Senior Programmatic & Ad Tech Specialist

Time Out Group Plc; Barcelona; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Time Out Group is seeking a Senior Programmatic & Ad Tech Specialist to optimize its global ad tech stack across GAM and Prebid, drive SSP yield, and monetize first-party data. The role involves global privacy governance, ads.txt/sellers.json management, and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.

Hybrid in Barcelona or London with remote work. The successful candidate will lead audience monetization strategies, manage international relationships, and troubleshoot

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years in Publisher AdOps, Programmatic operations, or Ad Tech in a regional or global capacity.
• Audience Tech Expertise: Demonstrated mastery of audience monetization tools and data platforms (Permutive, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk (UID2), or similar addressability solutions).
• Tech Stack Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience with Google Ad Manager (GAM) and Magnite.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Proficient with web calls (Chrome DevTools, Prebid Console, proxies) and standard JS/HTML context for ad calls.
• Location & Presence: Based in Spain ( Barcelona area) with ability to work 1 day per week in the central Barcelona office.
• Languages: Fluent English (written & spoken). Spanish is not required.

Responsibilities

• Subject matter expert in audience monetization platforms, addressability, and identity solutions.
• Hands-on operation and strategy using tools such as Permutive, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, and alternative ID frameworks to build, target, and monetize audience segments globally.
• Activate and optimize high-value first-party data strategies for direct sales and programmatic deals across all regions.
• Direct global relationship owner for all SSPs, ad networks, and demand partners.
• Monitor international eCPMs, fill rates, floor pricing, and execute continuous A/B testing for unified pricing rules and PMPs.
• Prebid: Worldwide maintenance, adding/removing bidder adapters, optimizing timeouts, and managing wrapper deployments.
• Compliance: Technical ownership of global privacy frameworks (TCF, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA), CMP management, ads.txt, and sellers.json.
• ads.txt & sellers.json Management: Responsible for the continuous auditing, updating, and validation of global ads.txta and sellers.json files to ensure zero revenue leakage and prevent unauthorized inventory reselling.
• Consent Management Platform (CMP): Manage, deploy, and update Consent Management Platforms across all international domains to ensure strict adherence to global privacy frameworks (IAB TCF v2.2, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and regional privacy regulations).
• Front-line technical support for global programmatic delivery issues, impression discrepancies, and latency spikes.
• Use browser dev tools, Prebid Console, and GAM logs to debug tag, wrapper, and line-item errors.
• Partner with global Product and Engineering teams on ad placements, lazy loading rules, Core Web Vitals, and viewability strategies.

Skills

Permutive

LiveRamp

The Trade Desk

UID2

GAM

Magnite

Prebid

Chrome DevTools

JS/HTML

Proxies

English

Audience monetization

Tools

GAM

Magnite

Prebid

Chrome DevTools

JS/HTML

Proxies

UID2

Job description

Senior Programmatic & Ad Tech Specialist

Location: Barcelona or London (hybrid working)

Barcelona: 1 day per week in our central Barcelona office, with the remainder working remotely.

London: 3 days per week in our London office, with the remainder working remotely.

This global role directly drives worldwide revenue by optimizing Time Out’s global ad tech stack in GAM and Prebid, maximizing SSP yield, driving audience monetization, maintaining global compliance, and protecting site health across all international markets.

Responsibilities

Audience Monetization & First-Party Data

• Subject matter expert in audience monetization platforms, addressability, and identity solutions.
• Hands-on operation and strategy using tools such as Permutive, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, and alternative ID frameworks to build, target, and monetize audience segments globally.
• Activate and optimize high-value first-party data strategies for direct sales and programmatic deals across all regions.

Supply-Side Partnerships & Yield Optimization

• Direct global relationship owner for all SSPs, ad networks, and demand partners.
• Monitor international eCPMs, fill rates, floor pricing, and execute continuous A/B testing for unified pricing rules and PMPs.

Technical Stack & Global Compliance Management

• Prebid: Worldwide maintenance, adding/removing bidder adapters, optimizing timeouts, and managing wrapper deployments.
• Compliance: Technical ownership of global privacy frameworks (TCF, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA), CMP management, ads.txt, and sellers.json.

ads.txt & CMP Governance

• ads.txt & sellers.json Management: Responsible for the continuous auditing, updating, and validation of global ads.txta and sellers.json files to ensure zero revenue leakage and prevent unauthorized inventory reselling.
• Consent Management Platform (CMP): Manage, deploy, and update Consent Management Platforms across all international domains to ensure strict adherence to global privacy frameworks (IAB TCF v2.2, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and regional privacy regulations).

GAM & Prebid Troubleshooting

• Front-line technical support for global programmatic delivery issues, impression discrepancies, and latency spikes.
• Use browser dev tools, Prebid Console, and GAM logs to debug tag, wrapper, and line-item errors.

Product & Inventory Architecture

• Partner with global Product and Engineering teams on ad placements, lazy loading rules, Core Web Vitals, and viewability strategies.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years in Publisher AdOps, Programmatic operations, or Ad Tech in a regional or global capacity.
• Audience Tech Expertise: Demonstrated mastery of audience monetization tools and data platforms (Permutive, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk (UID2), or similar addressability solutions).
• Tech Stack Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience with Google Ad Manager (GAM) and Magnite.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Proficient with web calls (Chrome DevTools, Prebid Console, proxies) and standard JS/HTML context for ad calls.
• Location & Presence: Based in Spain ( Barcelona area) with ability to work 1 day per week in the central Barcelona office.
• Languages: Fluent English (written & spoken). Spanish is not required.

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a leading global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city.

It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike. Today, it is the only global brand – with a local voice – dedicated to city life.

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market – which are highly synergistic – the Company helps its large audience go out in the world's greatest cities with its curated content and experiences, and connects global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

Time Out Media’s multiple digital and physical channels span websites, mobile, social media, videos, newsletters and Live Events. Across these channels, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – created and curated by a global team of local experts – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in over 350 cities and over 50 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience by offering bespoke 360-degree multichannel advertising solutions to international, national and local brands and businesses. Since its launch in 1968, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city together under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in Lisbon, quickly becoming one of the city's most popular destinations. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion and there are currently 13 open Markets: in addition to Lisbon, there are sites in New York (in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood and in Manhattan's Union Square), Boston, Montreal, Dubai, Cape Town, Porto, Barcelona, Bahrain, Osaka, Budapest and Vancouver. More Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline as the global expansion continues.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.