Programmatic Trading Specialist, APAC
PubMatic Open · verified Oct 8, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Programmatic role at PubMatic. Gurugram.
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What you'll do
- Guide client budgets from media planning through buying, optimization, reporting, and analysis
- Check campaign setup and results against client goals, then adjust tactics to improve performance
- Monitor programmatic executions and address technical problems affecting demand partners
- Join client discussions as a programmatic specialist and answer requests promptly
- Document media plans and campaigns, and find ways to streamline internal and external processes
What you bring
- Hands-on experience trading programmatic media is essential
- You bring five to seven years in digital advertising, ideally with programmatic work at an agency, trading desk, or technology company
- You understand ad serving and buying concepts such as CPM, CPA, RTB, and ROI, plus video and mobile
- You can use Excel features including pivot tables, pivot charts, and VLOOKUP
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level specialist who can manage campaign budgets and communicate with clients and partner teams. It follows a hybrid schedule with three office days and two remote days each week in Gurugram, India.
From the employer
About the Role
PubMatic is looking for a Programmatic Trading Specialist to join our growing team in Gurugram,India and support the APAC business in growing revenue from our buyside focused platform. This role will require the successful candidate to work closely with the APAC Advertiser Solutions team to offer support and develop and scale programmatic demand from agencies and partners.
The successful candidate will have a unique ability to combine their programmatic trading knowledge, technical and creative thinking with strong communication skills.
In this role you will serve in a proactive manner in monitoring, tracking, and delivering programmatic executions, including reporting, assessing performance and optimizing accordingly. This role will also lead troubleshooting for various technical issues that may arise with demand partners while championing PubMatic’s buyside platform capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Own sizeable client budgets throughout the entire media buying lifecycle, from media planning, execution, optimization, reporting, analysis and insights
- Drive repeatable, scalable client successes by leveraging your strong background and track record of achievements in programmatic media trading
- Oversee quality of campaign set-up and ongoing performance against client objectives, ensuring client satisfaction is fully met
- Treat client campaigns as your own - always looking for ways to optimize budgets and improve upon current tactics
- Respond to client requests in a timely manner
- Participate in client meetings as a subject matter expert
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of programmatic media plans and campaigns
- Identify new opportunities or processes to work more efficiently both internally and externally
We'd Love for You to Have
- Hands-on programmatic trading experience is a must
- Minimum 5-7 years in digital advertising, preferably in a programmatic role at an agency, trading desk or technology company
- Applied knowledge of key industry partners for fraud, viewability, brand safety, data
- Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of & experience in online ad serving concepts (CPM/CPA/RTB/ROI), video, mobile, RTB, programmatic buying
- Analytical skills combined with great problem-solving abilities
- Excellent critical thinking and communication skills
- Proactive approach
- Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, pivot charts, vlookup application knowledge
- Process-oriented with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize various requests and responsibilities..
Additional Information:
Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, and broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches, and much more!
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies, and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
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