DSP Lead Specialist (Confidential Search)

Overview

Our client is a global marketing and advertising agency built to help brands thrive repeatedly, with a fully distributed team across the US, LATAM, Europe, and Asia.

Key responsibilities

• Own DSP strategy, campaign structure, audience approach, and inventory curation to ensure consistent, scalable, and performance-safe execution across clients.
• Serve as the first escalation point for pacing issues, measurement integrity concerns, supply quality risks, and delivery constraints across the DSP book of business.
• Partner with leadership to define and evolve the DSP service offering, establishing quality standards and execution frameworks that support consistency and growth.
• Validate feasibility for new business opportunities, advise on programmatic use cases and inventory strategies, and support expansion of the programmatic book of business.
• Stay close to the work by directly managing priority accounts while maintaining visibility across all DSP clients.

Why join

• Work globally, stay flexible: join a fully distributed team across the US, LATAM, Europe, and Asia.
• Meaningful impact from day one: your work directly influences client outcomes and how the programmatic practice grows.
• A culture built on curiosity, transparency, and ownership: we share context and empower people to make decisions.
• High-caliber teammates: collaborate with specialists across Paid Media, SEO, Creative, Analytics, and Client Success.
• Learning as a default: we're building something new — experimentation and growth are part of the job.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on programmatic/DSP experience, with at least 1–2 years in a lead or senior capacity.
• Proven track record managing campaigns across multiple clients with significant media budgets.
• Agency background strongly preferred.
• Deep platform proficiency in at least one major DSP — DV360 or The Trade Desk is mandatory.
• Strong command of audience strategy, inventory curation, and campaign structure best practices.
• Solid understanding of measurement frameworks: viewability, brand safety, attribution, and incrementality.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving delivery, pacing, and performance issues independently.
• Ability to build and communicate DSP strategy, not just execute it.
• Deep understanding of the programmatic ecosystem: DSPs, SSPs, PMPs, data providers, and measurement vendors.
• Familiarity with how DSP fits within a broader cross-channel media mix.
• Clear communicator — able to translate programmatic complexity into plain language for internal and external audiences.
• Upper-intermediate to advanced English proficiency required.