Client Strategy Manager, Activation

InMarket

3d•$90,000 - $100,000•Remote

About The Position

InMarket is seeking a strategic, commercially-minded Client Strategy Manager to join our Activation Client Strategy team. You will partner with Sales Directors, Account Management, Ad Operations, and Data Analysts across the full client lifecycle to shape RFP responses and strategic proposals pre-sale, then use in-flight and post-campaign performance to inform smarter planning, deepen relationships, and grow the account. We are also looking for someone fluent in AI who can build reusable skills, agents, and workflows that drive efficiencies and amplify outputs.

Requirements

3-5+ years in media planning, brand or agency strategy, insights, client success, and/or account management. Media planning experience strongly preferred
Comfort with quantitative analysis and a data-driven approach to decision-making
Strategic thinking that goes beyond the obvious: you reframe the brief, question the assumption, and find the angle others miss
Advanced AI fluency. You can build skills, prompts, and workflows that change how work gets done
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across all functions and levels
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including client-facing presentation experience
Strong proficiency with MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
Familiarity with Looker or other data visualization tools
All applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Nice To Haves

Fluent in AI

Responsibilities

Own the development of InMarket media plans and strategic recommendations that connect a client's business objectives to specific audiences, Moments, channels, budgets, and flighting
Build client-facing planning collateral: proposals, one-pagers, category POVs, and strategy decks that are accurate but creative, succinct but thorough.
Keep abreast of emerging consumer behaviors, media channels, technologies, and competitors impacting our clients' categories, and feed that back into how we plan
Lead the strategic response to RFPs and briefs, partnering with Sales to shape a differentiated, winnable point of view
Co-present at client meetings and on calls, representing the strategic rationale behind the plan with confidence and clarity
Use in-flight and prior campaign performance to inform the next plan, turning results into the reason for the client's next investment
Act as an internal resource for Sales, Marketing, and Product on how best to position InMarket's activation capabilities against a given client challenge
Translate complex data into a simple, compelling narrative to state the non-obvious learning and answer the 'So What?' and 'Now What?'
Partner with Account Management, Ad Operations, and Data Insights Analysts to interpret campaign performance and convert it into forward-looking planning guidance
Present recommendations and results to internal and external audiences, ensuring the message lands clearly with both marketers and their agencies
Contribute to Quarterly Business Reviews, identifying macro trends and growth opportunities spanning multiple campaigns on key accounts
Use AI tools as a core part of the daily workflow for category research, data synthesis, competitive scanning, plan drafting, and building client-facing materials
Go beyond basic prompting to build reusable AI skills, templates, and agentic workflows that encode our planning best practices and scale across the team
Bring a kaizen mindset of small, continuous improvements to process, templates, and output quality that is driven proactively