Senior Programmatic Operations Lead

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🕒 August 28

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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VirtuHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

VirtuHire is a remote recruiting and employer-of-record service focused on connecting businesses with vetted South African talent. The company rigorously vets candidates and provides a curated shortlist, interview scheduling, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and full employee management. It offers a no-fee recruitment process, advertises cost savings versus local hires, and emphasizes English proficiency, university-educated candidates, and industry experience. Metrics provided include clients served, hires made, and a high retention rate. VirtuHire positions itself as a partner handling hiring, EOR services, and HR administration to let clients focus on growth.

📋 Description

• Lead the dedicated programmatic delivery function and serve as the senior execution authority across MediaPath's campaign portfolio • Architect complex programmatic campaign structures across multiple DSPs and channels • Oversee campaign execution, pacing, optimisation, inventory quality, and troubleshooting • Own QA standards and approve complex or high-risk campaigns before launch • Provide senior-level troubleshooting and diagnose delivery issues beyond basic pacing problems • Guide PMP and deal activation, supply troubleshooting, and inventory quality management • Coach Programmatic Campaign Operations Specialists and establish repeatable SOPs and operating standards • Partner with the Client Account Manager on technical client issues • Join client or agency calls when senior programmatic expertise is required • Work with Data Engineering and Dashboard teams to keep campaign structures and reporting definitions aligned • Identify opportunities for automation, workflow improvements, and increased delivery capacity • Provide senior oversight across the wider programmatic delivery team • Ensure campaigns launch accurately and on time, high-risk work is corrected before reaching clients, pacing and performance issues are proactively addressed, and QA standards are maintained • Provide senior technical ownership for programmatic delivery • This is a senior technical delivery and operations role, not a sales position; it does not own commercial negotiations, pricing, renewals, upselling, or DSP vendor contracts

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on programmatic trading or campaign operations experience • Ideally 7–10 years of relevant experience • Significant independent responsibility for programmatic campaign delivery • Deep practical experience across multiple DSPs • Strong preference for experience with DV360, Basis, Simpli.fi, Amazon DSP, Meta, and YouTube • Proven experience managing high-volume, multi-line-item campaign builds • Strong troubleshooting, optimisation, and QA judgment • Ability to identify and resolve complex delivery issues • Strong written and verbal communication • Ability to coach and develop junior programmatic operators • Comfortable working in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment • Experience with SSP and PMP curation • PMP/deal troubleshooting experience • Experience with ad servers and verification vendors • Experience with CTV/OTT and online video • Experience with regulated-category policy escalations • Previous team-lead or management experience • Experience working with U.S. or international agency clients