Senior Programmatic Manager

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Programmatic Advertising Manager to join us at Realtime Agency - a fast-growing performance marketing agency.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing programmatic advertising campaigns across multiple channels and platforms, and communicating campaign successes to our clients.

You will also collaborate with our media buying teams across social & search to ensure campaigns are set up, tracked, and optimized for reporting and maximum performance. You will be passionate about performance, with a proven track record of success with programmatic campaigns, and a demonstrated ability to manage multiple accounts and projects simultaneously to meet key objectives and deadlines.

You will Be Awesome - with strong experience working across multiple accounts, you will deliver the best of the best to your clients, ensuring strong rapports are fostered and maintained.

You will Dream Big – continually investigating new opportunities and tactics, ensuring fresh thinking is brought to the table, creating bespoke strategies for your client, and identifying solutions to meet their needs so you can take them to new levels of growth beyond their expectations.

You will Proceed with Purpose - proactively collaborating with our Client Services team and other operational channel teams to ensure campaign activation, reporting, and optimisation is delivered on time and without a hitch.

You will Be Big hearted - you will demonstrate kindness, integrity, and respect for your clients and your colleagues; taking pride in your work, and collaborating in a kind and respectful way with others.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage client accounts on a day-to-day basis, providing weekly decks to update on performance reports, results and new tests/ strategies
• Work with the wider client services team and vendors to create media plans to help accomplish campaign objectives
• Maintain bulletproof organization of client spend, budgets, naming conventions, and account structure
• Develop expertise in the use of Verizon Media DSP, The Trade Desk, Xandr Invest, and Google Marketing Platform to execute various buys
• Drive new ideas and execution to improve performance of social campaigns including account structure, platform, bid strategy, ad format, targeting, demographics, keyword expansion, landing page optimisation
• Execute tests, collect and analyze data, identify trends and insights to maximize performance
• Collaborate with other marketing teams to create unified, cross-channel campaigns
• Track, report and analyze website analytics and campaigns
• Manage campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs and reconciling discrepancies
• Identify and present new opportunities/areas of growth that will help continue the development of the paid channels.
• Media planning, including advising on programmatic advertising strategies for verticals including mobile, connected tv, display, pre-roll, native, out of home, and audio ads.
• Manage programmatic campaigns across multiple channels and platforms (display, mobile, video, social, etc.) using our in-house buying tools.
• Monitor campaign performance and adjust bidding strategies and targeting to optimize results
• Utilize media-buying tools including (but definitely not limited to) Apple Search Ads, The Trade Desk, Yahoo DSP, Xandr Invest, StackAdapt, DV360, Search Ads 360, Taboola, Moloco, and Google Campaign Manager.
• Identify areas for optimisation and recommend solutions to improve campaign performance
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, technology, and best practices

You’re the right person for this role if you have:

• 4-5 + years of experience managing programmatic advertising campaigns
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to analyze and interpret data
• Very strong understanding & experience using Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and other data visualization tools.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work directly with clients, ask hard questions, and push yourself and the team to execute at the highest levels.
• Knowledge of programmatic advertising platforms, such as Apple Search Ads, The Trade Desk, Yahoo DSP, StackAdapt, DV360, Xandr Invest, Google Campaign Manager, etc…
• Understanding of digital advertising tracking and attribution technologies
• Experience with programmatic campaign optimization tactics such as bidding strategies, audience targeting, creative optimization, etc.
• Performance-marketing background, particularly in the direct-response, D2C, or e-commerce space.

If you are a self-motivated, data-driven, and client-focused individual with a passion for programmatic advertising and performance marketing, we encourage you to apply.

Introducing Realtime

Realtime Agency is a global, full funnel digital advertising agency. We are positioned in the market as the go to agency solution for the ‘Privacy age’. We have special labs teams leading in measurement (with MMM), Audience, Performance Creative and Marketing Analytics as well as all the traditional media buying teams in Programmatic, Google, Social, Affiliates, SEO, Influencer Marketing, and product feed management.

We help businesses transform their digital buying processes to drive cost efficiency and significant growth by providing a unique, data and audience-driven approach to digital buying.

We support clients in the B2B, DTC space in verticals across retail/ecommerce, healthcare, entertainment, financial/fintech, publications and much more

An independent agency based in the U.K. but with a global footprint, our company has grown to more than 60 Realtimers in Denver (Colorado), DC, London and Manila since our founding in 2018.

As Realtime continues to expand into the leading edge of digital advertising – everything from programmatic linear television, to CTV and podcasts, to conversational commerce on social channels – we are looking to expand our team ahead of what we aim to be our most productive year ever in 2022.

As a services company, we are focused on our people. We introduced a Culture coordinator in 2021 to ensure the fun, wellbeing and development of every individual was supported.

Built your future with Realtime and progress down a path that brings you the most happiness and success

What does RTA offer?

• People First Culture; in the last year we increased our staff happiness by 20%, we have a culture coordinator, team events, learning opportunities and training, company mid-year kick-off, individual awards, Class Pass, and much more.
• Private medical, dental and vision insurance
• 20 days PTO + federal days off, plus 10 days sick leave
• A birthday lie in
• Growth company; we are positioned well in the market as leaders in ‘the privacy age’
• We're a global company with international work and travel opportunities
• Digital learning opportunities – programmatic, Google, Influencer, SEO, Affiliate marketing to truly understand the full marketing mix, allowing you to go on and excel as a fully rounded digital leader
• Be in the mix of industry change and trends – learn how we have pivoted into the privacy age and our plans for moving into the next wave of web3.0 and Metaverse.
• Fast progression routes as the company continues to rapidly grow.
• An excellent bonus scheme
• A fun, friendly working environment