking, Innovid).
- Experience presenting complex organizational change strategies, operational playbooks and business solutions to C-suite and partner-level audiences.
- Based in New York City or on the West Coast (either is preferred), with regular travel to client sites and Monks offices.
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.
This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.