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Associate Programmatic Buyer
Oxford Road
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Associate Programmatic Buyer
USA (Remote)
Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradSalaried Ft
Posted 11 hrs ago
Job Summary
Owns end-to-end campaign lifecycle for select accounts, from planning and setup to pacing, optimization, and reporting, while collaborating with Sr. Buyers and supporting operational media tasks.
- Owns planning, setup, pacing, and reporting across campaigns.
- Supports trafficking, optimization, and mid- to wrap-up analyses.
- Coordinates with Sr. Buyers and cross-functional teams to execute client-focused media plans.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Assists Senior Media Buyers in drafting client-focused digital media plans, gathering partner forecast/abilities, and entering finalized plans into campaign management systems with accuracy.
- Leads end-to-end planning, execution, and strategy for accounts or test budgets, taking full ownership of campaign lifecycle management under light supervision.
- Maintains campaign budget tracking files, updates rolling opportunity logs, and organizes media specs across active accounts.
- Supports buying and rate negotiations led by senior team members, learning negotiation techniques and agency pricing benchmarks over time.
- Gains foundational exposure to programmatic strategy, learning how targeting parameters, bid strategies, and inventory selection function within DSP platforms.
- Serves as the primary operational support for campaign trafficking—reviewing creative specs, generating tracking parameters/pixels, and performing launch QA across platforms.
- Executes hands-on platform setup in DSPs (e.g., The Trade Desk, DV360) under supervisor review—uploading creative assets, configuring targeting parameters, and linking deal IDs.
- Monitors and owns daily campaign pacing and performance fluctuations. Ability to proactively make pacing adjustments and work up to performance optimizations and insights to support Sr. Buyers.
- Assists with mid-campaign and wrap-up performance reporting, pulling data from platforms and organizing insights for client presentations.
- Handles ad hoc operational tasks with flexibility and a can-do attitude to support overall media team efficiency.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in-platform bidable media, including ownership of pacing, making recommendations and optimizations.
- Strong eagerness to stay apprised of platform capabilities, inventory landscape and emerging ad formats.
- High degree of accuracy and extreme attention to detail—you take pride in getting platform settings, tracking tags, and numbers right the first time.
- Comfortable operating in a cross-functional team environment, collaborating with accounts, client stakeholders and Supporting Sr. Buyers.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment—adaptable to evolving processes and shifting priorities.
- Embody radical accountability: owns assigned tasks fully, communicates proactively when things go off-track, and treats every challenge as a learning opportunity.
- A collaborative, team-first mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel), AI tools, and communicating both written and verbal.
Preferred
- Baseline familiarity with digital media channels (streaming audio, display, video, programmatic) or ad tech platforms is a plus.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO: Generous PTO policy because we go out of our way to take care of our people.
- Perks & Savings: Exclusive discounts with agency clients.
- Team Connection: Fun and surprising remote and in-person events.
- Remote Setup: Remote-first company with full equipment setups provided.
- Comprehensive Health: Health, dental, and vision insurance eligible after 30 days.
- Financial Growth: Excellent 401(k) opportunity with company contribution matching.
Oxford Road
As the largest podcast and creator-based video agency, Oxford Road helps brands around the world to harness the power of audio advertising to achieve best-in-market performance at maximum viable scale. Oxford Road leverages its proprietary data solutions, such as the AudiolyticsTM Ad Scoring Algorithm platform and the Performance Index for media influence scoring, as well as brand safety and suitability solutions, to help its clients profitably reach millions of people each day through podcasts, radio, streaming, and smart speakers. Oxford Road clients include Fortune 500 brand advertisers and direct-to-consumer brands; the company has helped over a dozen of the latter to evolve from startups into global brand leaders valued at $1 Billion+. Find out more at http://oxfordroad.com
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
57 (32% of company)
Median Tenure
6.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34%
Direct
43.2%
Referral
5.4%
Social
16%
Paid
1.4%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~180