Monks
Specialist, Media Operations - Programmatic
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The Media Transformation team focuses on strategic media planning and hands‑on activation of social channels, including tagging, trafficking, buying, and more, with a goal to achieve media and business objectives. We ensure consistency, governance, and support around platform usage and activation activities, and aid in all ongoing building, buying, optimization, and reporting efforts.
In this role, you will work on a Media Transformation Engagement, providing a dedicated, embedded team to support clients’ in‑housing initiatives. You will act as an extension of the client’s in‑house team to manage, optimize, and report Social campaigns, and contribute to strategy and planning. Your work will transform the client’s media buying capabilities through efficient workflows, best‑practice consolidation, and platform‑optimization governance.
Responsibilities
Own clients’ Programmatic media efforts: campaign planning, trafficking, setup, QA, and optimization across platforms such as CM360, DV360 (YouTube), Amazon DSP, and The Trade Desk.
Manage client communications, providing updates and addressing questions.
Work effectively with team members to complete day‑to‑day tasks, coordinate cross‑functional projects, and influence decisions and outcomes.
Create new processes based on industry‑leading best practices, and identify and optimize process inefficiencies or gaps for smoother, more efficient workflows.
Formalize well‑run and mature processes into long‑term documentation for future client team reference.
Use internal and external tools and processes for daily tasks, including Slack, GSuite, Salesforce, Workday, etc.
Stay up‑to‑date on Monks offerings and identify opportunities to enhance client services.
Qualifications
2+ years of hands‑on Programmatic campaign management experience in an agency, ad tech company, trading desk, or client‑side role.
Ad Operations experience trafficking, monitoring, and optimizing campaigns in Flashtalking or CM360.
Experience building Programmatic ad campaigns on at least one in‑scope platform: DV360 (YouTube), Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk.
Developing, communicating, and executing digital strategy with minimal guidance.
Conceptual understanding of the digital media landscape and the role of different platforms within the wider ecosystem.
Experience extracting and interpreting useful insights from data sets through proficient use of Excel features: creating and modifying formulas across multiple cells or data ranges, utilizing mathematical operators and advanced functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, VLOOKUP, and IF statements, conducting data analysis with pivot tables and charts.
Skills
Ability to navigate ambiguity and identify and address explicit problems or roadblocks that inhibit success.
Comfortable with client management and day‑to‑day communication.
Ability to run effective internal and/or external meetings, including agenda‑building, note‑taking, material preparation, and identification of action items.
Proven ability to work with and influence cross‑functional teams.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical ideas to multiple audiences both verbally and in writing.
Exceptional ability to learn, adapt, discover, and test new ideas.
Strong organizational and time‑management skills to manage both one‑off tasks and larger initiatives, balancing personal work with team needs and priorities.
Strong self‑ and social‑awareness skills, demonstrating the ability to moderate personal stress and recognize how to best work with clients, teams, and individual peers.
Benefits
Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer‑paid HRA.
Generous PTO and 15 company‑wide holidays.
401(k) with company contribution.
Paid parental leave.
Work‑life balance with an emphasis on personal well‑being.
Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network.
A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.
About Monks Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise‑grade technology, and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a contender in the Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, and has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019‑23). It ranks among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022‑23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020‑24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories.
We are an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves among colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.
This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then‑current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job‑related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range: $75,000—$88,000 USD
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The Media Transformation team focuses on strategic media planning and hands‑on activation of social channels, including tagging, trafficking, buying, and more, with a goal to achieve media and business objectives. We ensure consistency, governance, and support around platform usage and activation activities, and aid in all ongoing building, buying, optimization, and reporting efforts.
In this role, you will work on a Media Transformation Engagement, providing a dedicated, embedded team to support clients’ in‑housing initiatives. You will act as an extension of the client’s in‑house team to manage, optimize, and report Social campaigns, and contribute to strategy and planning. Your work will transform the client’s media buying capabilities through efficient workflows, best‑practice consolidation, and platform‑optimization governance.
Responsibilities
Own clients’ Programmatic media efforts: campaign planning, trafficking, setup, QA, and optimization across platforms such as CM360, DV360 (YouTube), Amazon DSP, and The Trade Desk.
Manage client communications, providing updates and addressing questions.
Work effectively with team members to complete day‑to‑day tasks, coordinate cross‑functional projects, and influence decisions and outcomes.
Create new processes based on industry‑leading best practices, and identify and optimize process inefficiencies or gaps for smoother, more efficient workflows.
Formalize well‑run and mature processes into long‑term documentation for future client team reference.
Use internal and external tools and processes for daily tasks, including Slack, GSuite, Salesforce, Workday, etc.
Stay up‑to‑date on Monks offerings and identify opportunities to enhance client services.
Qualifications
2+ years of hands‑on Programmatic campaign management experience in an agency, ad tech company, trading desk, or client‑side role.
Ad Operations experience trafficking, monitoring, and optimizing campaigns in Flashtalking or CM360.
Experience building Programmatic ad campaigns on at least one in‑scope platform: DV360 (YouTube), Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk.
Developing, communicating, and executing digital strategy with minimal guidance.
Conceptual understanding of the digital media landscape and the role of different platforms within the wider ecosystem.
Experience extracting and interpreting useful insights from data sets through proficient use of Excel features: creating and modifying formulas across multiple cells or data ranges, utilizing mathematical operators and advanced functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, VLOOKUP, and IF statements, conducting data analysis with pivot tables and charts.
Skills
Ability to navigate ambiguity and identify and address explicit problems or roadblocks that inhibit success.
Comfortable with client management and day‑to‑day communication.
Ability to run effective internal and/or external meetings, including agenda‑building, note‑taking, material preparation, and identification of action items.
Proven ability to work with and influence cross‑functional teams.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical ideas to multiple audiences both verbally and in writing.
Exceptional ability to learn, adapt, discover, and test new ideas.
Strong organizational and time‑management skills to manage both one‑off tasks and larger initiatives, balancing personal work with team needs and priorities.
Strong self‑ and social‑awareness skills, demonstrating the ability to moderate personal stress and recognize how to best work with clients, teams, and individual peers.
Benefits
Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer‑paid HRA.
Generous PTO and 15 company‑wide holidays.
401(k) with company contribution.
Paid parental leave.
Work‑life balance with an emphasis on personal well‑being.
Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network.
A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.
About Monks Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise‑grade technology, and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a contender in the Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, and has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019‑23). It ranks among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022‑23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020‑24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories.
We are an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves among colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects.
This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then‑current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job‑related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range: $75,000—$88,000 USD
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