Programmatic Technical Trading Lead

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$110K/yr – $145K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end programmatic stack from optimization and analytics to identity strategy and client-facing communications, leading cross-platform QA, data initiatives, and mentorship to drive compliant, high-performance campaigns.

  • Own optimization and analytics across campaigns and portfolios
  • Drive QA, identity strategy, and client communications

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Optimization Leadership — Oversee programmatic campaign optimizations and management; identify performance trends to inform individual campaign and portfolio-wide optimizations.
  • Trader & Supervisor Support — Support Programmatic Traders and Supervisors via consistent collaboration to ensure campaign success, applying a deep understanding of data analysis and programmatic advertising.
  • Performance Monitoring & Analytics — Monitor and analyze campaign performance using data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of programmatic strategies and make data-driven decisions that return maximum performance; lead analytics reporting with optimizations made, additional insights and the context of those insights.
  • Cross Platform QA — Leverage multiple DSPs and analytics platforms (e.g., Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Campaign Manager) to ensure setup and tracking is accurate. Lead discrepancy investigations and root-cause analysis across platforms.
  • Data & Identity Strategy — Apply knowledge and experience around identity resolution and data onboarding to support compliant, privacy-safe audience activation.
  • Advanced Data Analysis — Use advanced SQL knowledge to query, analyze and interpret large data sets in support of campaign and portfolio optimization decisions.
  • Client Communication — Serve as a programmatic point of contact for clients, translating technical nuance into business language.
  • Mentorship — Mentor junior team members to build their programmatic trading acumen.
  • Documentation & Process Standardization — Maintain detailed documentation of tagging instructions, implementation status, QA results and technical workflows to ensure transparency for internal teams and clients.
  • Regulatory & Compliance — Ensure tagging, pixel implementation and data collection/onboarding practices comply with HIPAA, FDA/OPDP guidance and platform-specific healthcare advertising policies; safeguard against inadvertent collection of protected health information (PHI) in campaign tracking.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education plus professional experience required.
  • 3+ years of hands-on-keyboard DSP experience.
  • Advanced SQL knowledge.
  • Experience with Google tools such as Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Campaign Manager, etc.
  • Deep understanding of data analysis and programmatic advertising fundamentals.
  • Knowledge and experience around identity resolution and data onboarding.
  • Experience with pixel and tag implementation, QA and discrepancy troubleshooting.
  • Ability to identify performance trends and translate them into individual campaign and portfolio-wide optimizations.
  • Ability to translate technical nuance into clear business language for clients and internal teams.
  • Working knowledge of HIPAA and data-privacy considerations as they relate to HCP and DTC/patient data collection and tracking.

Preferred

  • Prior experience within a pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing agency.
  • Experience with healthcare-specific DSPs and data partners (e.g., DeepIntent, Doceree, PulsePoint).
  • Familiarity with identity resolution and data-onboarding platforms (e.g., LiveRamp, clean rooms, CDPs).
  • Experience evaluating and onboarding new ad tech and data partners, including building testing frameworks for new integrations.
  • Relevant platform certifications (e.g., The Trade Desk EDGE Academy, Google DV360/CM360, Google Analytics/GA4, IAB/programmatic certifications).
  • Experience with third-party verification tools (e.g., DoubleVerify, IAS, MOAT).
  • Familiarity with privacy-safe measurement alternatives (e.g., Privacy Sandbox, Unified ID 2.0, clean-room approaches).
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As part of EVERSANA, we’re the first – and only – agency to be backed up by a fully integrated commercial services platform, giving us an unmatched understanding of the brand journey, a front seat to patients’ experiences across the continuum of care, and greater expertise on how to move levers for business impact. It’s why we’re able to think bigger and broader about brand success. To truly appreciate everything from what advocacy groups are talking about to how prescriptions are priced and delivered to what really happens in the field. We offer insights that others can’t. And we do it all while keeping an eye on the future, helping you envision what’s next.

Founded in 2021
Overland Park, Kansas, US
1.2K employees (403 in marketing)

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Programmatic Technical Trading Lead

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