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 PurposeExecute 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 ExperienceExperience 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.

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