Programmatic Operations Executive
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OpenWeb is on a mission to increase the quality of conversations online. We build technologies that create thriving and engaged communities reduce toxicity and increase safety improving the quality of civil discourse and supporting independent journalism. Today OpenWeb works with more than 5000 top-tier publishers (including News Corp Yahoo CBS Fox News Hearst Refinery 29 and more) and hosts 150 million monthly active users.
Founded in 2015 OpenWeb has over 250 employees between New York City London Paris San Diego Toronto and Tel Aviv. We are backed by world-class investors including Georgian Insight Partners Index Ventures AltaIR Capital and more. Were crafting technology that brings people together and fosters healthy discussion. It starts with us. Are you in
About the role:
OpenWeb is dedicated to empowering publishers with innovative solutions that drive engagement and foster thriving communities. Our platform works with thousands of publishers globally and turns reader-engagement into meaningful brand sage and monetisable communities. As we scale our programmatic operations were seeking a versatile and driven professional to join our team in the UK and help lead this next stage of growth.
What Youll Get To Do:
- Collaborate with product sales support and partner success teams to operationalise new product strategies and ensure flawless delivery across new technical implementations
- Act as the technical and operational anchor for your set portfolio of DSPs / SSPs maintain their overall activity and actively pushing new OW products.
- Monitor overall SSP performance identifying any potential issues and troubleshooting where necessary
- Identify areas for growth and upselling within the business and push these with the sales publishers and partner success with the aim of SSP growth.
- Build and maintain robust operational processes documentation playbooks and dashboards to support efficient scale-up of programmatic operations.
- Drive quality and compliance: ensure brand-safety viewability fraud prevention latency and user experience standards are met with Demand partners and our brand clients
- Act as a key interface for new publisher or advertiser integrations: coordinating internal teams (tech product) and external partners (DSPs/SSPs) to onboard quickly and smoothly.
- Liaise with support to fix key bugs and issues which may unlock crucial demand from DSP/SSP partners
- Provide regular insights and reporting to senior leadership: e.g. product performance & ROI revenue yield operational performance and make recommendations for improvement.
- Track key KPIs within the programmatic business unit launching new products and initiatives with key stakeholders
The Skills and Experience You Bring:
- Minimum of 3-5 years experience in programmatic ad operations yield optimisation ad tech or a related digital monetisation environment (publisher or agency or supply-side/platform).
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a business digital marketing engineering related field or STEM subject.
- Strong grounding in programmatic fundamentals: knowledge of DSPs SSPs ad exchanges header bidding data strategies full funnel advertising
- Proven operational mindset: comfortable managing an account portfolio troubleshooting in real time working with data and supporting scale.
- Technical / analytical capability: ability to interpret operational / campaign data build dashboards or ad-hoc reporting identify trends and drive actionable optimisations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills: youll work cross-functionally and externally so being clear organised and proactive matters.
- Comfort with ambiguity and growth mode: youll help shape processes and tooling rather than simply follow established routines.
- Strong attention to detail reliability and quality-oriented mindset: in programmatic small slip-ups can cost revenue or advertiser trust.
- Bonus / preferable: Experience with newer formats (CTV/OLV) first-party data strategies advanced measurement (e.g. attention viewability brand impact) or building ad operations in a fast-growing company data analysis coding (SQL/Python/R)
What Youll Get:
- Competitive salary benefits growth opportunities as we scale internationally.
- Be part of a fast-growing mission-driven company that is transforming the way online communities and content monetisation work.
- Join a team where you will have real operational ownership youll influence how programmatic runs not just execute.
- Cross-functional exposure: youll touch product tech monetisation sales publishers and advertisers.
- Hybrid working model (London) giving flexibility while being close to teams and partners.
The OpenWeb Culture
We offer a dynamic and unconventional work environment that spans from NYC to Tel Aviv bringing together a diverse group of world class and high-caliber techies wordsmiths entrepreneurs and creative thinkers. We empower every individual across our global team to be a catalyst for change and strive to create a work environment where you can have the utmost autonomy over your role and projects from start to finish. If you want to join an innovative tech company where you can challenge yourself have the freedom to own your work and make a lasting impact then you have a spot within our growing community!
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