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The digital media and adtech landscape

Attention is fragmenting across screens and formats.

Content

Lifestyle, music, financial, and branded entertainment teams that build audiences and keep them engaged.

Video

Addressable, OTT, CTV, DSP, SSP, and ad-platform talent for the streaming and connected-TV era.

Mobile

Gaming, content-discovery platforms, and rich media specialists who own the small screen.

Programmatic

RTB, header bidding, and trading-desk operators who turn inventory into performance.

Social and Search

SEM, SEO, and personalization talent that drives reach and measurable demand.

OTT and Streaming

Recruiters for OTT publishers, advertisers, and networks redefining how content reaches viewers.

Ad Operations

Ad ops and analytics talent that keeps campaigns running, measured, and optimized.

Data and Analytics

Specialists from analytics firms and ad-verification players who make the numbers trustworthy.

Digital media and adtech recruitment

We build the teams that power modern media companies.

AC Lion is an industry-leading recruiting firm specializing in digital media, advertising, and OTT (over-the-top) recruitment. We work across a vast range of digital media and OTT publishers, advertisers, networks, and analytics firms, from venture-backed start-ups to established high-growth enterprises and Fortune 500 corporations.

Our recruitment team has deep knowledge of the digital media and AdTech sector and has partnered with some of the most recognizable brands to fill their strategic hiring needs. We have helped them bring on top sales, marketing, product, account management, and ad ops talent through executive search and permanent placement.

With more than 20 years of experience and recognition as one of Forbes' best firms, our approach stays specialized and relationship-based. We take the time to learn your business, culture, and hiring requirements so we can deliver the most relevant, qualified people and drive your growth.

Functions we recruit in digital media and adtech

The functions that keep media businesses growing.

We place the commercial, product, marketing, account, analytics, and operations talent that helps digital media and AdTech companies scale.

Recent placements

Digital media and adtech roles we have placed.

We place across the functions that move media and AdTech businesses forward, from revenue leadership to ad operations.

Sales Leadership

Digital media / OTT publisher

Marketing

AdTech platform

Product Management

AdTech / programmatic company

Account Management

Digital advertising network

Ad Operations

Analytics / ad-verification firm

C-Suite Executive

Venture-backed media start-up

How the search runs

Our digital media and adtech recruiting process.

Our hiring process is specialized and relationship-based, built to learn your business before we ever present a shortlist.

Step 01

Consultation

We take the time to learn your business, culture, and hiring requirements so the search is built around what success actually looks like for your team.

Step 02

Sourcing & Screening

We tap our extensive database and award-winning candidate delivery platform to find and vet the most relevant, qualified people in digital media and AdTech.

Step 03

Selection

We present a focused shortlist of top-tier candidates matched to your strategic personnel needs, not a stack of resumes to sort through.

Step 04

Interviews

We coordinate interviews end to end, keeping both sides informed and the process moving with the speed this fast-changing market demands.

Step 05

Offer Management & Close

We manage the offer and close to landing, then back every placement with a guarantee and structured 3-month and 6-month follow-ups to make sure the hire sticks.

Some of our digital media and adtech clients

TaboolaTripleLiftDoubleVerifyWebMDShazamTegna

Proof

Trusted by digital media and adtech leaders.

DDailymotion

AC Lion saved me so much time. They consistently presented high-quality candidates that were good matches for our needs. I ended up with a great hire in no time. Would recommend and partner with again!

Aubrey Bowser, Global Director of Product Management and Design

TTripleLift

AC Lion has been a fantastic partner for us. Through the years, they have consistently delivered some of our highest performing talent.

Eric Berry, Co-Founder & CEO

GGrapeshot

Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to build out a team and nearly everyone I have hired has come through AC Lion. AC Lion makes the process easy and seamless. I recommend them to both businesses and individuals looking to make a change.

Nicole Brodeur, Director of Account Management

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Find digital media and AdTech talent with a market specialist.

Tell us what you are building and we will deliver the qualified, relevant talent to get you there.

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