Senior Ad Tech Specialist

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

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Refinery89

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Marketing • Advertising • SaaS

Refinery89 is a company that specializes in ad tech solutions, focusing on monetizing ads for publishers to maximize their revenue. They offer a variety of services including interest-driven targeting, programmatic demand access, and detailed ad performance insights. Refinery89 positions itself as a reliable partner for digital monetization, assisting clients with personalized service and cutting-edge technology.

📋 Description

• Own complex technical issues that Operations or Development teams have been unable to resolve • Investigate tag defects, rendering failures, consent issues, bid path problems, and unexpected revenue behavior • Reproduce issues using live publisher inventory and controlled staging environments • Identify root causes and distinguish structural limitations from configuration problems that can be resolved • Produce clear technical specifications or patched tag implementations before handing work over to Development • Investigate publisher implementations directly at browser level • Use Prebid debugging, network requests, browser consoles, HAR files, and consent string inspection • Validate request ordering, consent propagation, and bidding behavior against intended configuration • Confirm fixes in live environments before considering an issue resolved • Perform structured audits across publisher monetization stacks • Review Prebid configuration, Google Ad Manager, Amazon APS, CMP and TCF implementation, floor models, ad units, identity solutions, video, SSP health, and bidder performance • Score findings and produce action plans prioritized by impact and severity • Track technical changes across Google, Amazon APS, Prebid.js, SSP partners, and the IAB Tech Lab • Assess ecosystem changes affecting the Refinery89 stack and publisher implementations • Translate findings into technical recommendations and escalate decisions requiring Product or Development involvement • Support phased technical rollouts using defined success metrics • Establish validation criteria and rollback conditions • Test implementations in staging environments before Development handoff • Monitor performance following deployment and validate results against agreed thresholds

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in programmatic advertising technology, preferably within publisher monetization or the supply side • Significant hands on experience diagnosing and debugging live advertising environments • Deep working knowledge of Prebid.js, including configuration, adapters, modules, identity solutions, floors, and debugging • Ability to inspect and understand bidder adapter source code when documentation alone is insufficient • Strong technical knowledge of Google Ad Manager, including line items, pricing rules, AdX, dynamic allocation, GPT implementations, and MCM models • Strong understanding of IAB TCF 2.x and GDPR consent mechanics, including how consent is propagated across Prebid, GAM, and Amazon APS • Understanding of OpenRTB and supply chain transparency standards including ads.txt, sellers.json, and schain • Strong JavaScript knowledge, with the ability to read, modify, and validate production advertising tags • Advanced browser developer tools skills including network inspection, HAR analysis, and console debugging • Ability to write structured technical documentation that a developer can execute without requiring extensive additional explanation • Professional English proficiency at C1/C2 level • Previous professional experience in AdTech is mandatory

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote working within compatible EU time zones • A temporary 6 month contractor agreement with the possibility of extension • 50% coverage of the standard Sanitas private health insurance plan • The opportunity to work directly on complex publisher monetization environments and real world programmatic infrastructure • An international team working across AdTech, technology, data, and publisher operations