Programmatic Ad Operations Specialist

Antipodes is a global programmatic advertising company behind AudienceConnect, an AI-powered structured audience marketplace connecting brands and agencies with premium publisher inventory across oRTB, PMP, and Ad Exchange.

We’re hiring an Ad Operations Specialist to own the technical health of our integrations — from exchange connections to day-to-day optimization, working daily with SSPs and DSPs.

What you’ll do:

• Lead end-to-end technical onboarding for SSP, DSP, and publisher partners

• Configure OpenRTB, Prebid, VAST tags, and ad exchange connections

• Support mobile SDK integration for in-app supply partners

• Manage ads.txt / app-ads.txt and validate schain before launch

• Coordinate integration testing and QA with partners

• Verify bid requests, counting methodologies, tracking, and visibility

• Troubleshoot before launch to ensure successful deployment

• Monitor performance, discrepancies, and yield across live integrations

• Manage traffic quality and compliance, including IVT and brand safety

• Keep integrations aligned with consent and privacy requirements (GDPR/CCPA)

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years in programmatic advertising across mobile in-app, CTV, Web, and Native

• Proven work with SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, mediation platforms, or publishers

• Solid understanding of OpenRTB, bid request/response flows, and auction mechanics

• Hands-on Prebid / header bidding experience — config, wrapper setup, troubleshooting

• Familiarity with mobile mediation SDKs and in-app monetization stacks

• Familiar with ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json, schain, and other IAB standards

• Comfortable analyzing bid requests, auction performance, discrepancies, and revenue data

• Experience optimizing fill rate, yield, latency, and monetization

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, detail-oriented and self-driven

• Fluent written and spoken English

What we offer:

• Fully remote role

• Paid vacation days

• Bonus structure tied to company performance

• Join a fast-growing company with direct exposure to leading ad tech platforms and global SSP/DSP integrations