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 an established strategy, workflows, and QA standards. This is a hands-on campaign execution role focused on campaign builds, trafficking, pacing, optimisation, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

Requirements

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.