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 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 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. Please mention the word \*\*GLORIOUS\*\* and tag RMTA2LjIxOS4xNjUuMzc= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTA2LjIxOS4xNjUuMzc=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.