Programmatic Media Strategist

Who We Are:

Power Digital is an AI-Native Growth Firm built at the intersection of world-class talent and proprietary technology. We help leading and emerging brands grow by combining deep vertical expertise, strategic thinking, and enterprise intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes.

For more than a decade, we have built our business around one belief: the best technology makes great people better. Our teams of strategists, creatives, analysts, and technologists use Omega, our AI operating system, to surface opportunities faster, investigate what is driving performance, and execute approved work with greater speed and precision. Behind Omega is Iris, our proprietary intelligence layer, built on years of real performance data, strategic frameworks, testing, and learnings from across our client portfolio. AI expands the capacity of our people to think, create, solve harder problems, and make better decisions. Human judgment, creativity, and accountability remain central to how we work.

As a people-first firm, we value diversity in backgrounds and experiences. We strongly believe our people and culture are key to our success. We partner closely with our clients as an extension of their teams, working across strategy, execution, and measurement to identify what is truly blocking growth and determine what to do next. Our culture is built on people who are curious, ambitious, accountable, and committed to delivering meaningful results for our clients and for one another.

At Power Digital, we believe the future belongs to teams that combine the best talent with the best technology. We are building that future today.

***Proficiency in spoken and written English at an advanced level is required for this role

A day in the life:

The Programmatic Strategist is responsible for owning the execution, performance, and growth of programmatic within their book of business. They are oriented towards the clients’ business success, tying their efforts to the greater business goals. They are self-starters and autonomously own their responsibilities. The Strategist works hand-in-hand with account leadership to ideate and evolve the strategy of their service within the broader media mix. They are responsible for owning reporting, optimizations, client communication, and execution of all programmatic media channel activations, with the support of a specialist team. The Strategist is excellent at providing insights and forward thinking strategy to clients on an ongoing basis, and has a strong understanding of their service’s strategy and the levers to pull to drive performance

Responsibilities:

Strategic Collaboration: Work closely with specialists, planning teams, marketing sciences and account teams to develop and execute programmatic strategies effectively

Campaign Development and Management: Create and onboard new programmatic accounts and campaigns within self-serve DSPs (Demand-Side Platforms) with hands-on-key activationTake ownership of managing campaigns across various programmatic channels, including mobile, display, video, CTV, DOOH and audio

Identifying audience + data partners for addressable campaigns

Curate and negotiate media inventory with high priority vendors and networks

Client Management:

Lead programmatic communications as subject matter expert

Monitor account pacing documentation, accounting requirements and deliverable tracking

Data Integration: Collaborate with the marketing and analytics teams to integrate reporting APIs and ingest daily campaign dataPerformance Monitoring:Actively monitor campaign Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) through reporting tools.

Insights and Analysis: Regularly deliver campaign insights and analysis to the lead strategist on a weekly basis.

Operational Support: Ownership of department operations for respective clients, such as trafficking, pixel creation, A/B test set ups

Employ AI technologies to enhance and optimize business processes

Utilize and leverage Power Digital's Nova ecosystem as it relates to your department

Role Requirements:

In-depth knowledge and hands-on-key experience with programmatic advertising platforms, demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side platforms (SSPs), and ad exchanges

Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to interpret campaign performance metrics, optimize campaigns, and make data-driven decisions

Understanding of digital marketing principles and strategies across various channels, including mobile, display, video, OTT, CTV, and audio

Proficient in ad creative best practices (formats, specs, messaging) and audience targeting techniques (demographics, behavioral targeting, retargeting) across various platforms and within the DSP

Excellent communication, collaboration and organizational skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, clients, and vendors

Strong attention to detail in setting up, monitoring, and managing programmatic campaigns

Familiarity with ad tech tools and platforms, including ad servers, ad verification tools, and ad trafficking systems

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Below 10% Client Churn Rate

Range of the number of accounts (7-8)

Achieve client spend thresholds and meet or exceed industry performance benchmarks by at least 95%

100% completion on client deliverables

Most Important Things (MITs)

Understanding the client’s business model and desired outcomes in order to align with the strategy of the account

Paid Advertising account performance and health of the account

Client retention, sentiment and growth

Paid advertising production and completion of tasks on time based on deadlines set by team/client

Collaboration with international team members on production work

Power Digital’s people and culture are at the core of our success, which is why diversity in our team’s backgrounds and experiences are paramount. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who strive to make an impact inside and outside of the workplace. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.

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