Senior Director, Programmatic B2B

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Director, Programmatic to oversee day-to-day operations and manage the programmatic buying division of multiple B2B clients! Reporting into the SVP, B2B, you’ll help define the vision, structure, and best practices for a growing B2B programmatic group as new clients and business needs expand.

You’ll install best-in-class operational practices tailored to B2B buying cycles, enterprise-level audience segmentation, and multi-stakeholder decision journeys. You’ll also contribute to business development efforts, helping win new B2B clients through thought leadership and pitch participation. The Director is expected to be pivotal in the onboarding of new advertisers and recovering good standing with difficult accounts. The role includes internal and external Programmatic education on Capabilities and New Ad Tech Tools.

You’ll be responsible for owning the business relationship with your client(s), agency, and team, in addition to ensuring the successful delivery of programmatic campaigns. In the role, you will be fostering strong relationships with respective digital agency counterparts, clients and external partners. In addition, you will be expected to be the team’s source of expertise and point of escalation for all aspects of a campaign’s execution including implementation, optimization and inventory and audience strategy.

You Will Be:

• Leading B2B programmatic strategy development, aligning audience, messaging, and media delivery to client business objectives such as lead quality, account penetration, and sales velocity.
• Partnering with analytics and strategy teams to connect programmatic impact to CRM and pipeline metrics (MQLs, SQLs, pipeline velocity, ROI).
• Overseeing campaign management and optimization across display, video, native, and ABM-driven programmatic executions.
• Managing a team (typically 2 or more) with responsibility for workload prioritization, professional development, and operational excellence.
• Establishing scalable best practices for B2B audience segmentation, firmographic and technographic targeting, and multi-touch attribution.
• Owning relationships with key B2B data and tech partners (Bombora, 6sense, LiveRamp, LinkedIn, Demandbase, etc.), evaluating and integrating new solutions.
• Contributing to new business efforts - crafting compelling programmatic POVs, pricing models, and case studies that illustrate B2B growth outcomes.
• Guiding cross-channel collaboration with paid social, search, and content teams to create cohesive, full-funnel demand generation programs.
• Providing thought leadership on emerging programmatic trends, privacy developments, and audience strategies relevant to B2B advertisers.
• Ensuring financial discipline through accurate budgeting, pacing, forecasting, and quarterly business reviews for client accounts.
• Serving as an escalation point for performance, strategy, or client relationship issues - balancing strategic counsel with practical, data-driven solutions.
• Representing the agency externally at B2B-focused industry events, conferences, and with tech partners.

You Must Have:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing programmatic campaigns, ideally with a focus on B2B or enterprise clients in an agency, DSP, or platform environment.
• Deep understanding of B2B buying journeys, including account-based marketing, lead scoring, and funnel-stage optimization.
• Advanced expertise with DSPs (TTD, DV360, StackAdapt, etc.), data management platforms, and CRM integrations for audience activation.
• Proven experience tying programmatic metrics to business outcomes (MQL → SQL → Opportunity → Revenue).
• Analytical fluency in using GA4, Salesforce, HubSpot, and other attribution or marketing automation platforms.
• Executive-ready communication skills, capable of distilling technical programmatic details into actionable business insights.
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines—creative, media, strategy, and analytics—to deliver integrated B2B demand programs.
• Innate curiosity and a forward-looking perspective on evolving B2B ad tech, data privacy, and audience intelligence trends.