Job Description
Job Description
Role: Senior Programmatic Trader
Location: Melbourne
What you’ll do
At MiQ, we’re a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies, and our people are at the heart of everything we do. No matter the role or location, we’re united by a shared vision: to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.
As a Senior Programmatic Trader, you’ll play a key role in delivering outstanding client outcomes across Australia and New Zealand. You’ll own campaign performance end to end, use data to inform buying decisions, and help drive results against both client KPIs and internal commercial goals.
Campaign execution
Deliver strong campaign performance across a diverse portfolio of accounts in Australia and New Zealand.
Take ownership of campaign execution, optimisation and performance monitoring across your portfolio, working with central and support teams where relevant to deliver strong client and commercial outcomes.
Use data to improve buying decisions and consistently overdeliver against client KPIs and internal profit objectives.
Bring hands-on experience with DSPs including DV360, The Trade Desk and Yahoo.
Experience with paid social platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit is a plus.
Portfolio management
Manage campaigns with a strong focus on profitability and commercial outcomes.
Balance portfolio growth objectives with margin and profitability targets across a range of campaign types.
Retain and grow client portfolios by exceeding KPIs, delivering meaningful insights and building strong relationships.
Identify and recommend cross-channel diversification opportunities that strengthen performance, deepen client investment and expand use of MiQ’s products and solutions.
Collaboration
Communicate clearly with Sales and Account Services’ teams on campaign progress, product capabilities and areas of opportunity.
Proactively engage Sales team to position MiQ’s products and capabilities and support growth strategies across multiple regions.
Take initiative in supporting teammates and delivering training or knowledge-sharing sessions.
Partner closely with your Trader Manager and Trading Director to deliver client KPIs, support business profitability, and run product test-and-learns.
Work with MiQ’s global central teams across ad operations, pre-campaign analysis, post-campaign reporting, troubleshooting and client communication.
Help manage client expectations effectively during periods of volatility or change.
Client Engagement
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of MiQ’s full commercial offering including; products, solutions, data capabilities, pricing models, and value propositions, to effectively position our services with clients and to inform strategic trading and campaign decisions.
Build and nurture strong client relationships by acting as a trusted advisor on MiQ’s programmatic and data solutions, leading regular performance insights, proactively identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and ensuring client objectives are consistently translated into clear, actionable media plans.
Support Sales and Account Services to deliver best-in-market QBRs by providing trading and product inputs, preparing performance narratives, and joining client meetings to explain campaign results and recommendations.
Deliver timely, relevant insights and ideas aligned to client objectives.
Communicate complex trading concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders.
Own the trading narrative for QBRs, strategic reviews or client pitches, ensuring recommendations are insight-led, commercially grounded and action-oriented.
Innovation and continuous improvement
Act as a senior trading voice within the team, helping raise standards through QA, coaching, knowledge sharing and strong day-to-day judgment.
Use campaigns as opportunities to test, learn and implement innovative ideas.
Maintain and improve ANZ trading and operational processes and best practices.
QA campaigns for other traders with care and accuracy.
Create and maintain wiki pages and knowledge documents.
Share learnings with the wider team to drive adoption of new insights, optimisation approaches and ways of working.
Bring curiosity, initiative and a genuine motivation to keep learning.
What you’ll bring
At least 3 years’ experience trading programmatic campaigns.
Strong commercial experience, with clear evidence of delivering a high standard of client service and helping grow advertiser relationships through performance, insight and partnership.
Confidence presenting to clients, including QBRs, and answering questions on campaign strategy, optimisation and product capabilities.
Strong mathematical and analytical capability.
The ability to work with large datasets in Excel and internal BI tools.
Strong troubleshooting skills and a clear, structured approach to problem solving.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Alignment with MiQ’s values and culture.
A positive, can-do attitude, with the energy and enthusiasm to make an impact.
Ambition to grow your career as MiQ continues to scale.
We’ve highlighted some of the key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single one. Our talent team is focused on finding great people and may see a fit for this role — or another opportunity at MiQ. If you’re excited by the role, we’d still love to hear from you.
What’s in it for you
MiQ is proud to foster a welcoming culture where people feel valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, we’re always working to become an even better place to work.
Our values
Our values are more than statements — they shape how we work, the decisions we make, and the way we show up for one another every day.
We do what we love — Passion.
We figure it out — Determination.
We anticipate the unexpected — Agility.
We always unite — Unite.
We dare to be unconventional — Courage.
Benefits
While benefits vary slightly by region and office, every person joining MiQ can expect:
A hybrid work environment.
New hire orientation, plus role-specific onboarding and training.
Internal and global mobility opportunities.
Competitive healthcare benefits.
Bonus and performance incentives.
Generous annual PTO, paid parental leave, and two additional paid days to recognise holidays, cultural events or inclusion initiatives.
Employee resource groups that connect people across MiQ, drive action and support our communities.