Programmatic Campaign Operations Specialist / Trader

Job description

Location: South Africa – Remote Hours: 14:00–23:00 SAST, Monday–Friday, aligned with U.S. Eastern business hours Employment: Permanent, Full-Time

Role Purpose

Execute and maintain programmatic campaigns accurately and efficiently within an established strategy, workflows, and QA standards. This is a hands-on campaign execution role focused on campaign builds, trafficking, pacing, optimisation, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities - Build campaigns, line items, targeting structures, and campaign components within assigned DSPs. - Traffic creative assets and third-party tags. - Complete pre-launch campaign QA. - Monitor campaign pacing and delivery on a daily basis. - Identify and escalate pacing or delivery risks before they become client-visible. - Execute routine optimisations and approved campaign changes within defined guidelines. - Troubleshoot campaign, creative, targeting, and activation issues. - Escalate complex technical issues to the Senior Programmatic Operations Lead. - Maintain accurate campaign documentation, naming conventions, and change histories. - Provide screenshots, compliance documentation, and campaign data when required. - Support campaign closeout, reconciliation, and reporting processes. - Work accurately across high volumes of campaigns and line items.

Must-Have Requirements - 2–4 years of hands-on digital or programmatic campaign execution experience. - Direct experience building and managing campaigns within at least one major DSP. - Ability to learn and work across additional platforms quickly. - Strong attention to detail. - Comfortable with repetitive, high-volume campaign production where accuracy is critical. - Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills. - Comfortable working from insertion orders, build sheets, and campaign specifications. - Strong written communication. - Disciplined escalation and issue-management skills.

Preferred Experience

Experience with one or more of: - DV360 - Basis - Simpli.fi - Amazon DSP - Meta - YouTube - VAST and ad-server tags - PMP deals - Verification tools - CTV/OTT - Online video - Agency or managed-service campaign operations

Success in the Role - Campaigns are built correctly the first time. - Campaigns meet agreed launch SLAs. - Pacing and delivery issues are identified early. - Routine changes are completed quickly and accurately. - Campaign documentation remains clean and up to date. - QA and escalation procedures are consistently followed. - The wider programmatic team can rely on accurate, consistent execution.