This is a key role in the programmatic team for the UK's leading parenting media owner, Mumsnet.
We're looking for a junior programmatic operations specialist with strong analytical skills to support and grow our programmatic advertising opportunities.
You'll play a hands-on role in managing PMP/PG deals, troubleshooting technical issues, supporting data analysis, and contributing to key business projects such as audience targeting, ID solutions, consent management, and ad product development.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build your expertise in the evolving programmatic landscape.
Programmatic Management: Assist in managing, monitoring, and optimising PMP/PG deals.
Partnership Coordination: Set up and organise meetings with partners, sharing updates on key product and demand opportunities.
Project Roadmap Maintenance: Contribute to maintaining our programmatic project roadmap and internal documentation.
Data Analysis & Maintenance: Support ad data requests, clean data sets, and assist with ongoing data analysis.
Implementation & Monitoring: Help check implementations, report issues, and troubleshoot ad-related technical problems.
Financial Support: Collaborate with the finance team to address billing discrepancies and provide support on revenue-related matters.
Reporting & Stakeholder Support: Generate ad hoc reports for the team, wider organisation, and senior stakeholders.
Requirements The ideal candidate will bring a blend of operational and analytical skills and have foundational experience in programmatic advertising, either on the buy or sell side.
Here's what we're looking for: Experience: Background in programmatic operations with an understanding of PG, PMPs, and programmatic advertising.
Proficiency with Google Ad Manager.
Familiarity with partner or account management.
Experience with data analysis, particularly using BI tools.
Skills: Highly organised, detail-oriented, and proficient with Excel and Google Suite (especially in pivot tables and charts).
Strong analytical and commercial skills.
Excellent communicator able to work well across teams and with external partners.
Nice-to-Have Skills (Not Required) Hands-on experience with wrapper or other on-site adunit troubleshooting Familiarity with site analytics tools: e.g.
Google analytics or Amplitude Exposure to data visualisation platforms like Data Studio, Looker, or Adomik.
Understanding of publisher yield tactics and metrics (e.g., SPO, dynamic pricing, rCPM).
Who we are Mumsnet is the UK's biggest website for parents, and our purpose is to make their lives easier.
We've got some of the busiest forums in Europe, with users offering each other advice and support 24/7, plus editorial content, reviews, campaigns and tools.
We aim to be the UK's go-to brand for parents, and - for our staff - a great place to work.
Why work for us?
We focus on steady, sustainable growth while putting purpose before profit.
We expect great performance, agility and collaboration in every role; cross-team working with talented, clever people is the best part of life at Mumsnet.
We embraced flexible and home working a long time before COVID, and we care much more about outputs than hours on the clock.
We know that everyone makes mistakes, and we value people who discuss them openly and share how they've learned from them.
We don't only want to hire the best people: we want to retain them.
If you need some flexibility, let us know and we'll do our best.
We're committed to diversity and equality and we think we're second to none in the all-round support we offer to parents at work (as you'd expect).
Working for Mumsnet means never having to pretend you don't have a family (or other commitments) and we promise never to keep you away from a school appointment, (unless you really don't want to go).
We offer flexible training and development via Linkedin Learning.
We are proud to be a London Living Wage employer and we have never used unpaid interns.
We have a healthy line-up of sandwich lunches, knowledge sessions, book clubs, yoga sessions and sports teams, as well as an unhealthy line-up of staff parties at Kentish Town's excellent pubs and restaurants, and breakfast deliveries for the mornings after. Hybrid working We've continued to embrace flexibility and remote working.. You'll only be required to be in the office two days a week (although you'll be able to come in more often if you wish).
Benefits We're pleased to offer the following benefits, subject to eligibility: Buy More Holiday Scheme Cycle2Work Scheme After 12 months employment, you will be eligible to join our EMI share options scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mumsnet Workplace Pension Scheme Workplace Nursery Scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme Bespoke learning subscriptions with weekly "Drop Everything And Learn" time Leisure and Retail perks discounts through the Perkbox platform BUPA Private Medical cover Wellness benefits including daily workouts and meditations via Perkbox Monthly team social events Where we are We're based in sunny Kentish Town, where you're never more than 500 metres away from a sourdough pizza and an elaborately refurbished pub.
Want to know more Check out Mumsnet: Our Culture - our guide to what it's like to work at Mumsnet.
Read about our mission, our vision, our values and the behaviours we expect of the people who work at Mumsnet.