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Temporary Media Planner

Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

$45/hr–$54/hr

Mid level

We're looking for a freelance media planner dedicated to one of our largest accounts, a national retailer in an aggressive expansion phase — focused primarily on new store growth. This brand is opening 20+ stores a year,…

Skills: Media Planning, Campaign Management, Market Research, Budget Tracking, Vendor Management

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Client Finance Manager

United States · Remote Solely

$85k–$117k/yr

Senior

The Client Finance Manager serves as the primary finance partner for assigned client accounts, ensuring profitable and transparent client engagements. This role sits at the intersection of financial management and creati…

Skills: Financial Management, Budgeting, Revenue Recognition, Client Relationship Management, Financial Forecasting

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Temporary Media Planner

McGarrah Jessee

Austin, Texas, United States • Hybrid

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  • $45/hr–$54/hr
  • Full-time
  • bachelor degree
  • Posted 11d ago
  • ~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

Develop and execute localized media plans for new store openings, focusing on pre-opening awareness and grand opening traffic. Manage vendor communications, budget tracking, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure cohesive market entrances.

Requirements

Requires 1-3 years of multi-channel media planning experience and a bachelor's degree. Candidates must possess strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent campaigns across various local media channels.

Full job description

We're looking for a freelance media planner dedicated to one of our largest accounts, a national retailer in an aggressive expansion phase — focused primarily on new store growth. This brand is opening 20+ stores a year, and every one of those openings is a local launch. New market, new audience, new community. This role builds the media plans that turn a grand opening into a market entrance.

Our approach is simple: sound national, act local. Each new store market gets its own plan — built from a repeatable launch playbook, then made specific to the market. Local broadcast, out-of-home, geo-targeted digital and social, community partnerships, grand opening moments. The right planner sees each market as its own puzzle, not a copy-paste of the last one.

This role requires organization and adaptability — at any given time, multiple markets will be in different stages of launch, from planning to pre-opening awareness to post-opening ramp. We're looking for someone thorough, diligent, and genuinely curious about the communities the brand is entering, who over-communicates to keep launches on track across internal disciplines and local vendor partners.

Broad understanding across digital and local media channels is necessary. Experience with campaign management tools (or the ability to learn them quickly) is a must. Local broadcast and OOH knowledge are a strong plus — these channels do real work in a store opening.

Responsibilities

  • Support the team building localized media plans for each new store market spanning the full launch arc: pre-opening awareness, grand opening traffic, and post-opening ramp.
  • Research every new market before planning it — local media landscape, competitive presence, and audience behavior specific to that market.
  • Identify local moments, partnerships, and non-traditional opportunities that make the brand feel native to a community from day one, not like a national brand parachuting in.
  • Manage vendor communication and campaign implementation across markets: entering buys, trafficking tags and creative, ongoing QA, and coordinating with analytics on tracking setup.
  • Maintain organized, accurate flowcharts, budget documents, and billing details across multiple simultaneous market launches — each with its own budget, timeline, and vendor set.
  • Collaborate closely with broadcast, performance, and analytics teams to ensure local TV/radio, geo-targeted search, and paid social are working as one system per market.
  • Support asset needs, ensuring creative is properly tailored, sized, and localized for each market and channel.
  • Stay current on local vendor offerings market to market, and maintain a system for sharing that intelligence with the broader team.

Requirements

  • 1–3 years of media planning experience across multi-channel strategies; local market or multi-market launch experience is a strong plus.
  • Experience tracking budgets across multiple concurrent campaigns, ensuring spend is both efficient and effective.
  • Strong organizational instincts — this role lives in parallel timelines.
  • Excellent analysis, reporting, and problem-solving skills; comfort connecting media activity to real-world outcomes like store traffic.
  • Excellent oral and written communication, organization, and planning skills.
  • Curiosity about people and places — the best local plans come from actually understanding a market.
  • Bachelor's degree.
This assignment is anticipated to run from August 4, 2026, through December 23, 2026. While this position is intended to be temporary, there may be opportunities for continued employment should future positions become available and organizational needs align.

Flexible work from home options available.

Related keywords

Media PlanningLocal BroadcastOOHGeo-targetingDigital MediaSocial MediaCampaign Management ToolsMarket AnalysisBudgetingRetail ExpansionVendor RelationsTraffic TagsQAPerformance MarketingLocal Marketing

About McGarrah Jessee

LinkedInVisit site

We make people care too much.

Industry
Advertising Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
1996
Headquarters
Austin, TX
LinkedIn followers
21,479

We’re McGarrah Jessee but our friends call us McJ. We’re an independent, creative company powered by strategy, media, and data. Our thing? Fueling irrational fanaticism for irrational growth. We believe brands grow faster when people care harder. Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcgarrahjessee/

Offices: 121 W 6th St, Austin, TX 78701, US

StrategyDesignMedia PlanningMedia BuyingData Scienceand CreativeCRMAdvertising
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About McGarrah Jessee

LinkedInVisit site

We make people care too much.

Industry
Advertising Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
1996
Headquarters
Austin, TX
LinkedIn followers
21,479

We’re McGarrah Jessee but our friends call us McJ. We’re an independent, creative company powered by strategy, media, and data. Our thing? Fueling irrational fanaticism for irrational growth. We believe brands grow faster when people care harder. Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcgarrahjessee/

Offices: 121 W 6th St, Austin, TX 78701, US

StrategyDesignMedia PlanningMedia BuyingData Scienceand CreativeCRMAdvertising
View all jobs at McGarrah Jessee

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