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Digital Media Director
Optic Security Group
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Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on May 18, 2026
Auckland | Permanent | Media Agency | Hybrid | Competitive Salary Based on Experience
Most media agencies have senior digital experts, but this role is different.
It’s a consulting-style digital role inside a media agency environment, built for someone who wants to shape the thinking rather than manage the machinery.
You won’t be buried in team management, planning delivery or endless pitches.
Instead, you’ll be assigned to major, complex accounts as a senior digital consultant, bringing a sophisticated digital, audience and technology lens to the front of the work.
Your job is to help teams and clients make sharper, more proactive decisions around data, platforms, audiences, measurement and digital opportunity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As Digital Media Director, you’ll lead digital media strategy across complex client relationships, helping internal teams and senior stakeholders make sharper decisions around data, platforms, audiences, measurement and performance.
You’ll work closely with client leads, planners, activation specialists, analytics teams and external partners to bring stronger digital thinking into the work. The focus is on improving the quality of digital strategy, connecting specialist capability and helping clients unlock better outcomes from their digital investment.
This is a build role with senior visibility, autonomy and room to introduce smarter ways of working. The agency is investing in digital capability, so you’ll have the opportunity to influence the roadmap, lift internal confidence and help shape what best practice looks like.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
You’ll likely come from a strong media agency background, with significant experience across digital media suiting, strategy, and implementation. You’ll understand the digital ecosystem deeply, including programmatic, search, social, data, emerging platforms, attribution and performance frameworks.
You’ll also need the judgement to translate technical complexity into clear, practical thinking for senior clients and internal teams.
This role will suit someone who is commercially sharp, curious and confident in senior conversations. You’ll need to be comfortable with some ambiguity, because the environment is still being shaped. That’s the opportunity. You’ll have space to influence the roadmap, improve the digital product and build a body of work with real strategic weight.
WHAT YOU WON’T FIND HERE
WHAT YOU WILL FIND
HOW TO APPLY
The easiest way to apply is by submitting your profile through this website.
Alternatively, send your CV or LinkedIn profile directly to: tea•@campfirerecruitment.co.nz
If you’re not actively job hunting but are intrigued by this opportunity, we’d welcome a confidential conversation.
ABOUT CAMPFIRE
Campfire is New Zealand’s specialist recruitment agency for digital marketing, e-commerce, digital me dia and creative roles.
We recruit across permanent, fixed-term contract and freelance opportunities nationwide.
View our current digital talent here: https://www.campfirerecruitment.co.nz/view-digital-talent/
Most media agencies have senior digital experts, but this role is different.
It’s a consulting-style digital role inside a media agency environment, built for someone who wants to shape the thinking rather than manage the machinery.
You won’t be buried in team management, planning delivery or endless pitches.
Instead, you’ll be assigned to major, complex accounts as a senior digital consultant, bringing a sophisticated digital, audience and technology lens to the front of the work.
Your job is to help teams and clients make sharper, more proactive decisions around data, platforms, audiences, measurement and digital opportunity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As Digital Media Director, you’ll lead digital media strategy across complex client relationships, helping internal teams and senior stakeholders make sharper decisions around data, platforms, audiences, measurement and performance.
You’ll work closely with client leads, planners, activation specialists, analytics teams and external partners to bring stronger digital thinking into the work. The focus is on improving the quality of digital strategy, connecting specialist capability and helping clients unlock better outcomes from their digital investment.
This is a build role with senior visibility, autonomy and room to introduce smarter ways of working. The agency is investing in digital capability, so you’ll have the opportunity to influence the roadmap, lift internal confidence and help shape what best practice looks like.
- Lead digital strategy across high-value, complex client accounts
- Help shape roadmap work across data, technology, audiences and measurement
- Advise senior stakeholders on digital opportunities, risks and performance
- Connect media, analytics, activation and partner teams around sharper solutions
- Bring digital expertise into strategic conversations earlier
- Build digital capability through guidance, challenge and practical leadership
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
You’ll likely come from a strong media agency background, with significant experience across digital media suiting, strategy, and implementation. You’ll understand the digital ecosystem deeply, including programmatic, search, social, data, emerging platforms, attribution and performance frameworks.
You’ll also need the judgement to translate technical complexity into clear, practical thinking for senior clients and internal teams.
This role will suit someone who is commercially sharp, curious and confident in senior conversations. You’ll need to be comfortable with some ambiguity, because the environment is still being shaped. That’s the opportunity. You’ll have space to influence the roadmap, improve the digital product and build a body of work with real strategic weight.
- Significant digital media agency experience
- Deep understanding of programmatic, search, social, data and emerging platforms
- Strong knowledge of measurement, attribution and performance frameworks
- Experience across complex, data-rich or highly regulated client accounts
- Confidence advising senior clients on digital strategy and performance
- Strong ownership, judgement and ability to simplify technical complexity
- Curiosity, commercial judgement and appetite to challenge the status quo
WHAT YOU WON’T FIND HERE
- Digital treated as a bolt-on channel
- Being siloed away from strategy or senior client conversations
- A purely executional role focused only on delivery
- Endless process with no room to improve how things work
- Heavy people management at the expense of strategic influence
WHAT YOU WILL FIND
- The opportunity to shape digital thinking across major agency client work
- Senior visibility across complex, high-value accounts
- Access to strong tools, partners, platforms and specialist capability
- Room to introduce smarter ways of working
- A team that values innovation, but expects it to drive real outcomes
- Strategic influence without a heavy direct-reporting load
HOW TO APPLY
The easiest way to apply is by submitting your profile through this website.
Alternatively, send your CV or LinkedIn profile directly to: tea•@campfirerecruitment.co.nz
If you’re not actively job hunting but are intrigued by this opportunity, we’d welcome a confidential conversation.
- Pay Range: Competitive base salary, based on experience
- Recruiter: Amelia Cranfield
- Job ID: 1044340
ABOUT CAMPFIRE
Campfire is New Zealand’s specialist recruitment agency for digital marketing, e-commerce, digital me dia and creative roles.
We recruit across permanent, fixed-term contract and freelance opportunities nationwide.
View our current digital talent here: https://www.campfirerecruitment.co.nz/view-digital-talent/
This job is no longer accepting applications
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