Programmatic Associate

Job Title: Programmatic Associate (Remote)

About the Client: a performance marketing agency specializing in healthy, active, and lifestyle brands. The company helps businesses drive growth through data-driven marketing, audience insights, media strategy, creative content, and integrated digital solutions.

Overview: The Programmatic Associate is a hands-on execution and account health role supporting the Programmatic team. This position builds and traffics programmatic campaigns quickly and accurately, keeps live campaigns delivering on budget, and finds problems before they cost clients money. Unlike a pure QA role, the associate is expected to diagnose what is wrong and propose a specific fix, not just flag that something looks off. The associate works from documented processes, build templates, and briefs from senior team members. Recommended fixes are reviewed and approved by the Programmatic Team Manager before changes that affect strategy, bidding, inventory, or budget allocation are made. This role is not responsible for leading client communication, setting campaign strategy, or owning client performance goals

Responsibilities:

• Build campaigns in The Trade Desk and DV360 from approved briefs and templates, including budgets, flights, ad groups or line items, bid settings, frequency caps, audiences, geo targeting, and brand safety settings
• Primary focus will be The Trade Desk. Secondary will be DV360, including YouTube line items
• Traffic creatives and tags, confirming correct specs, sizes, VAST/VPAID setup, click-through URLs, and UTMs
• Set up and verify deal IDs, private marketplace (PMP) deals, and inventory lists
• Confirm tracking pixels and conversion events are firing and attached correctly before launch
• Build multi-location geo targeting quickly for clients operating dozens to hundreds of locations
• Run scheduled audits of live campaigns against a standard checklist: flight dates, budgets, pacing settings, frequency caps, creative approvals, deal status, pixel health, and naming consistency
• Perform daily delivery checks using internal tools and directly in platform to spot anomalies such as under-delivery, sudden spend spikes, falling win rates, CPM or CTR swings, viewability drops, or conversion tracking breaks
• Identify the likely cause of each anomaly (for example, bids too low for the inventory, an inactive or non-bidding deal, an expired creative, a pixel outage, overly narrow targeting, or suspicious traffic) before escalating
• Review site and app placement reports to flag low-quality or suspicious inventory and propose exclusions
• For every issue identified, document what happened, the likely cause, the recommended fix, and the expected impact
  Implement approved fixes and routine corrections (creative swaps, broken URLs, flight date fixes, placement exclusions) within agreed guidelines
• Escalate issues that affect strategy, bidding, inventory, or budget allocation to the
• Programmatic Team Manager with a recommendation, not just a flag
• Monitor campaign pacing to ensure budgets are spending appropriately relative to plan; flag under- or over-delivery promptly
• Verify landing pages, URLs, and destination functionality prior to and after launch
• Clearly communicate errors, risks, and pacing concerns to senior team members
• Track identified issues through resolution to ensure no gaps in execution
• Build CTV and audio campaigns from approved briefs
• Own recurring audits for an assigned set of clients end to end
• Implement a wider range of approved optimizations (bid adjustments, budget shifts within plan, inventory and audience refinements) with less review
• Help maintain and improve build templates, audit checklists, and anomaly thresholds
• Support a higher volume of campaigns once consistency and trust are established

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience building and managing campaigns in The Trade Desk
• Experience trafficking creatives and tags, including display and video (VAST) formats
• Working knowledge of bidding, frequency management, audience and geo targeting, deals and PMPs, and brand safety and fraud prevention tools
• Understanding of pixel and conversion tracking, including Google Tag Manager and Campaign Manager 360
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose the cause of a delivery or performance change, not just notice it
• The Trade Desk Edge Academy certification preferred; DV360 experience not required (training provided)
• Strong attention to detail and comfort with process-driven, high-volume work
• Ability to work quickly without sacrificing accuracy and to meet deadlines consistently
• Clear written communication skills for internal coordination and issue write-ups
• Familiarity with Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Microsoft Teams

Schedule: Monday – Friday; 9AM – 5PM Pacific Time Zone

Setup: Remote

Why Join STAFFVIRTUAL?

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • HMO Day 1
  • Allowances
  • Attendance bonus
  • Paid time offs
• Company-provided work setup (laptop, monitor, accessories)
• Training, career growth, and global exposure
• A collaborative and supportive team culture

If you're a motivated, client-focused professional who's ready to grow with a company that values people and performance, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and join our dynamic team at STAFFVIRTUAL!