Associate Director, Programmatic (Auto)

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El Segundo, CA, USA
Hybrid
125K-130K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role
The Associate Director of Programmatic leads the programmatic media strategy, mentors the team, collaborates with clients, and ensures optimal campaign operations while driving business development.
Summary Generated by Built In
Canvas Worldwide dares to be the challenger the ad industry needs. Do you "Challenge the Comfortable?" Then you'll fit right in here at Canvas.
 
Recognized as one of Ad Age's "Best Places to Work" for three consecutive years, Canvas Worldwide is an independent media agency committed to providing creative solutions for brands that challenge the status quo. Our clients include Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, MGM, Zillow and McDonald’s (to name a few…).
 
Our agency cultivates an environment where all are welcome to push outside their comfort zones to solve problems in new ways. We encourage the team to be its best by creating the most positive workplace experience for all. For instance, we outpace the industry on diversity and inclusion AND offer continuous training and workshops for career development. So, if you dare to challenge the comfortable… then keep reading.

Strategic Responsibilities

  • Work with Clients and Business leads to co-develop strategies that fully leverage programmatic media’s potential.
  • Maintain strong knowledge in the sourcing, cultivation and evaluation the unique talent skillsets required to excel in the programmatic media management
  • Collaborate with Clients, the marketplace and Canvas internal teams on data-driven targeting and measurement strategies. Participate in partner evaluation and procurement processes in conjunction with Canvas data leads
  • Work with platform partners to develop strategic framework promoting innovation, intelligent utilization, efficient operation and constantly improving Canvas team member proficiency
  • Contribute to business development efforts crafting integrated strategies and leveraging expertise and capabilities of data-driven media

Leadership

  • Serve as mentor to programmatic team, delivering guidance on business challenges and helping to remove barriers to team excellence
  • Educate internal and external teams on the programmatic landscape
  • Support the programmatic team in their collaboration with Clients and other Canvas teams, ensuring the team’s perspective and needs are reflecting in planning commitments
  • Continuously educate programmatic team members on the holistic media landscape and maintain currency with relevant marketplace developments
  • Work with direct investment teams to direct integrated approaches with programmatic to achieve client reach and frequency objectives
  • Work with platform partners and programmatic team members to ensure optimal campaign management operations
  • Leverage the empowerment of the leadership role to propose new ways of working that improve efficiency and team performance

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in programmatic media
  • 3+ years mentoring and developing staff
  • Strong presentation skills, ability to communicate to internal managers and clients
  • 2+ years working in TTD & DV360
  • Possess a strong and proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with flexibility and communicate priorities to direct reports
  • High level proficiency and knowledge of Microsoft Office products as well as planning tools
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to maintain strong internal, external, and client relationships
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

Salary and Benefits
Actual base salary is determined upon factors such as experience, qualifications, training, certifications, and internal equity. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Base salary is part of a total rewards package that includes highly competitive benefits like generous medical, dental, vision, pet insurance, commuter benefits, disability and life insurance coverage, 401(k) matching, up to 14 holidays per year, a “Do Good Day,” and unlimited PTO.

Additional perks include employee social and wellness events, a DEI Council, auto purchase rebate program, monthly wellness allowance, and in-office amenities such as fresh kombucha and an in-house barista inside our beautiful, new vibrant El Segundo office.

In-Office Work Schedule
This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 2 days in-office per week.

Canvas Worldwide is an Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

CA Applicants: Canvas Worldwide practices Fair Chance Hiring

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in programmatic media
  • 3+ years mentoring and developing staff
  • Strong presentation skills
  • 2+ years working in TTD & DV360
  • High level proficiency in Microsoft Office
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The Company
HQ: Los Angeles, California
497 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Named “Most Innovative Agency” by Campaign US, Canvas Worldwide is an independent media agency that provides ingenious solutions for brands looking to challenge the status quo. And as a mission-based agency, our rallying cry, "Challenge the Comfortable," is our team philosophy to push outside our comfort zones to solve problems in new ways – because there can be no greatness without enduring a bit of discomfort. Canvas was created to embrace the rapid pace of change in the industry with the belief that future viability means reimagining what's possible. This fresh, strategic approach to media marketing services has produced an environment in which it’s possible to fearlessly try the unusual. Under the “Challenge the Comfortable” banner, the Canvas team dedicates itself to getting outside of our comfort zones and resisting the conventional. Launched in 2015, we are dual-headquartered in Los Angeles and New York, with regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, Denver and Atlanta. Canvas Worldwide services clients such as Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Starz, MGM Studios, McDonald's and more. At Canvas, assumptions are left behind, everything is questioned, and in the process, the unexpected—sometimes even magical—happens daily. So, if you’re bold enough to Challenge the Comfortable… then we want YOU to come work for the most innovative agency in the country!

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