Associate Director, Programmatic Investment
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Associate Director shaping programmatic strategy for Ad Results Media, a U.S. performance-based podcast and audio advertising agency. Leading DSP negotiations, campaign optimization, client strategy, and programmatic team development.
Responsibilities:
- Own the strategic vision for how programmatic media drives business outcomes across the agency's client portfolio
- Translate client objectives into bidding, audience, and publisher strategies aligned to performance goals
- Develop and evolve agency frameworks for optimization, pacing, and supply-path efficiency
- Lead vendor and DSP relationships and negotiations to maximize value and innovation
- Align programmatic and direct pricing strategies and optimize supply paths for efficiency
- Identify opportunities to grow margin and revenue through creative deal structures and experimental partnerships
- Serve as the agency's programmatic subject matter expert and drive organization-wide fluency in the channel
- Present strategy to clients and explain complex programmatic concepts clearly
- Foster collaboration across planning, analytics, and creative teams
- Oversee campaign setup, QA, and optimization processes
- Manage direct reports and uphold best practices across programmatic campaigns
- Deliver timely, actionable feedback and performance insights to account teams
- Serve as technical lead for troubleshooting and innovation within DSPs, SSPs, and data integrations
- Oversee pixel implementation, PMP management, and platform infrastructure
- Evaluate new tools, features, and data applications to improve automation, visibility, and performance measurement
- Build and mentor a high-performing programmatic team
- Share programmatic knowledge across the agency and lead adoption of new technologies
- Monitor industry trends and provide POVs on podcast/audio programmatic developments
- Assist with new business and existing client proposal creation and distribution
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in media, marketing, or advertising
- Demonstrated success owning programmatic strategy and campaign trading
- Experience using DSPs such as DV360, The Trade Desk, AdsWizz, and Verizon
- Proven experience managing and mentoring direct reports
- Strong people-leadership, coaching, and team-development skills
- Deep expertise in DSP/SSP platforms, pixel implementation, PMP management, and programmatic data integrations
- Strong negotiation skills, including securing preferred vendor pricing, first-look opportunities, and innovative deal structures
- Ability to translate complex programmatic concepts into clear, confident client-facing narratives
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking
- Experience connecting programmatic performance metrics to broader business outcomes
- Experience building scalable frameworks for bidding, audience targeting, pacing, and supply-path optimization
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Comfortable operating in a fast-evolving programmatic podcast/audio landscape
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Working knowledge of Google Sheets
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized and deadline-oriented
- Ability to manage competing priorities across clients and internal stakeholders
- Strong teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries
- 401k program with company match
- Bonus
- Valuable health benefits package
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Pre-tax savings on commuter expenses
- Generous paid time off
- Highly-collaborative, conscientious, forward-thinking environment
- Significant impact from Day 1
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