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.