Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brkthru is a digital media solutions provider that creates and manages paid digital media campaigns for local, regional, and national brands. The Senior Media Trader owns the performance and execution of complex programmatic campaigns, ensuring proper structure, pacing, optimization, and achievement of performance and margin goals. The role also serves as a subject matter expert, resolves campaign issues, drives testing and innovation, and shares best practices across the team.
Responsibilities
- Own campaign performance and execution
- Accountable for the end-to-end performance of complex, high-priority programmatic campaigns. Ensure campaigns are structured correctly, pace as expected, and deliver on performance and margin goals
- Maintain performance visibility and operational discipline
- Stay ahead of campaign performance through consistent review and optimization. Identify pacing risks, delivery issues, and performance gaps early, and take action before they impact outcomes
- Act as subject matter expert in programmatic performance
- Serve as a go-to resource for campaign strategy and performance. Translate platform data into clear insights and recommendations, and connect campaign decisions to broader client and business goals
- Own escalation and problem resolution
- Serve as the primary escalation point for campaign performance and execution issues. Resolve challenges independently and escalate only when there is meaningful business risk, with clear context and a recommended path forward
- Drive testing, optimization, and innovation
- Evaluate new platform features, buying approaches, and optimization strategies. Bring forward recommendations and apply learnings to improve performance, efficiency, and repeatability across campaigns
- Contribute to team capability and knowledge sharing
- Share best practices, reinforce standards, and support adoption of new tools and workflows. Contribute to the overall capability of the team, not just individual campaign performance
- Maintain clear communication and upward visibility
- Keep leadership informed of performance, risks, and opportunities without prompting. Provide clear updates with context and recommended actions
Skills
- Minimum 6 years of experience in programmatic media buying, with ownership of campaign performance across multiple accounts
- Experience managing complex campaigns with accountability for pacing, delivery, and performance outcomes
- Experience working in a performance-driven, client-facing or agency environment
- Strong proficiency in programmatic platforms (e.g., DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon, Beeswax) with the ability to execute and optimize campaigns independently
- Ability to manage campaign performance across pacing, delivery, and margin, and take action to improve results
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into clear insights and decisions
- Ability to identify risks early and resolve issues with minimal oversight
- Clear and direct communication skills, with the ability to share insights, recommendations, and updates with both peers and leadership
- Strong attention to detail and execution accuracy across campaign setup and optimization
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members
- Experience contributing to process improvements or best practice development
- In-person attendance is required for all company-wide offsite meetings (typically two annually), in alignment with company policy
- Additional travel may be required for team or department-specific offsites to support collaboration, knowledge sharing, and performance alignment
- Candidates must reside within select locations and metro areas to ensure accessibility for travel, alignment with team operations, and for in-person collaboration
- Experience testing new buying strategies, platform features, or optimization approaches
Benefits
- All travel will be covered in accordance with company expense guidelines.
- Remote-first work environment
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