--- title: 'Associate Director, Programmatic Media Strategy at Stackline' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/associate-director-programmatic-media-strategy-stackline-cleveland-2aecc2trph1p' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Associate Director, Programmatic Media Strategy at Stackline - **Company:** Stackline - **Location:** Cleveland, OH / Minneapolis, MN / New York, NY / Seattle, WA - **Posted:** 2026-07-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackline/jobs/4713204005 ## Job description Stackline is the first full-funnel connected commerce platform for the world's most innovative brands. Business leaders, product innovators, performance marketers, and analysts trust Stackline as the single source of commerce truth. Fueled by our proprietary neural network, our market insights, revenue metrics, behavior analyses, and autonomous functionality create the actions that determine success or failure. Founded in 2014 in Seattle, we now have offices in Minneapolis, New York, Cleveland, and London. Since November 2020, Stackline has raised $180 million in strategic investments from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and TA Associates. Stackline is on a mission to fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together. About The Role: The Associate Director, Programmatic Media Strategy executes strategic e-commerce initiatives while driving business growth for their portfolio of brands. This role will be responsible for establishing and nurturing trusted client relationships with prominent brands while collaborating with internal teams to launch advertising campaigns and design strategic growth plans. This role will identify emerging opportunities that lead to client both acquisition and expansion proposals. Focus will be on client satisfaction through overseeing digital advertising performance, examining ROI, and adhering to budget constraints. The Associate Director will actively contribute to company innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and serve as a trusted mentor to the team advocating professional development. This is a hybrid role (4 days/week in office) at our Seattle, Minneapolis, New York or Cleveland office. What You Will Do: - Develop strategic programmatic display campaigns and activate on e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon DSP and The Trade Desk. - Build data stories by synthesizing disparate datasets and analyses into easily understandable insights for both internal and external audiences. - Cultivate relationships (up to C-level) with prominent consumer brands across all organizational levels and departments, leveraging Stackline’s data to provide top-quality insights to key clients. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align efforts, overcome obstacles, streamline processes, and achieve organizational success. - Coordinate and implement critical path schedule to drive new product launches, advertising plans, and strategic growth plans. - Lead and/or participate in day-to-day counsel and bi-weekly client calls to provide project and deliverable status updates. - Identify opportunities to launch new business initiatives through platform upsell - Provide coaching and development opportunities to enhance the skills and capabilities of team members. - Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, best practices, and ethical standards Who We Are Looking For: - Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or related field. - 10+ years of relevant account management experience. - 10+ years e-commerce retail experience. - 6+ years of demonstratable experience using Microsoft Excel to analyze large amounts of data, drawing insights, and presenting findings. - 5+ years direct management experience supporting a team of three or more. - Demonstrated clear and concise written and oral communication skills. - Demonstrated ability to stay organized while prioritizing and managing workflows - Demonstrated experience drawing insights from data to provide recommendations to clients on e-commerce strategy Bonus Points If You Have: - MBA or other advanced business degree. - Experience manipulating data with technologies such as SQL or similar technology. - Demonstrated ability to think big, work hard, and solve problems. - Experience working in a startup, retail, digital advertising, or e-commerce environment. - Proficiency in German, French, and/or Japanese ## Benefits and Perks It’s important that each and every employee feels they are supported and can complete their life’s best work today and in the future. As part of that, we are committed to doing our part in addressing pay gaps and discrepancies by providing pay transparency for all of our roles. Actual salaries are just one component of the compensation package and may vary above or below the range based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, geographical location, and performance. The pay range for the Associate Director role is $140,000 - $160,000 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and other team-specific awards. In addition, we provide a robust benefits and perks package that includes: - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage that actually supports you — including HSA with company match and FSA options - Fertility benefits to support your path to parenthood - 401(k) with company match to help you plan ahead - Company-paid life insurance - 20 days of PTO + 9 company holidays to truly unplug - Paid parental leave for all parents — because family matters - Summer Fridays (log off at 3pm and enjoy it) - Regular in-office social events including happy hours and catered lunches - A thoughtfully stocked kitchen with healthy snacks and fresh fruit Stackline is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. ## About Stackline ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Stackline provides an AI-powered retail growth platform that unifies data, insights, and automation to help consumer brands measure, manage, and grow their business across ecommerce channels. - **Entity Type**: Private (funded by Goldman Sachs and TA Associates) - **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, USA - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Michael Lagoni ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Retail Technology, Ecommerce Analytics, Retail Media, AI-powered Software - **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large consumer brands (83 of the top 100 consumer brands are clients), retailers, and professional service firms - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together." ## Products & Services - **Beacon**: An integrated suite for commerce operations delivering unified insights, precise predictions, and intelligent automation across sales, forecasting, advertising, content, and operations. Includes real-time dashboards, 52-week SKU-level forecasts, scenario modeling, and growth recommendations. - **Atlas**: A competitive intelligence platform providing a commanding view of the ecommerce landscape across Amazon, Walmart, Target, and beyond. Tracks competitor ad spend, market share shifts, traffic, reviews, pricing, and product performance across more than one billion products. - **Ad Manager**: An enterprise platform for powering advanced retail media across Amazon, Walmart, and more from a single interface. Centralizes campaign management with pre-built integrations, automated budget pacing, targeting, and real-time optimization. - **Advisor**: An AI-powered agent with deep retail expertise that connects sales, media, shopper, and custom data to answer questions, analyze performance, research categories, and assess competitors. Delivers action plans, recommendations with forecasted ROI, and creates content. - **Shopper Analytics**: Provides omnichannel insights to understand how millions of shoppers act online and in physical stores—from market share to retention and share of wallet. Tracks shopper behavior at granular levels across major retailers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $180 million raised from Goldman Sachs and TA Associates - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs ($50M investment in 2021), TA Associates ($130M investment in 2023) - **Growth Signals**: Trusted by over 7,000 leading consumer brands; clients grew sales +77% faster than the market average last year; clients earned over $100 billion using the platform last year; expanded to 26 countries; opened offices in New York, Minneapolis, and Argentina; grew team to 250 employees globally ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive data moat**: Access to the world's largest set of online retail data, tracking more than one billion products across major retailers. - **AI-first platform**: Industry's first full-funnel forecasting technology (Beacon Pro) and an AI-powered agent (Advisor) that connects multiple data sources to deliver action plans and content. - **Deep client penetration**: 83 of the top 100 consumer brands choose Stackline, creating a strong network effect and industry credibility. - **Proven ROI**: Clients grew sales +77% faster than the market average last year, and clients earned over $100 billion using the platform. ## Strategic Focus - **Continued R&D investment**: Accelerating investment in AI and machine learning to create groundbreaking solutions for consumer brands. - **Geographic expansion**: Expanding core offerings (Atlas, Beacon, retail media) to more countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. - **Product innovation**: Developing transformative capabilities like retail checkout, apps, and Shopper Analytics to equip brands with new ways to engage shoppers. - **Talent growth**: Growing the team globally with ambitious colleagues across engineering, data science, product, and customer strategy. ## Why Work Here - **High-impact work**: Employees build mission-critical tools trusted by the world's top brands (83 of the top 100 consumer brands). - **Engineering culture**: Access to the world's largest set of online retail data to build state-of-the-art AI and LLM-powered technologies. Engineers are encouraged to think big and take risks. - **Ambitious team**: Described as "problem solvers and creative thinkers, engineers and new business builders" who tackle the industry's toughest challenges. - **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, stock options, Vanguard 401K with 4% employer match, best-in-class health/dental/vision insurance, 20 weeks paid maternity leave (12 weeks for all other parents), 20 days PTO plus 7 company holidays, Summer Fridays (early release), and fully stocked kitchens. - **Office locations**: Global offices in Seattle (HQ), New York, Minneapolis, and Argentina, all in downtown locations with easy access to lunch and after-work activities. - **Team size**: Approximately 250 employees globally. ## Sources 1. [stackline.com](https://www.stackline.com/) 2. [stackline.com/about](https://www.stackline.com/about) 3. [stackline.com/careers](https://www.stackline.com/careers) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackline](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackline) 5. 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