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Senior Programmatic Trading Director

MiQ

London

Hybrid

USD 130,000 - 175,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

MiQ is seeking a Senior Programmatic Trading Director to drive strategic innovation across its UK Trading practice. This pivotal role involves overseeing a 25+ member team to enhance programmatic trading success while ensuring business impact and client performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in programmatic trading along with strong leadership and strategic skills.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment
Competitive healthcare benefits
Bonus and performance incentives
Generous annual PTO
Paid parental leave
Employee resource groups

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of senior leadership experience in programmatic trading.
  • Proven track record in building and leading high-impact trading teams.
  • Expertise in multiple DSPs and a strategic mindset for revenue growth.

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategy and lead work streams for Trading to achieve quarterly and annual financial targets.
  • Manage the profit forecasting process across the UK business.
  • Recruit, train, and retain a leading class of UK traders fit to maximize the value of MiQ’s technology.

Skills

Leadership
Strategic Mindset
Communication
Problem-solving

Job description

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We’re MiQ, a tech-enabled media partner for marketers and agencies. We’re experts in data, analytics and programmatic trading, and we’re always ready to react and solve challenges quickly for our clients. We built the world’s leading AI Advertising Technology platform which helps solve complex challenges across a fragmented ecosystem of data & buying platforms. Our business keeps growing and we keep getting better because we keep hiring smart new people. People who can challenge conventions and shake things up. People who want to connect with people all over the world to make great things happen. People who are as excited by the opportunities of programmatic as us.

Join MiQ as a key operational leader, driving strategic innovation across our UK Trading practice. As the UK Trading Director, you'll oversee a 25+ member team, shaping MiQ’s programmatic trading success while maximizing business impact and client performance. This role sits at the core of MiQ’s UK leadership and culture, blending financial acumen with market expertise to elevate our reputation as industry leaders.

Key Responsibilities

Drive Business Performance

  • Set the strategy and lead work streams for Trading to achieve quarterly and annual financial targets - delivering booked revenue and profit with operational rigor
  • Balance immediate financial objectives with long-term market opportunities to maximize key channel growth and client retention
  • Manage the profit forecasting process across the UK business to feed into the UK weekly performance updates, working through your ATDs and TMs to deliver this
  • Act as the trading escalation point for the UK business - troubleshoot and provide support on high value client, commercial partnership or technical challenges

Develop High Performing Teams

  • Recruit, train and retain a leading class of UK traders fit to maximize the value of MiQ’s technology and bring our UK business into more channels, formats and platforms
  • Manage the Strategic Trading team, setting direction and managing pace and fulfilment of project scope ranging from campaign automation, best practices, templates and innovation labs
  • Manage the Programmatic Partnerships team, set and continually refine MiQ’s strategy for DSP, SSP and Publisher prioritization, laddering to business priorities alongside client performance and supply quality
  • Define and continually refine core trading competencies, building a culture of innovation and commercial excellence
  • Exemplify and foster commercial acumen, bridging the gap between trading, account management, and sales teams

External & Commercial Impact

  • Help localize and deliver against MiQ’s product strategy in the UK, ensuring optimal execution working closely with global product and UK media solutions teams
  • Contribute to and join key strategic client pitches and partner days, bringing our Trading department to life in front of our key clients
  • Represent MiQ UK in market on panels, stages and in PR opportunities - be the voice of our operations in Market

What You Bring

  • 7+ years of senior leadership experience in programmatic trading
  • Proven track record in building and leading high-impact trading teams
  • Expertise in multiple DSPs and a strategic mindset for revenue growth
  • Exceptional communication and problem-solving skills

What We Value In Our People

Passion – We love and live what we do

Determination - We always find a way to figure it out

Unity – We back each other and challenge each other

Agility – We anticipate the unexpected, embrace and adapt to change

Courage – We dare to think unconventionally

BENEFITS:

Every region and office has specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect:

  • A hybrid work environment
  • New hire orientation with job specific onboarding and training
  • Internal and global mobility opportunities
  • Competitive healthcare benefits
  • Bonus and performance incentives
  • Generous annual PTO, paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives
  • Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all MiQ regions, drive action, and support our communities

At MiQ, we don’t just accept the differences of our people, it is what builds us as a community. MiQ is very proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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    Director
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