General Purpose of Job:
The Sr Associate, Investment, Programmatic is responsible for facilitating the placement of approved media plans, as well as confirming, monitoring and optimizing digital media orders to ensure the clients’ advertising program is executed flawlessly. The successful Sr Associate provides in-depth analysis that drives programmatic strategy along with a high level of service to assigned accounts. The Sr Associate also displays digital leadership by ensuring that the tactical execution of media planning, placement, and reporting (including post-buy and financial reconciliation) is handled with accuracy and timeliness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate building, launching and maintaining digital campaigns for assigned accounts across digital channel(s) in support of the paid media strategy
• Execute ongoing media activation and maintenance tasks, including but not limited to, account pacing, keyword analysis, optimization, forecasting, etc. as well as working with various internal/external teams to drive an exceptional client experience
• Utilize strong analytical skills to extract insights from campaign data and provide well developed quantitatively based recommendations to accomplish client goals and objectives
• Assist in development of media strategy and recommendations
• Create presentations, regular reporting, and other documents for client use in the evaluation and approval of programmatic campaigns
• Ensure flawless execution of assigned media buys by deploying best practices in digital operations and quality assurance for all campaign launch / modifications
• Provide project management on projects / campaigns within the channel team
• Monitor campaign performance through regular delivery reporting, ensuring buys are properly executed and troubleshoot issues that arise
• Conduct the analysis and interpretation of data trends and develop improvement solutions
• Acts as quality control for overall account output
• Collaborate with leadership and peers to develop solutions that will enhance our operational efficiency, tools, and systems, and improve current workflows
• Watch and check programmatic media trends, tools, technologies, and recommend direction for investment and implementation
• Represent Rise to vendor reps to analyze value and applicability of media vehicles/tactics for plan consideration as needed
• Participate in vendor meetings with current and potential partners

Job Requirements:

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (communications, marketing, advertising, or business)
• Ability to speak, read and write the English language

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Certificates in Google DV360, Google Campaign Manager, and The Trade Desk required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong analytical capabilities with aptitude for developing and determining the optimal ways to setup, deliver, troubleshoot, and QA campaigns
• Superior oral and written communication skills; focus on fostering strong, collaborative relationships at a tactical level
• High comfort level participating in brainstorms and ideation sessions
• Ability to work with a team to think tactically and execute accurately in order to align media execution with client needs
• Passion and desire to continue media and channel education by completing ongoing training and certification programs for platforms, media, leadership and other business skills

• Facilitate building, launching and maintaining digital campaigns for assigned accounts across digital channel(s) in support of the paid media strategy
• Execute ongoing media activation and maintenance tasks, including but not limited to, account pacing, keyword analysis, optimization, forecasting, etc. as well as working with various internal/external teams to drive an exceptional client experience
• Utilize strong analytical skills to extract insights from campaign data and provide well developed quantitatively based recommendations to accomplish client goals and objectives
• Assist in development of media strategy and recommendations
• Create presentations, regular reporting, and other documents for client use in the evaluation and approval of programmatic campaigns
• Ensure flawless execution of assigned media buys by deploying best practices in digital operations and quality assurance for all campaign launch / modifications
• Provide project management on projects / campaigns within the channel team
• Monitor campaign performance through regular delivery reporting, ensuring buys are properly executed and troubleshoot issues that arise
• Conduct the analysis and interpretation of data trends and develop improvement solutions
• Acts as quality control for overall account output
• Collaborate with leadership and peers to develop solutions that will enhance our operational efficiency, tools, and systems, and improve current workflows
• Watch and check programmatic media trends, tools, technologies, and recommend direction for investment and implementation
• Represent Rise to vendor reps to analyze value and applicability of media vehicles/tactics for plan consideration as needed
• Participate in vendor meetings with current and potential partner