Senior Programmatic Media Buyer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Take charge of performance outcomes for Streaming TV and OLV campaigns, overseeing aspects from planning and activation to optimization, analysis, and client-ready reporting.

• Assume responsibility for pacing, KPIs, and issue resolution, including proactive identification of potential problems and driving them to resolution.

• Serve as a client-facing partner for mid-market and enterprise advertisers, effectively communicating performance, insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations in collaboration with internal teams.

• Utilize performance data to enhance results, pinpoint scaling opportunities, and facilitate long-term, sustainable client growth.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to highlight issues, provide feedback, and enhance programmatic tools, workflows, and measurement over time.

• Utilize and aid in the development of AI-powered tools and automation to enhance campaign analysis, optimization workflows, and accelerate learning across accounts.

• Rapidly apply insights across clients, platforms, and strategies in a dynamic AdTech landscape.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of direct experience in digital media, performance marketing, or strategy roles, including the planning, activation, and reporting of media purchases.

• Proficiency in AI, with the capability to effectively utilize AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar) to expedite analysis, problem-solving, communication, and workflow automation, while exercising critical judgment to validate outputs and enhance decision-making.

• Direct experience with at least one major DSP, possessing a strong understanding of bidding strategies and optimization levers, as well as the ability to assess their effectiveness.

• Comprehensive understanding of the marketing and sales funnel, with experience in optimizing performance toward KPIs.

• Strong analytical judgment, capable of prioritizing impact, making tradeoffs, and recommending next steps despite incomplete or imperfect information.

• Demonstrated ambition to advance beyond a purely executional role by assuming greater ownership, tackling ambiguous challenges, enhancing processes, and engaging in more complex client and strategic work.

• Ability to develop and defend a perspective using data, even when there isn’t a clear or “correct” answer.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, while also maintaining a systemic and account-level perspective.

• Effective communicator who can clarify reasons behind events, articulate recommendations, and challenge decisions that lack rationale.

• Strong skills in spreadsheets and presentations (Google Sheets, Slides), including experience with formulas and large datasets, along with a willingness to learn new technologies.

• Preferred: Experience in walled garden platforms (such as Amazon, YouTube, Meta, or similar), with an understanding of their measurement limitations, optimization levers, and associated tradeoffs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary that includes an equity package and quarterly tax assistance (available only for Ukraine tax residents).

• Generous time off policy plus additional company wellness days throughout the year.

• Opportunities for team-building events.

• Annual benefit for continued education.

• Newbie Productivity Perk.

• Monthly stipend.

• Currently remote with the possibility of hybrid work when a physical office is established.