Specialist, Programmatic (California State Lottery)

El Segundo, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end programmatic campaigns with DSP mastery, leveraging daily reporting to drive KPI improvements and collaborating across strategy, analytics, and adops to ensure measurement integrity and timely delivery.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build and optimize DSP-driven campaigns with bulk updates, budgeting, and platform troubleshooting.
  • Performance Analytics: Turn daily reporting into actionable recommendations and campaign setup tweaks tied to KPI goals.
  • Billing & QA: Own invoicing reconciliation, ad serving estimates, tagging, and cross-team communication to manage expectations and deadlines.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Programmatic Specialists own campaign management from start to finish – inclusive of all self-service capabilities in planning, trafficking, execution, optimization, and reporting.
  • Master the usage of demand side platforms for campaign set up, optimization, and reporting; inclusive of: Bulk updating of campaigns, budget management, and troubleshooting platform issues
  • Working in reporting suite daily to glean insights and make optimizations against KPI goals
  • Applying insights to put together recommendations and set up campaigns
  • Support in managing relationship with platform support teams to continually bring innovation to the table
  • Learn and master processes and systems related to the trafficking and workflow management of programmatic campaigns; inclusive of: Primary Ad Server, Dynamic Creative Ad Server, Billing/Planning system, Verification systems, Measurement systems
  • Learn and become proficient in reporting systems that support programmatic campaigns (inclusive of data, verification, analysis that comes from reporting output directly in DSP)
  • Work collaboratively with multiple groups both internally and externally (strategy teams, client and creative agency)
  • Participation in status meetings – and communicate updates outward
  • Clarify with strategy teams on campaign deliverable requirements
  • Work collaboratively with analytics + adops teams on tagging requirements to QA performance
  • Own billing and reconciliation process (inclusive of ad serving estimation) to maintain campaign parameters
  • Communicate outwardly on if deadlines will not be met to manage expectations

Requirements

  • 1-2 years’ experience working on Programmatic Team
  • Knowledge of DSP platforms (Doubleclick Bid Manager, Mediamath, The Trade Desk, Appnexus, or Dataxu) required
  • Trade Desk experience is strongly preferred
  • Proficiency in advanced Excel formulas and experience manipulating large datasets into digestible insights
  • Be proactive: Show interest in constantly learning and growing
  • Be organized: able to work with dept head to prioritize projects across campaigns while also clearly communicating progress and project completion
  • Experience mentoring and guiding assistants/associates
  • Bachelor’s degree Preferred

Benefits

  • Actual base salary is determined upon factors such as experience, qualifications, training, certifications, and internal equity.
  • The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.
  • Base salary is part of a total rewards package that includes highly competitive benefits like generous medical, dental, vision, pet insurance, commuter benefits, disability and life insurance coverage, 401(k) matching, up to 14 holidays per year, a “Do Good Day,” and unlimited PTO.
  • Additional perks include employee social and wellness events, a DEI Council, auto purchase rebate program, monthly wellness allowance, and in-office amenities such as fresh kombucha and an in-house barista inside our beautiful, new vibrant El Segundo office.
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Founded in 2016
Los Angeles, CA, US
593 employees (151 in marketing)