Hybrid Senior Manager, Programmatic Media

at Exverus Media

• Job title: Senior Manager, Programmatic Media
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Los Angeles, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager of Programmatic Media overseeing Amazon DSP campaigns for a major CPG client. Collaborating with teams to optimize media effectiveness and drive business growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of programmatic media strategies across display, video, CTV/OTT, streaming audio, and emerging formats.
• Oversee execution in major DSPs Amazon DSP (in addition to DV360 and The Trade Desk), ensuring accurate setup, pacing, optimization, and delivery.
• Monitor campaign health and performance daily, identifying opportunities for optimization across bids, creative, audiences, and inventory sources.
• Ensure flawless trafficking, creative delivery, and compliance with brand safety, viewability, and suitability standards.
• Oversee QA process, workflow documentation, and operational excellence across all campaign activations.
• Manage all financial aspects of programmatic investments, including forecasting, pacing, billing, insertion orders, and reconciliations.
• Deliver actionable campaign analysis, synthesizing insights into strategic recommendations that drive measurable outcomes.
• Partner with integrated planning, creative, and analytics teams to ensure cohesive campaign execution and data-driven storytelling.
• Serve as the primary programmatic point of contact for client stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of programmatic media experience, including strategy and activation.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Amazon DSP (as well as other major DSPs: The Trade Desk, and DV360) and related ad-tech platforms.
• Proven success managing significant budgets and optimizing programmatic campaigns.
• Strong analytical skills—comfortable with campaign data, performance storytelling, and data visualization tools.
• Amazon Marketing Cloud experience preferred: audience creation and reporting.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience managing client relationships.
• Strategic mindset and ability to connect programmatic performance to marketing and business goals.
• Experience managing programmatic media for CPG or other large-scale, brand-focused advertisers.
• Familiarity with identity solutions, audience segmentation, and data partnership integrations.
• Understanding of brand safety, verification, and programmatic measurement best practices.
• Comfort with tag management, ad operations, and troubleshooting campaign discrepancies.

Benefits

• Transparent path for growth and professional progress
• Health benefits + company match 401k
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote position potential
• Tight-knit team that works together and has fun together
• A culture of creativity, collaboration, respect for work effort, and transparency
• Clients who are professional, respectful, and open to creative ideas
• Ownership to build client relationships, mentor junior team members and practice leadership visibility within the agency