Associate Programmatic Trader

WHAT DOES AN ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMATIC TRADER DO?

THE POSITION:  

The Associate Programmatic Trader will join our in-house programmatic team, which is within the media team. The Associate Programmatic Trader's primary role is to operate in-platform, executing campaigns that have been planned in partnership with the Programmatic Trader, Manager or other senior leader on the team. The Associate Programmatic Trader is responsible for executing, managing and optimizing that work through the project lifecycle with varying input from the senior programmatic team. The Associate Programmatic Trader must have a strong attention to detail and be able to work in a fast-paced environment.  

The expectation is that this person comes in with strong attention to detail, willingness to learn and dive deeply into programmatic media and a collaborative, positive attitude. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams.  These results are achieved by:  

• Effective management and optimization of the live programmatic campaigns 

• Meet client objectives while implementing and managing programmatic campaigns within agency trading desk 

• Monitor and analyze campaign expectations on performance, brand safety and viewability to ensure the proper/agreed upon standards are met  

• Manage campaign calendar, assets, screenshots, billing tracker and all pre/post launch processes  

• Data analysis and optimization; keep optimization log and date of all optimizations made  

• Provide performance snapshots and pacing on a weekly basis  

• Contribute to analytics reporting with optimizations made, additional insights and the context of those insights  

• Identify and diagnose issues quickly and then escalate those issues to the proper internal stakeholder before they become major problems  

• Maintain strong vendor and cross-agency partner relationships  

• Demonstrate confidence and actively participate in internal and external meetings  

• Contribute to tactical media planning, including forecasting and estimation, in order to build programmatic media recommendations 

• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.  

• All other duties as assigned