Manager, Media Partnerships & Buying
Department: Off-Platform Marketing
Location: Mumbai

Role Overview
The candidate will help build and scale strategic media partnerships, publisher relationships, and platform opportunities across the Off-Platform Marketing function. The incumbent will be responsible for identifying, evaluating, and unlocking cutting-edge media solutions that can drive awareness, consideration, engagement, viewership, subscriptions, and business impact across multiple content and business categories.

The role sits at the intersection of media strategy, partnerships, performance marketing, and business development. The candidate will proactively bring new opportunities to the organization, collaborate closely with category marketing teams to assess applicability, and support execution where required. Success in the role will be measured by the ability to create scalable media advantages and unlock repeatable growth opportunities across the ecosystem.

Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and unlock strategic media partnerships, publisher opportunities,



audience solutions, platform innovations, and commercial constructs that can drive business impact across multiple categories and marketing objectives.
- Build and manage relationships with key external stakeholders including publishers, ad-tech partners, platforms, creators, agencies, OEMs, commerce partners, and emerging media ecosystems.
- Act as the central point of discovery for new media opportunities; proactively assess applicability across Hindi, English, South, Sports, Brand, and other business priorities.
- Collaborate closely with category digital marketing leads to adapt opportunities into actionable campaign solutions that support awareness, consideration, engagement, performance, retention, or viewership goals.
- Drive negotiations and commercial evaluations to maximize media value, efficiency, innovation, and incremental business outcomes.
- Partner with Google, Meta, DV360, publisher

📌 Manager - Digital & Performance Marketing, Digital (Mumbai)
🏢 JioStar
📍 Mumbai