Pilot is a 550+ person independent agency operating across seven German and Swiss cities, built on a stack of HubSpot, Power BI, SQL, Python, and Adobe Creative Cloud. The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward marketing (78 roles) with notable gaps in data (10 roles) and ops (4 roles), while active projects cluster around campaign optimization, attribution analytics, and budget allocation—suggesting the org is scaling campaign execution faster than it's building internal analytics infrastructure to measure performance at scale.
Notable leadership hires: Media Orchestration Director, Director Media Consulting, Media Planning Lead
Pilot is one of Germany's largest independent agency groups, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hamburg. The firm operates as a full-service provider across media planning, creative production, strategy, and corporate communications, with 550+ specialists distributed across offices in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Mainz, and Zurich. Core competencies span media planning and buying, brand strategy, market research, geomarketing, and brand experiences. The client base includes mid-market to large national and international companies across consumer goods, retail, telecommunications, and healthcare. Pilot is a founding member of Local Planet, a global network of independent agencies.
Pilot's core stack includes HubSpot (CRM), Power BI (analytics), SQL and Python (data), Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma (design), Microsoft Office suite, Teams (collaboration), and WordPress (web). DSP tools and Meta/LinkedIn platforms support media execution.
Active projects include attribution analytics build, campaign optimization tests, budget attribution across channels, media audits, hypothesis-driven testing, and competitive analysis (Wettbewerbsanalysen). Visual storytelling and new product development are also in flight.
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