Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Associate Partner Activation Manager

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$96k - $108k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

1–3 years of experience in ad tech, programmatic operations, partner or account management, or a related platform-support role.
Working knowledge of demand-side platforms, including The Trade Desk and DV360, and how audience segments surface, price, and activate within them.
Familiarity with data partner or supply-side platform integrations and segment/taxonomy management.
Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and coordinate across account, product, and engineering teams.
Strong Excel proficiency, including SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, pivot tables, and VLOOKUP.
A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Data, or a related field.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for internal and client-facing contexts.

Responsibilities

Serve as the go-to expert on platform capabilities and limitations for internal teams and external partners and advertisers.
Troubleshoot segment issues before escalation, including platform nuances and expected service-level agreements for modeling and distribution.
Lead onboarding, auditing, and taxonomy strategy for data partners and agencies.
Create and present business reviews for data partners.
Own custom partner reporting and maintain the accuracy of taxonomy pricing and destinations.
File and escalate platform tickets between account teams and Engineering/Product, including access requests, cross-region data bridging, segment permissions, importer and ID mapping, and export capability.
Support identity match testing and onboarding architecture for new data imports using S3 and SFTP.

Desired Qualifications

Direct experience with identity or data partners such as Acxiom, Experian, or ThinkNow.
Familiarity with S3/SFTP data onboarding and audience file-formatting methodology.
Intimate knowledge of programmatic advertising, including demand-side platforms, data management platforms, supply-side platforms, and identity resolution.
Working knowledge of SQL.
Proficiency with customer relationship management and project management tools, including Salesforce, Jira, and Asana.

Salary Range: 96000 to 108000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Advertising is a trillion-dollar global industry split into silos that don't talk to each other, and every platform grades its own homework. Samba is the independent layer in the middle. Over the last two decades we built our own technology to understand media at scale, across streaming, linear and the web, in 40+ countries. The Samba Knowledge Graph ties it together: one connected map of content, audiences and outcomes that the industry has never had. As media workflows go agentic, the quality of decisions is only as good as the data behind it. We built the tools to put it to work. Join us this year and help build what the industry runs on.

The Associate Partner Operations Manager owns partner onboarding, taxonomy strategy, and pricing operations for Samba's data syndication platform (“Gravity”), while acting as the technical liaison between account/partner teams and Engineering. This role sits at the intersection of Programmatic and Technical Account Management, Product and Partnerships — coordinating cross-functional project work as partners onboard, model, and distribute their datasets for syndication. It combines hands-on platform and ticket work with partner-facing strategy, taxonomy guidance, and both internal and external coordination.

Core Responsibilities

Serve as the go-to expert on platform capabilities and limitations, supporting both internal teams and external partners/advertisers.

Troubleshoot segment issues ahead of escalation — understanding nuances of platforms and expected SLAs for for modeling and distribution.

Lead onboarding, auditing, and taxonomy strategy for data partners and agencies.

Create and present business reviews for data partners.

Own custom partner reporting as required and maintain accuracy of taxonomy pricing and destinations.

File and escalate platform tickets between account teams and Engineering/Product — covering access requests, cross-region data bridging, segment permissions, importer/ID mapping, and export capability.

Support identity match testing and onboarding architecture for new data imports (S3/SFTP).

Required Qualifications

1–3 years of experience in ad tech, programmatic operations, partner/account management, or a related platform-support role.

Working knowledge of DSPs (The Trade Desk, DV360) and how audience segments surface, price, and activate within them.

Familiarity with data partner or SSP integrations and segment/taxonomy management.

Comfort troubleshooting technical issues and coordinating across account, product, and engineering teams.

Eagerness to expand knowledge across programmatic ecosystems, audience targeting, and identity resolution.

Strong Excel proficiency (SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, pivot tables, VLOOKUP).

Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both internal and client-facing contexts.

BA/BS in Marketing, Business, Data, or a related field.

Preferred Experience

Direct experience with identity or data partners such as Acxiom, Experian, or ThinkNow.

Familiarity with S3/SFTP data onboarding and audience file formatting methodology.

Intimate knowledge of Programmatic advertising with working knowledge of DMPs, DSPs, SSPs, and identity resolution.

Working knowledge of SQL.

Proficiency with CRM and project management tools (Salesforce, Jira, Asana, etc.)

About the Company

Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Samba TV collects and analyzes TV viewing data to help advertisers, broadcasters, and content creators understand what people watch. It embeds its technology in about 35 million smart TVs across 20 brands, creating a large viewership database and a household identity graph. The system works by using a proprietary multi-source panel from participating TVs to gather viewing activity, then turning that data into insights and analytics that clients can use to plan ads, optimize content, and measure performance. What sets Samba TV apart is the size and scope of its data: it claims the largest end-to-end viewership dataset and identity graph in the industry, with a panel hundreds of times larger than typical measurements and broad brand partnerships, while offering privacy controls for viewers who opt in or out. The company aims to provide data-driven, actionable insights to improve advertising effectiveness and content delivery across the global smart TV market.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $75.7M
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2008

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