Creative Technology Senior Associate (Dynamic Creative Developer)

We are PMG PMG, a global independent platform company engineered for impact, integrates business strategy, media, creative, and data within a single operating model powered by our proprietary operating system, Alli. With more than 1,000 employees, PMG partners with brands including Apple, Nike, Dropbox, Experian, Sephora, and Whole Foods. Our work has earned top industry honors, including Cannes Lions and Adweek’s Media Plan of the Year, and PMG has won 40+ workplace culture awards, including being the only company to rank among Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for 11 consecutive years. Professional proficiency in written and spoken English is required, including for resume submission and interviews. Our Creative team is looking for Creative Technology Senior Associate to join a team of multidisciplinary developers, executing best-in-class omni-channel projects leveraging industry leading Advertising Technologies, Ad Servers and Ad builder/DCO [dynamic content optimization] tools. Working directly with a wide range of tech partners, inter-company and external integrated teams, the Creative Technology Senior Associate will support all dynamic creative and asset automation project buildouts, delivery and integration into ad servers. You should be comfortable working directly with multi-disciplinary team leads across the PMG both in your primary office location and supported global markets.

What You'll Be Doing

Support ad technology, tech integration tests, dynamic [DCO], and omni-channel campaign production efforts across multiple brand teams, geographical locations and products (including new business and new agency tech initiatives) Contribute to large scale programmatic, social and video campaigns across multiple formats and channels employing underlying code bases such as HTML/JS/CSS, and industry leading ad technology. Support in the auditing and defining criteria for all functional and non-functional deliverable requirements including dynamic ad serving, data pass work streams, API/product feed integrations, asset tracking and tagging, performance outputs, creative authoring tools, scalability and quality assurance Facilitate and cultivate relationships with our preferred platform partners, to establish development best practices and requirements, ensure continued innovation through product advancements/ways of working, and continuity of service through reporting and troubleshooting. Encourage innovation, adoption of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, out-of-the-box thinking, cross-team collaboration, self-organization, and diversity Support PMG on devising strategic roadmaps and onboarding materials for the continued advancements in product development and campaign delivery, QA automation tools and process adoption through our international developer hubs, with POVs on Build, Buy, Borrow. Become a super-user on new tools developed by PMG Product Teams. What You'll Bring 3+ years of experience, including at least 2 years working at a Creative, AdTech and or Digital Agency Knowledge of digital creative best practices and deliverables Ability to write scalable and modular code to employ multi-variant testing and dynamic creative industry standards. Digital Creative Development (front-end) or relevant ad technology background with 6+ years experience Demonstrated ability to balance campaign objectives and time-to-market requirements without compromising product quality Strong understanding of IAB Standards and Digital Ad Formats & specifications Training and Certifications on PMG required DCO ad serving platforms - primary Google GMP and similar knowledge of Clinch, Celtra, Google GMP (DCM, GWD, DCS), Innovid, Smartly, Jivox, Bannerflow, Google Web Designer Working knowledge of & tools like Airtable, JIRA, Smartsheets, Asana, Github Self-starter with a high degree of self-motivation and initiative with the ability to build processes from the ground up and collaborate in a multi-stakeholder environment Strong written and verbal communication skills Detailed oriented with the ability support development team through troubleshooting and Quality assurance Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook, Teams) Familiarity working with Creative Assets and Design apps such as the Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD, Adobe After Effects) Preferred Skills 2+ years working with internal and third-party APIs [REST, SOAP, JSON] like Open Weather Map or CRM data 1+ years Python experience or comparable programming language Understanding of audience analytics capabilities and best practices (measurement, matching, onboarding, workflow, limitations, and workarounds, etc.) in the current environment Experience working with excel formulas for data matching, aggregation and math Experience with database systems, Website CMS tools queries and normalization Basic understanding and ability to work in After Effects as needed. Working knowledge of data factors driving project success (e.g. PII vs. anonymized data, cookies vs. people, panels vs. census, passive vs. active/survey data, fused vs. matched data, etc.)