Director, Media - Independent Consultant

ABOUT ELEVATE: Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. DIRECTOR, MEDIA (Independent Consultant)Elevate is engaging a senior digital media consultant to serve as a strategic advisor and delivery partner across a portfolio of growth-focused, direct-to-consumer brands. This independent consulting engagement is designed for an operator who has built and scaled high-performing acquisition engines in-house and is now looking to apply that expertise more broadly across multiple businesses. As an advisor, you will partner with Elevate leadership and client teams to shape media strategy, advise on performance optimization, and ensure that decisions translate into measurable commercial outcomes. You will bring a clear point of view on what drives efficient, scalable growth in today’s media landscape—and the credibility to influence stakeholders accordingly. This is an exciting opportunity to help us: guide strategy, inform execution, and elevate the overall standard of media thinking and performance across engagements. AREAS OF FOCUS:Growth Strategy & Media Advisory• Advise on full-funnel digital growth strategies across a portfolio of DTC and growth-stage brands, spanning paid social, paid search, programmatic, CTV, affiliate, and emerging channels • Translate client growth objectives (e. experience in digital growth marketing, with significant time spent in-house at DTC or digitally native brands. You have owned performance outcomes—not just execution—and are comfortable operating at the intersection of media strategy, financial accountability, and customer growth. You are equally fluent in acquisition and retention dynamics, and you understand how media investment connects to broader business performance. You are accustomed to working autonomously, managing multiple stakeholders, and delivering high-value advisory and execution support in a consulting capacity. ESSENTIAL:• Seven to ten years of digital growth marketing experience, with a significant proportion spent in-house on the brand side at a DTC or digitally native consumer business. skills — able to present media performance and growth strategy clearly and confidently at director and CMO level. DESIRABLE:• Direct experience working at or closely alongside a performance marketing agency, or managing agency relationships in depth from the brand side. experience in verticals such as health and wellness, beauty, food and beverage, apparel or consumer technology.• Track record of contributing to new business development, pitching or building out a media practice area. ENGAGEMENT STRUCTURE: • This is an independent contractor engagement and does not constitute an employment relationship. qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.