Desiree Lopez

I've been working in media for about 7 years now, and I'm currently an Associate Client Success Manager at Samsung Ads, where I've been for about a year. I schedule campaigns on Samsung televisions and work in a hybrid role, going into the office at Penn Station 3 days a week. My day-to-day involves a lot of client interaction via email, scheduling calls, taking in new RFPs (requests for proposals), building media plans, and processing IOs in our internal systems. I also touch base with internal teams to make sure everything is executed properly. Before Samsung, I spent about 4 years at Warner Brothers Discovery as a Sales Planner, managing campaigns and scheduling commercials on 17 networks like Food Network, TLC, and Discovery. I was on the Engage team, which covered all the networks they had in-house. Prior to that, I worked at the Walt Disney Company in their ad sales department as a sales planner, and my entry-level role was as a sales assistant at Discovery before they merged with Warner Brothers. What really drove me to this field was my passion for the Food Network. When I was in college with a mass communication and journalism focus, I was also interested in the culinary aspect of things, and I really wanted to work for the Food Network. Working at Discovery gave me that foot in the door to work for the Food Network, even though it was on the advertising side of things.