Senior Programmatic Media Buyer

Responsibilities

• Own performance outcomes for Streaming TV and OLV campaigns, from planning and activation through optimization, analysis, and client-ready reporting.
• Take accountability for pacing, KPIs, and issue resolution, identifying problems before they escalate and driving them to resolution.
• Act as a client-facing partner for mid-market and enterprise advertisers, explaining performance, insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations in collaboration with internal teams.
• Use performance data to improve results, identify scaling opportunities, and support long-term, evergreen client growth.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to surface issues, provide feedback, and improve programmatic tools, workflows, and measurement.
• Leverage and help develop AI-powered tools and automation to improve campaign analysis, optimization workflows, and speed of learning across accounts.
• Apply learnings quickly across clients, platforms, and strategies in a fast-moving AdTech environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in digital media, performance marketing, or strategy roles, including planning, activating, and reporting on media buys.
• AI fluency, including effective use of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar for analysis, problem-solving, communication, and workflow automation, with critical judgment to validate outputs.
• Direct experience working in at least one major DSP, with a strong understanding of bidding strategies and optimization levers.
• Solid understanding of the marketing and sales funnel, with experience optimizing toward performance KPIs.
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to prioritize impact, make tradeoffs, and recommend next steps with incomplete or imperfect information.
• Ability to take ownership, solve ambiguous problems, improve processes, and step into increasingly complex client and strategic work.
• Ability to form and defend a data-driven point of view when there is no obvious answer.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to think at both the system and account level.
• Clear communication skills, including explaining why something happened, articulating recommendations, and pushing back when appropriate.
• Strong spreadsheet and presentation skills, including Google Sheets, Google Slides, formulas, and large datasets.
• Interest in learning new technology.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in walled-garden platforms such as Amazon, YouTube, Meta, or similar, including their measurement constraints, optimization levers, and tradeoffs.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary including an equity package and quarterly tax assistance for Ukraine tax residents.
• Competitive time off and company wellness days.
• Team-building events.
• Annual continued education benefit.
• Newbie Productivity Perk.
• Monthly stipend.
• Currently remote, with the possibility of becoming hybrid if a physical office is established.