Role: Programmatic Specialist
Location: NYC, NY (2-3 days in office)
Duration: 6 Months
 
Job Description:

• Client is searching for a Programmatic Specialist to support sales teams and customers through programmatic CTV deal creation and pre/post sales support. Programmatic Specialists own the end to end operational management of programmatic deal curation for Buyers, including monitoring pacing, identifying optimization opportunities, ensuring measurement and reporting is set up correctly and managing billing requirements.
• As part of the Integrated Technical Solutions team, you’ll work directly with customers and collaborate with cross functional partners such as Sales, Business Development and R&D to ensure that programmatic deals deliver on client objectives, while consistently driving operational efficiency and excellence.
• The Programmatic Specialist is an expert in the ad tech landscape, working with DSPs, SSPs, and Marketing Solutions tools and platforms. Programmatic Specialists have a sophisticated understanding of both the programmatic ecosystem as well as the technical infrastructure that supports our CTV and Video products. You are able to effectively communicate technical specifications to Engineers and simultaneously distil technical concepts so they are easily understood by our customers.
• You are a nimble team player who is comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently in a business that is quickly evolving. The Programmatic Specialist is skilled at building partnerships and establishing credibility among multiple stakeholders.

 
Responsibilities:

• Own the day-to-day operational management and health of programmatic CTV deal curation, including monitoring delivery and pacing, identifying optimization opportunities, managing billing requirements, and proactively identifying and escalating risks or technical issues for resolution.
• Act as the operational partner to R&D teams and provide actionable insights to support product development.
• Partner with Sales & Buyers to plan programmatic campaigns, ensuring audiences are optimised for delivery and performance. Partner with Engineering for custom audience creation.
• Work with measurement partners pre and post sales to ensure campaigns are set up correctly and measured accurately.
• Collaborate with Buyers, Sales, and XLOB teams to ensure campaigns are activated, trafficked accurately, delivering on objectives, and provide a seamless client experience.
• Analyze data at Deal and Market level to provide actionable insights to Sales and Business Development teams to support revenue growth.
• Gather and relay feedback from clients, sales and internal stakeholders to help identify and implement workflow or process enhancements. and operational improvements.
• Support the maintenance and updating of operational documentation, best practices, and training materials.

 
Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience in Digital Advertising, Online Media or related field
• 2+ years of experience in a Programmatic role or related field
• Advanced Excel required; SQL not required
• DSP familiarity required (The Trade Desk primary); Curate experience preferred but not mandatory

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with the programmatic buying, including prior experience working with DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, and DMPs. Experience with CTV and Microsoft Curate is a plus.
• Familiarity with issue management systems (JIRA) and CRM systems (Dynamics, Salesforce, Oracle Service Cloud, Zendesk).
• Background in interacting with diverse groups of technical and non-technical individuals
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to effectively convey complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Customer communication soft skills with the ability to capture customer requirements, handle and resolve customer conflicts using various modes of communication.
• Experience with troubleshooting technical issues and proven ability to learn new technologies.
• Excellent analytical skills, including excellent command of Excel, and the ability to pull data directly using SQL or Presto, analyze large data sets, and identify business insights from data.

 
Suggested Skills
• Proven ability to adapt to change.
• Self-starter, comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment. 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 46.54/hr.