Programmatic Senior Executive

Programmatic Senior Executive

Cape Town, South Africa

Hybrid: 2 days in office, 3 days remote

We are working with a leading digital agency in Cape Town that is looking for a Senior Programmatic Executive to join their digital media team.

This role is ideal for someone with strong hands-on programmatic experience who is confident managing campaigns across DV360 or similar DSP platforms. The focus is on campaign setup, optimisation, reporting, performance analysis and helping drive strong results for clients.

You will work across campaign delivery, performance recommendations, budget pacing and stakeholder communication. This is a good opportunity for someone who enjoys the technical side of programmatic but is also looking to build stronger client-facing and strategic experience within a growing agency environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, launch and manage programmatic campaigns across DV360 or related DSP platforms.
• Monitor campaign performance and carry out regular optimisations against client objectives.
• Manage budgets, pacing and delivery to avoid over or underspend.
• Analyse campaign performance, identify trends, troubleshoot issues and recommend improvements.
• Work across display, video, open market, private deals and other programmatic buying routes.
• Support reporting, insights and performance updates for clients and internal teams.
• QA campaign setup, targeting, creative, tracking, naming conventions and platform settings.
• Take ownership of smaller accounts or campaign workstreams, with support from senior team members.
• Collaborate with internal teams across media, analytics, client service and strategy.
• Stay up to date with programmatic best practice, platform updates and industry changes.

Key Requirements

• 1 to 2 years of hands-on programmatic campaign management experience.
• Strong experience using DV360.
• Experience with campaign setup, optimisation, pacing, reporting and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of display, video, open market and private deal environments.
• Comfortable analysing performance data and turning it into clear recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail across QA, tracking, budgets and campaign delivery.
• Confident communicator with the ability to work with internal teams and clients.
• Agency experience would be highly beneficial.
• Experience with CM360, Google Ads, GA4 or Looker Studio would be advantageous.

This role would suit a Programmatic Trader, Programmatic Account Executive, Senior Programmatic Executive, Display Campaign Manager or Paid Media Specialist with strong programmatic exposure who is looking to grow within a specialist agency environment.