
Manager - Demand Partnerships
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own and grow relationships with performance-focused DSPs across global markets.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for demand partners, managing both day-to-day operations and long-term strategic initiatives.
- Analyze DSP performance metrics (e.g., win rates, CPM, CTR, eCPIs) and collaborate with internal teams (Product, Engineering, Operations) to improve traffic quality, auction mechanics, and outcomes.
- Partner with data science and yield teams to uncover opportunities for bid density, price optimisation, and DSP-specific tuning.
- Work closely with the product, marketing, and operations teams to constantly optimise efforts related to Account growth and company-wide goals.
- Collaborate with the Supply teams to identify high-performing inventory and improve exchange integrations to maximize DSP value.
- Develop and execute quarterly joint business plans with key partners, including opportunity mapping, product adoption, and growth initiatives.
- Stay on top of mobile programmatic trends-including in-app RTB, SDK-based inventory, and performance UA/RT evolution-to guide internal strategy and positioning.
- 5+ years of experience in programmatic advertising, preferably in a performance DSP or UA/RT-driven organisation.
- Proven success in managing and scaling strategic partnerships within the ad tech or performance marketing ecosystem.
- Deep understanding of performance UA metrics and optimisation levers used by DSPs (e.g., ROAS, eCPI, retention).
- Subject matter expert in performance UA and retargeting. Speak the language of CPA, ROAS, LTV, SKAN, and incrementality.
- Analytical and data-driven, comfortable with dashboards, cohort analysis, and performance metrics.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with SDK-based inventory and knowledge of MMPs (Adjust, Appsflyer, Kochava) is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, globally distributed team environment.