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WPP Media

AI-native global media services network

Programmatic Account Manager

Performance & Paid MarketingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • More than 3 years of significant, successful experience in programmatic media buying, ideally at a media agency.
  • Proven experience managing complex digital campaigns with substantial client-facing responsibilities, including developing recommendations, presenting them, and managing client relationships.
  • Advanced proficiency with programmatic buying platforms, including DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon Ads, and Google Ads.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Analytics for analyzing performance, extracting insights, and preparing clear, strategic campaign reports.
  • Current knowledge of digital media buying strategies, including strategies for branding and video objectives.
  • Familiarity with brand-safety and ad-verification methods and tools such as IAS is desirable.
  • Fluent written and spoken English is essential for managing international accounts and collaborating with global teams.
  • Ability to manage a client portfolio independently, anticipate needs, and propose initiatives.
  • Strong organization and attention to detail to ensure campaign quality, budget compliance, and accurate deliverables.
  • Ability to understand and respond to client expectations and provide effective client service.
  • Ability to collaborate, share knowledge and feedback, and work effectively with varied contacts, including distributed teams.
  • Ability to analyze complex situations, identify campaign optimization opportunities, and develop practical solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor the market and meet regularly with media, data, and technology partners; attend platform product updates.
  • Receive, analyze, and clarify briefs; check that information is complete, discuss and challenge briefs with the agency, identify the expected deliverable, and communicate a response timeline.
  • Develop programmatic and/or direct-buy display strategies and recommendations based on briefs, covering creative, buying strategy, inventory, targeting, and technology, with support from the AMS or team lead; liaise with partners, negotiate buying costs when no deal exists or for direct buys, prepare responses using existing templates, and present recommendations to clients.
  • Define campaign tracking plans, ensure tracking elements are correctly implemented, verify loads in demand-side platforms and reporting from third-party tools such as DAR and IAS, ensure ad verification is implemented according to GroupM and/or advertiser standards, coordinate pre-bid checks with ad operations, send and maintain technical specifications, receive creative assets, check their compliance on receipt before audit, and submit them for audit.
  • Program, monitor, and report on campaigns. For programmatic campaigns, set them up in the selected demand-side platforms, apply quality parameters such as viewability and site or exclusion lists, verify the setup using internal tools, and manage campaign delivery. For direct buys, send campaign materials, apply quality parameters, review creative previews, check live placements, and manage campaign delivery.
  • Ensure campaign delivery, results, and activation quality; produce regular reporting, identify and implement campaign optimizations, explain the optimizations and their objectives in reports, and maintain the tracking document used by each team.
  • Determine the desired campaign review format, create the final campaign review, explain results and the impact of optimizations, including learnings, savings where applicable, and next steps, and present the review to clients.
  • Track campaign budgets and data impressions, and complete the buying reconciliation at the end of each campaign.
  • Maintain regular in-person contact with agency counterparts and, where possible, arrange a shared agency-office day.
  • Guide an Account Executive or work-study trainee in their training.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in programmatic media buying acquired at a media agency.
  • Familiarity with brand-safety and ad-verification tools such as IAS.

About the Company

WPP Media

AI-native global media services network

WPP Media is a global media services arm that manages more than $60 billion in annual advertising investments for leading brands. It operates across a network of established agencies (Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom) and combines media planning, data, production, and commerce through its proprietary WPP Open platform. Its Open Intelligence data model uses real-time behavioral signals to drive predictive, faster, and smarter marketing campaigns. The company positions itself as an AI-native media collective, consolidating capabilities under a single technology stack to improve efficiency and scale for advertisers. Its goal is to help clients buy and optimize media more effectively by leveraging integrated data, advanced analytics, and automated execution at scale.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2003

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