Partner Activation Lead, Ad Tech & Data Syndication

Samba; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Samba is seeking an Associate Partner Activation Manager to own partner onboarding, taxonomy strategy, and pricing operations for Gravity, Samba's data syndication platform. You will coordinate cross-functional work between account teams, Engineering, Product, and Partnerships to onboard, model, and distribute datasets for syndication.

The role blends hands-on platform work with partner-facing strategy, taxonomy guidance, and cross-region data coordination, requiring hands-on problem-solving and

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for internal and client-facing contexts.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and coordinate across account, product, and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with ad-tech, programmatic operations, or data partnerships is a plus.
• Strong Excel proficiency (SUMIFS, INDEX/MATCH, pivot tables, VLOOKUP).
• BA/BS in Marketing, Business, Data, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the go-to expert on platform capabilities and limitations for internal teams and external partners/advertisers.
• Troubleshoot segment issues ahead of escalation and understand platform SLAs for modeling and distribution.
• Lead onboarding, auditing, and taxonomy strategy for data partners and agencies.
• Create and present business reviews for data partners.
• Own custom partner reporting and maintain accuracy of taxonomy pricing and destinations.
• File and route platform tickets between account teams and Engineering/Product.
• Support identity match testing and onboarding architecture for new data imports (S3/SFTP).

Skills

Communication

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional coordination

Eagerness to learn

Education

BA/BS in Marketing, Business, Data, or related field

Tools

SQL

Excel

Salesforce

Jira

Asana

Job description

Samba is seeking an Associate Partner Activation Manager to own partner onboarding, taxonomy strategy, and pricing operations for Gravity, Samba's data syndication platform. You will coordinate cross-functional work between account teams, Engineering, Product, and Partnerships to onboard, model, and distribute datasets for syndication.

The role blends hands-on platform work with partner-facing strategy, taxonomy guidance, and cross-region data coordination, requiring hands-on problem-solving and