Client Development Associate

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableEntry Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end programmatic campaigns, serve as the technical advisor to clients, and drive growth through data-driven insights, onboarding, and post-campaign performance storytelling.

Lead campaign lifecycle and setup in a proprietary DSP
Act as a consultative adviser translating data into growth actions
Partner with TACMs to troubleshoot integrations and ensure campaign quality

Job Description

Responsibilities

Strategic Programmatic Execution: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of campaigns within our proprietary DSP, ensuring precision in campaign setup, pacing coordination
Consultative Account Management: Act as a technical advisor to clients, translating data into actionable growth strategies.
Performance Engineering: Collaborate with Technical Account Managers to troubleshoot integrations, tag discrepancies, and brand safety parameters
Operational Hygiene: Maintain rigorous standards for financial tracking, budget allocation, and internal dashboard reporting to smooth and effective campaign deliver
Cultivate long-term partnerships and act as a trusted programmatic advisor through a consultative approach
Support to identify growth opportunities (upsell/cross-sell) and execute account plans to drive business results
Conduct regular client check-ins (including in-person when relevant), ensuring exceptional service and high communication standards
Support the sales lifecycle by contributing to research, tailoring pitch materials, and helping build media plans aligned with client goals and budgets
Ensure accurate advertiser/campaign setup, creative asset coordination, and platform configuration
Lead/support onboarding: platform access, training, launch coordination, and verification of delivery

Requirements

Programmatic Foundation: 2 years of hands-on experience in programmatic campaign management. Proficiency with DSPs and comfort learning new platforms/tools quickly (agency or tech platform background preferred)
AdTech Experience: Proficiency in leading DSPs. You are comfortable with technical troubleshooting and platform configurations.
Data Literacy. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into actions
Proficient client facing skills & communication: Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both internal and external counterparts. You are able to present, influence, and negotiate.
Languages: Advanced English (C1);
Strategic thinking: ability to plan and execute account plans that drive growth and revenue

Preferred

Proficiency in Salesforce or other enterprise-grade CRM systems. Experience in bridging CRM data with programmatic audiences is a major plus.

Benefits

External training budget and foreign language classes co-financing

Adlook

Adlook is redefining how brands grow across the open web and Connected TV. We are an independent, self-driving media buying platform for the open internet – AI-powered and outcomes-focused. Our mission is to empower product-driven brands to grow faster and smarter - cutting through digital noise and turning media into measurable results.Programmatic advertising has failed to deliver on its promise. Targeting data is often inaccurate - with studies showing 82% of users misclassified in third-party segments. Media efficiency remains poor, with less than half of ad spend reaching publishers. And ecosystem complexity forces advertisers into opaque and inefficient supply paths.Adlook fixes these flaws with a fully integrated, outcome-driven approach. Our proprietary Smart Audiences leverage generative AI to double targeting precision compared to legacy segments. Our Deep Learning Bidder ensures 90% more efficient media buying paths, while our built-in Supply Path Optimization delivers seven times better media quality. With partnerships across Adelaide, Lumen, and Scope3, we lead in measuring and optimizing attention, brand lift, and sustainability impact.Founded in 2022, Adlook operates across 10 global offices with 200+ experts, backed by 400+ engineers within a global AdTech cooperating with 7,000+ advertisers in 100+ markets. Trusted by brands from automotive to FMCG, Adlook brings together deep technology and human expertise to prove that in a complex digital world, advertising can be both effective and efficient. It’s how we finally bring programmatic to a place where it can rise to its original promise.

Founded in 2022

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, POL

191 employees (32 in marketing)

www.adlook.com