Senior Programmatic Trader - FreeWheel

FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers - empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal - results for marketers. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.
Job Summary
Beeswax, acquired by FreeWheel, created the Bidder-as-a-Service™ concept because we believe that every advertiser should have power, flexibility, and transparency when buying advertising programmatically. We offer our employees a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. Summary The Senior Programmatic Trader will be a fundamental part of the Beeswax Managed Service team, which ensures that some of our most strategic customers achieve success on our platform by managing their campaign operations and optimizations. As a Senior Programmatic Trader, your day-to-day will consist of campaign setup, creative trafficking, troubleshooting, analyzing reporting, and finding answers to some of our clients' most complex questions. The Senior Programmatic Trader is also expected to assist Account Management in helping those customers with their in-housing efforts by communicating and documenting best practices used by our team. In addition to contributing to external documentation, this role is also expected to regularly contribute to our internal documentation.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities

• Become a product and domain expert in programmatic buying on the Beeswax platform
• Operate and optimize your book of campaigns to achieve stated goals
• Devise data-driven tactics, strategies, and frameworks for optimization for new campaigns
• Work with Account Management and Sales to develop achievable campaign goals
• Provide ongoing feedback to our Product and Account Management teams to improve our offerings of scalable solutions
• Provide training and education for both internal and external teams on process, platform, and optimization best practices.
• Analyze, understand, create, define, document, iterate on Programmatic Trading processes and/or tools.

• Communicate directly with clients as needed to support Account Management and Sales teams.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years working in digital Advertising Operations, Programmatic Trading, or a related position, at either of the following: SSP, DSP, Agency Trade Desk, Ad Network, Publisher
• Experience with SQL
• Willingness to challenge status-quo and provide ideas for continuous process and product improvement
• Understands programmatic standards and specifications (i.e. VAST, OpenRTB)
• Ability to regularly collaborate across functions in pursuit of joint goals and objectives
• Ability to be adaptable, independent, and manage time effectively
• Excellent communication skills; comfort engaging with varied audiences both written and verbally
• A strong sense of ownership for problem solving
• An attitude of continuous learning and investment in bettering themselves and exploring new operating concepts
• A self-starting, proactive, "roll-up-the-sleeves" mentality to get the job done
• Skill in building trust with teams and individuals (both local and remote) through effective interpersonal skills and action-oriented execution

Additional, desired qualifications

• Experience working with Python and APIs
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, SmartSheet, JIRA, Aha! And Confluence
• Background in Advertising Technology (AdTech)
• Experience working with Objectives and Key Results (OKR) and/or KPI frameworks

Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
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Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years
Salary:
National Pay Range: $57,391.05 USD-$134,510.27 USD
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
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