Middle RTB Manager

About the role

This position is with an international advertising network that specializes in connecting advertisers, media buyers, and webmasters across diverse sectors like dating, gambling, betting, and e-commerce. The company processes over 500 million daily impressions from its proprietary traffic sources. The role involves managing and optimizing the network's real-time bidding (RTB) traffic, working with an in-house RTB platform, and ensuring traffic quality and volume.

The core responsibilities include analyzing traffic source effectiveness, optimizing ad purchases, and improving overall traffic quality. A significant part of the role involves partner management, focusing on communication, quality control, and fostering relationships to explore new opportunities. While finding new partners is not a primary duty, relationship development is key to expanding the RTB function.

Success in this role means independently managing the RTB direction, which is currently a solo function within the company. This includes understanding the technical aspects of the in-house RTB solution, collaborating with the CTO, and maintaining financial reporting and performance indicators. The role requires a candidate who can take full responsibility for results and drive the RTB strategy.

Skills that matter here

• RTB: The role requires hands-on experience in real-time bidding, specifically in optimizing traffic and understanding the RTB ecosystem.
• traffic optimization: A core responsibility is to analyze and improve the effectiveness of traffic sources and ad purchases.
• partner management: The manager will communicate with RTB partners, ensure quality control, and develop relationships.
• financial reporting: The role involves maintaining reports and controlling financial indicators related to the RTB direction.
• in-house RTB solution: The manager will work directly with the company's proprietary RTB platform, requiring technical understanding without coding.

Who this role suits

• You have a minimum of two years' experience in RTB, with a focus on hands-on traffic optimization.
• You are comfortable taking full ownership of a function, as this role operates as the sole specialist for the RTB direction.
• You possess strong communication skills for managing relationships with external RTB partners.
• You are analytical and detail-oriented, capable of optimizing traffic sources and managing financial indicators.

From the employer

• Optimize RTB traffic: analyze source effectiveness, optimize purchases, improve traffic quality and volumes, work with current connections.
• Work with RTB partners: communication, quality control, relationship development, launching new opportunities (finding new partners is not a key task, ~5% of time).
• Platform: the company uses an in-house RTB solution, not white label. Understand the system and work with the CTO. Coding is not required, but understanding the technical side of the RTB ecosystem is important.
• Financial part: maintain reporting and control indicators in the direction.

• 2+ years of experience in RTB, hands-on work with traffic.
• Experience in optimizing sources and working with partners.
• Understanding of RTB processes and ecosystem.
• Independence and responsibility for results — this is not a position for simple tasks, but a full responsibility area for one specialist (currently, the RTB direction is solo).

• Full-time, remote.
• Fixed salary in EUR + performance bonus.
• Freelance/individual entrepreneur/self-employment contract, tax compensation.
• Direct interaction with the head of the direction and CTO.
• 1-2 sessions with a psychologist per year, English club.