Programmatic Specialist

Description

Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following states: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NJ, NV, NM, NC, OK, OR, SC, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, DC.

JOB TITLE: Programmatic Specialist

DEPARTMENT: Media

REPORTS TO: Programmatic Supervisor or Associate Director, Performance Media

LOCATION: Remote or Hybrid, PST or MST working hours

About The Role

The Programmatic Specialist is the entry point into R&R Partners' performance media team. This is a learning role built around doing. You will be in search and social platforms every day, building campaigns, managing execution, and developing the technical skills that form the foundation of a career in performance media.

You will work under the guidance of Supervisors and Associate Directors who will teach you how the platforms work, how campaigns are structured, and how to read performance data. The expectation is that you learn quickly, ask questions when you are stuck, and take pride in getting the details right. Accuracy matters at this level. Every setup, every budget entry, every tracking implementation. The work is technical and precise, and doing it well is how you earn trust and responsibility.

But from the start, we also want you thinking about what the numbers mean, not just what they are. When you see a campaign performing well or poorly, start asking why. When you notice a pattern across campaigns, say something. The best Specialists are the ones who are curious about the work, not just competent at it.

What You'll Do

Campaign Execution

• Build and launch campaigns under the guidance of your Supervisor or Associate Director. Learn how campaigns are structured, how targeting is configured, and how creative is trafficked across platforms.
• Manage day-to-day campaign execution. Monitor pacing, flag delivery issues, make routine optimizations, and ensure campaigns are running as planned. You will be in the platforms every day.
• Execute campaigns across programmatic paid search, paid social platforms and DSPs. You will build foundational proficiency across multiple platforms, not just one.
• Manage campaign budgets with accuracy. Track spend against plan, flag discrepancies, and maintain clean budget documentation.
• QA all campaign setups, tracking implementations, and creative specifications before launch. Check your work. Then check it again. Errors at the setup stage are preventable and they should not happen.
  
  

Learning and Development

• Learn how performance media works across its full range of channels. Understand what programmatic does, how paid search works differently from paid social, and where each channel fits in a client's performance strategy. Build the foundational knowledge that will allow you to think across channels as you develop.
• Learn to read and interpret campaign performance data. The goal is not just to know the numbers but to start understanding what they mean. When a campaign is underperforming, you should be developing the instinct to ask why and to look for the answer in the data.
• Ask questions. When something does not make sense to you, say so. When you notice something unusual in a campaign, surface it. The people around you expect questions from someone at this level and they would rather answer them than fix a mistake you were afraid to flag.
• Start paying attention to how the platforms are changing. New features, new targeting capabilities, new ad formats. The people closest to the platforms are often the first to notice shifts that matter. Bring what you see to your Supervisor.
  
  

Tools and Ways of Working

• Engage with the department's proprietary planning and audit tools as part of your workflow. Use them, learn from them, and bring observations about what the tools surface to your Supervisor.
• Develop familiarity with AI-assisted optimization and planning tools. The performance media landscape is evolving rapidly. Building comfort with new tools early in your career will serve you well.
• Collaborate with the broader media team. Understand where your performance work fits in the larger media plan and how it connects to the strategy the media strategists and connections strategists are building.
• Contribute to team knowledge-sharing, training programs, and department development. Learning goes both directions.
  
  

What We're Looking For

This is an entry-level role. We do not expect you to know everything. We expect you to be precise, curious, and eager to learn.

• Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, communications, data analytics, or a related field. Or equivalent experience that demonstrates the same foundation.
• Experience in digital media or performance marketing, with hands on keys experience building and managin search and social campaigns. Bonus points if you have in-platform experience working with DSPs.
• Strong attention to detail. The execution side of this role requires accuracy. Campaign setups, budgets, tracking, specifications. Getting these right is the baseline.
• Comfort with data. You do not need to be an analyst, but you should be someone who is not intimidated by spreadsheets, dashboards, and performance reports.
• Curiosity about how digital advertising works, how platforms operate, and how performance media drives business results.
• Strong communication skills. You will be documenting your work, contributing to reports, and communicating with team members. Clarity matters.
• Willingness to learn new platforms, tools, and ways of working. This field changes fast. We want people who are excited by that.
• A genuine interest in performance media as a discipline. The people who do well here find the work genuinely interesting and want to get good at it.
  
  

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
• Generous time-off policy.
• Mobile stipend.
• 401k with company match.
• Community involvement with time and financial matching.
• Annual performance reviews with clear development planning.
• Learning and development investment.
  
  

About R&R Partners

R&R Partners is an independent, full-service agency that has spent five decades taking on work other agencies won't. Our media department is building a practice that leads with cultural intelligence, creative thinking, and technology. We are looking for people who want to help build something new. If you want a department that will challenge how you think about media, this is it.