Responsibilities

• Develop full-funnel programmatic media plans, including strategy, audience recommendations, budget allocation, inventory selection, and KPIs.
• Lead campaign briefing, setup, forecasting, pacing, and optimization workflows in partnership with activation teams.
• Evaluate and recommend audience segmentation strategies, leveraging 1P/2P/3P data, contextual opportunities, and platform-native solutions.
• Collaborate with analytics and insights teams to define measurement frameworks, testing roadmaps, and learning agendas.
• Analyze campaign results and generate actionable insights that shape ongoing strategy.
• Provide thoughtful guidance on channel roles, programmatic trends, and emerging technologies.
• Partner with creative, account, and production teams to ensure alignment on messaging, placements, and deliverables.
• Lead communication with platform partners (DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon DSP, etc.) to stay ahead of innovations and competitive intelligence.
• QA all programmatic media plans and deliverables, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and excellence.
• Present strategic recommendations, insights, and results to internal teams and client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or related field.
• 4–6+ years of experience in digital media planning, with at least 3 years focused specifically on programmatic media.
• Strong understanding of DSPs (DV360, TTD, Amazon, Yahoo DSP, etc.) and programmatic buying mechanics (PMPs, PG, RTB, auction dynamics).
• Experience developing strategies for audience targeting, data activation, measurement, and attribution.
• Ability to analyze performance data and synthesize into clear insights and recommendations.
• Experience working with luxury, automotive, or premium brands is a plus.
• Strong cross-channel understanding of display, video, CTV, audio, native, and emerging programmatic formats.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with ad serving, measurement, and verification tools (DCM/CM360, MOAT, IAS, GA/GA4, Adobe, etc.).
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and project management workflows.

Preferred

• Hands-on-keyboard DSP experience
• Google Marketing Platform or Trade Desk Certifications
• Experience with brand lift studies, MMM, MTA, or advanced analytics
• Exposure to identity solutions, clean rooms, or privacy-safe data models
• Experience with automation/bulk sheets for optimization, reporting, and trafficking efficiencies
• Experience with DCO at scale
• Regional media planning experience

Benefits

• Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.