Head of Performance Media

The Opportunity:

We are working with a leading global media planning agency in Dubai who are looking to appoint a Head of Performance Media to lead and scale their performance capability across key regional and global clients.

This is a senior leadership role for a performance specialist who can balance hands-on excellence, strategic vision, and team leadership, acting as a trusted advisor to both clients and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the agency’s performance media function across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, Video, and emerging performance channels
• Set the performance media vision and roadmap, ensuring best-in-class planning, activation, and optimisation
• Act as the senior performance lead on high-profile global and regional accounts, driving measurable business outcomes
• Partner closely with planning, strategy, data, tech, and creative teams to deliver integrated media solutions
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing performance team, including managers and specialists
• Oversee budgets, forecasting, and performance reporting, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and ROI
• Lead client conversations around growth, innovation, attribution, and measurement frameworks
• Stay ahead of market trends, platform developments, and automation opportunities within performance media

Required Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience within performance media, ideally from a global media agency environment
• Proven leadership experience, managing and scaling multi-channel performance teams
• Deep expertise across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, and Performance Display/Video
• Strong understanding of data, analytics, attribution models, and measurement frameworks
• Experience working on large-scale, complex client accounts, ideally regional or global
• Commercially minded, with the ability to drive growth, upsell performance solutions, and protect margin

Key Attributes:

• Strategic thinker with a hands-on performance mindset
• Confident client-facing leader, able to influence senior stakeholders
• Highly analytical, results-driven, and data-led
• Collaborative leader who can operate within a fast-paced, matrixed global agency environment
• Passionate about innovation, automation, and the future of performance media

Package:

• Competitive senior-level salary
• Performance bonus
• Full UAE benefits
• Clear progression within a globally recognised agency network

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.