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Programmatic Campaign Operations Specialist Trader

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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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