Programmatic Specialist

USA (Remote)

$65K/yr – $80K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end programmatic campaigns across display, video, CTV, and more, coordinating with planning teams and clients to drive performance from setup through optimization and reporting.

  • Lead full campaign lifecycle across multiple channels.
  • Manage DSP architecture, targeting, bidding, and QA to ensure measurement.
  • Present insights and recommendations to clients and internal teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, launch, and manage programmatic campaigns across display, online video, CTV, programmatic native, and digital out-of-home.
  • Own end-to-end campaign architecture in the DSP — IO and line item structure, audience and inventory targeting, bid strategy, flighting, and pacing.
  • Source and activate the supply that fits the buy — open exchange, PMP, and programmatic guaranteed — and hold publisher and platform partners accountable.
  • Traffic and QA creative, tags, and tracking elements so measurement is right before anything launches
  • Manage campaigns daily — pacing, bids, budgets, supply path, frequency, inventory quality, brand safety, and verification.
  • Build and run a real testing roadmap: audience, creative, format, supply, and incrementality.
  • Own programmatic budgets end to end — allocation, pacing, forecasting, IOs, actualization, and invoice reconciliation.
  • Partner with the planning team on channel mix, forecasting, KPIs, and benchmarks, and draft the programmatic sections of media plans.
  • Report on performance and delivery to internal and client teams— translating platform data into clear actions and defensible recommendations.
  • Present to clients directly and often, with logic and enthusiasm, at every level of the room.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years in digital media, with at least 2 years running programmatic campaigns hands-on.
  • Direct, hands-on experience in DV360.
  • Proven experience planning, building, launching, managing, and reporting on display, online video, and CTV campaigns.
  • Comfort working directly with clients and planning teams — presenting, recommending, and occasionally disagreeing well.
  • Working knowledge of ad serving and measurement (CM360 or equivalent), tag and pixel implementation, and third-party verification.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to make decisions from data rather than vibes.
  • Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of running multiple campaigns and clients at once.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to make programmatic make sense to people who don’t live in it.
  • Motivated, proactive self-starter with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Experience working autonomously on independent projects and proactively pulling in teammates when support is needed.

Preferred

  • Working experience in Amazon DSP.
  • Experience operating across multiple DSPs simultaneously on a single campaign, and a point of view on how to strategize around multiple supply partners
  • Programmatic native and digital out-of-home activation experience.
  • Experience with MediaOcean/Prisma, taxonomy management tools, and location or foot-traffic measurement partners.
  • Retail, eCommerce, or multi-location/new-store marketing experience.
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McGarrah Jessee

We’re McGarrah Jessee but our friends call us McJ. A fiercely independent, full-service creative shop. What’s our jam? We build brands that speak human through strategy that tells the truth, media that respects and creativity that entertains. The result turns people into fans. We work with companies we admire and clients with great taste.

Founded in 1996
Austin, Texas, USA
120 employees (73 in marketing)

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