Associate Digital Marketing Strategist - Programmatic

ACSC Auto Club Of Southern Calif; United States; On-site; USD 86,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with company match and pension

Tuition assistance

Floating holidays and volunteer PTO

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Auto Club Enterprises seeks an Associate Digital Marketing Strategist to support programmatic planning, execution, optimization, and management across channels such as CM360, DV360, CTV, OLV, YouTube, Display, and Audio. The role focuses on trafficking, QA, and performance measurement.

The team collaborates with media planning, analytics, and creative to optimize budgets, channel mixes, and lifetime value. Strong communication and hands-on CM360 experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Marketing preferred.
• 2–3 years of ad operations experience with hands-on CM360 trafficking.
• Direct experience with CTV, Online Video, Display and Streaming Audio.
• DV360 campaign optimization experience.
• Strong understanding of digital ad ecosystem including online & offline tracking.
• Experience supporting execution and monitoring programmatic budgets.
• Effective communicator with ability to convey complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop programmatic plans, execution, optimizations and measurement strategies across programmatic campaigns.
• Manage CM360 ad trafficking across channels; ensure creatives launch on time and tags are exported as needed.
• QA CM360 placements, tracking, and trafficking setups before launch.
• Meet or exceed monthly and annual sales goals.
• Support Multi-Channel Campaign Management in DV360 across channels; manage day-to-day pacing and optimization.
• Use insights to improve lifetime value and performance.
• Collaborate with media planning to optimize budgets and channel mixes.
• Measure and track KPIs and present findings to senior leadership.
• Coordinate with ad ops/technical teams for robust tracking across channels.

Skills

Ad operations

DV360 optimization

Competitive analysis

Effective communicator

Presentation skills

Spreadsheet skills

Education

Bachelor's in Marketing

Tools

MS Office

Google Docs

SharePoint

Job description

Associate Digital Marketing Strategist - Programmatic

The Associate Digital Marketing Strategist will help support programmatic strategy, planning, execution, optimization, and overall management of digital marketing initiatives across programmatic channels for Auto Club Enterprise line of business. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of CM360 ad operations and the digital programmatic landscape, along with hands‑on experience managing a breadth of programmatic campaigns across channels like CTV, OLV, YouTube, Display, audio, and others.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of programmatic plans, execution, optimizations and measurement strategies across programmatic campaigns to achieve marketing objectives.
• Manage CM360 ad trafficking across all programmatic channels, including but not limited to CTV, OLV, YouTube, display, and audio. Ensure creatives launch on time, placement setups meet publisher ad specifications, and complete 1x1 tagging and direct IO creative tag exports as needed
• QA CM360 placements, creative tags, tracking, and trafficking setups to ensure accuracy, proper ad functionality, and alignment with campaign requirements before launch
• Meet or exceed monthly and annual sales goals.
• Support Multi-Channel Campaign Management: support campaign activation and execution in DV360 across CTV, OLV, Display, YouTube, and Audio. Owns day-to-day campaign management, including pacing, performance, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Utilize insights tools & strategies to help improve lifetime value for the organization.
• Manage & execute test & iteration roadmaps for paid media campaigns and landing page optimization.
• Work closely with media planning team to establish optimal budgets and marketing channel mixes that will yield the best results.
• Measure, monitor & track all marketing KPIs. Ensure channel benchmarks are being met or exceeded. Use insights to identify areas for growth or improvement and update presentation decks going to senior leadership.
• Work with ad ops & technical teams to ensure proper tracking & measurement across all marketing channels. Includes implementation of floodlights, vendor pixels, campaign click trackers, 1x1s, and offline phone numbers.
• Collaborate with internal teams on key projects including media planning, creative rotations, product, sales, big data, E-business, analytics, content, and market research.

The starting pay range for this position is: $86,100.00 - $115,000.00 Additionally, for full time positions, you will be eligible to participate in our incentive program based upon the achievement of organization, team and personal performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Marketing Preferred
• 2–3 years of experience in ad operations, with hands‑on experience trafficking and managing campaigns in CM360
• Direct experience with supporting any combination of the following is preferred: CTV, Online Video, Display and Streaming Audio
• Experience with DV360 campaign optimization preferred
• Strong understanding of digital ad ecosystem including online & offline tracking and measurement
• Experience supporting the execution and monitoring of programmatic budgets for various channels.
• Effective communicator - Ability to convey complex concepts in a clear & understandable way.
• Can perform competitive analysis and support the development of strategic plans.
• Proficient with MS Office, Google docs, and SharePoint. Able to create clear & effective presentations and proficient with spreadsheets (formulas, macros, and other automation capabilities are a plus)

Remarkable benefits

• Health coverage for medical, dental, vision
• 401(K) saving plans with company match AND Pension
• Tuition assistance
• Floating holidays and PTO for community volunteer programs
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs
• Employee discounts (membership, insurance, travel, entertainment, services and more!)

Auto Club Enterprises is the largest club within the national AAA federation. We have nearly 17,000 employees in 24 states helping more than 18 million members. The strength of our organization is our employees. Bringing together and supporting different cultures, backgrounds, personalities, and strengths creates a team capable of delivering legendary, lifetime service to our members. When we embrace our diversity – we win. All of Us! With our national brand recognition, long‑standing reputation since 1900, and constantly growing membership, we are seeking career‑minded, service‑driven professionals to join our team.

“Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.”

AAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our organization participates in E-Verify The Automobile Club of Southern California will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), the Unincorporated Los Angeles County (ULAC) regulation, and the California Fair Chance Act (CFCA).

For more than a century, AAA has been synonymous with trust, dependability, quality, and innovation. It's our mission to provide our growing membership with the legendary service we are famous for, and we welcome committed professionals ready to challenge themselves in a dynamic industry.

AAA would not exist without the millions of members who give us their loyalty, or our employees whose mission it is to give those members world‑class service.

What else do we offer? Stability. Growth. Commitment to an exciting future for both you and our members.