Manager, Programmatic

* Open to candidates in New York, Chicago, Dallas*

We are seeking a Programmatic Media Manager with experience in campaign management and execution, who is a vocal and engaged leader on their client and functional teams and has shown the ability to carry out strategy through structuring and planning. Managers are direct managers of the junior team members on their account and take responsibility for guiding their growth and ensuring that the team functions most effectively and with minimal errors.

As a Manager on our Digital Activation team, you will play a key role in developing programmatic media plans and executing campaigns while ensuring that pacing, performance and the Digital Activation Process is activated correctly.

We are seeking individuals with experience managing a team, delegating tasks and providing growth opportunities for junior team members. A proven track record of managing-up and actively communicating to all team members. This role requires that you clearly and concisely articulate communications to external and internal teams.

We want an individual that is accountable for all aspects of the plan and has the ability to flag and elevate concerns appropriately to their manager. The ideal candidate has strong attention to detail and extensive experience in QAing large datasets.

We value our culture above anything else, and that culture is built on the spirit of our people. We’re looking for tireless optimists, happy warriors and fearless collaborators who bring that extra dose of contagious energy.

The responsibilities of the Programmatic Media Manager will include:

• Drive overall digital strategy and associated tactics to meet client’s goals, working closely with account lead(s)
• Established as leader with the client and across all departmental teams, effectively prioritizing and negotiating needs between all parties
• Effectively manage and develop junior team members (mentoring, training, etc.)
• Prioritize and manage quarterly priorities and ad-hoc requests to ensure they are executed on time and to client expectations by entire client team
• Ability to problem solve, such as finding solutions for issues not yet attempted
• Proactively share learnings and best practices across the organization
• Establish oneself as an expert within their functional department and client team
• Identify ways to improve team efficiency and effectiveness, such as new processes
• Bring new proactive ideas to help meet client goals and grow business

• Ability to consult/educate/negotiate with clients and agency partners; providing expert consultation to vendors, internal teams, and clients
• Effectively communicate paid media insights, reporting, trends, and new initiatives to client/agency partners and vendors
• Ability to present recommendations/ideas to client and internal team
• Ability to effectively merchandise successes to the client
• Help educate client team on latest trends, best practices, technologies, etc.; ability to distill key ideas for non-digitally-centric teams
• Demonstrates appropriate judgment through proper escalation

• Programmatic optimizations (proactive and reactive)
• Forecasting and opportunity/gap analysis
• Advanced platform knowledge across all objectives (awareness, consideration and conversion)
• Monitoring new media trends and products and evaluating application to client
• Research tools/competitive analysis
• Budget/pacing and billing
• Understanding integrated media
• Industry trends

• Deep understanding of programmatic media campaigns and activation; providing inputs and guidance around campaign design, including requirements for success and optimal use of demand side platforms
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