Programmatic Campaign Operations Specialist Trader

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 MediaPath's established strategy, workflows, and QA standards. This is a hands-on campaign execution role focused on campaign builds, trafficking, pacing, optimisation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. 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. Please mention the word **GLORIOUS** and tag RMTkxLjIxOC4xNjEuMjk= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTkxLjIxOC4xNjEuMjk=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.