Director of Programmatic Retail Media
Envision Horizons · Remote
Envision Horizons is a global marketplace growth agency specializing in Amazon, Walmart, and other major retail media networks. Our team helps brands build awareness, capture market share, and drive profitability through data-driven strategy and execution.
We believe high-performing teams are built on trust, curiosity, and the power of collective expertise. As a leading force in global eCommerce acceleration, our diverse, tech-driven professionals don’t just react to the industry; they shape it. By fusing ambitious thinking with compassion, we deliver exceptional client outcomes while making space for every individual to create, grow, and genuinely thrive. Each team member influences our evolution, enjoying flexibility and support unmatched by larger organizations. Here, your impact is real, your ideas matter, and your career trajectory is limitless.
Role Overview
The Director of Programmatic Retail Media is the internal authority on how Envision Horizons runs retail media DSP and programmatic campaigns for endemic advertisers. This is a subject-matter-expert and enablement role, not an account role. You define our retail media programmatic methodology, build the standards the DSP team works to, train the function, and keep EH ahead of platform change across both onsite and offsite display, video and CTV, and audience strategy built on retailer first-party data. You do not manage a book of clients or own account P&L. Your success is measured by the strength and repeatability of our retail media programmatic capability, adoption of the medium across our client base of endemic advertisers, adoption of MyHorizons (our proprietary reporting platform), and growth in managed ad spend.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Best Practice & Capability
Define EH’s best-practice methodology for retail media programmatic: audience strategy, line-item structure, supply strategy, bidding and pacing, creative rotation, frequency management, and incrementality measurement across Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk, and retailer-specific programmatic offerings, spanning both onsite and offsite display, video and Streaming TV.
Build the audience and measurement frameworks that use retailer first-party data, and codify methodology into playbooks, SOPs, QA standards, and MyHorizons so retail media programmatic scales across accounts without proportional headcount.
Set benchmarks and diagnostics for retail media programmatic health (new-to-brand, reach and frequency, viewability and incrementality, full-funnel attribution) and define how teams interpret them.
Serve as senior technical escalation for complex retail media DSP problems, advising the strategist rather than taking the keys.
MyHorizons Platform & Automation
Act as the programmatic function’s product partner to MyHorizons: identify, scope, and test new platform features for DSP and programmatic, and support their rollout and adoption. Serve as the voice of the DSP function into the MyHorizons roadmap.
Increase use of MyHorizons across all EH team members, not only the DSP team, so the platform becomes the default way the agency runs and manages programmatic campaigns for endemic advertisers.
Drive adoption of campaign automation within MyHorizons across the programmatic function.
Internal Training & Enablement
Run a regular internal training program for the retail media DSP function: structured onboarding, recurring workshops, a defined skill ladder from junior trader to senior strategist, and refresher sessions as platforms change.
Maintain a steady cadence of internal trainings that keep the whole strategist team current and the broader Client services team.
Partnerships, Betas & Clean Rooms
Work directly with retailer and DSP stakeholders (Amazon, The Trade Desk, and retail media networks) to secure early access to beta features and programs for the agency, and convert that access into an edge for our teams.
Develop clean-room expertise such as Amazon Marketing Cloud and other retailer clean rooms for audience building, measurement, and incrementality analysis.
Identify, evaluate, and vet third-party vendor and technology partners (DSPs, measurement and verification vendors, data and clean-room providers, supply partners), and recommend which EH adopts, including commercial and technical due diligence.
Assess emerging retail media programmatic channels (CTV, audio, retail media offsite networks) and decide what EH adopts and recommends.
Adoption & Managed Spend Growth
Drive adoption of programmatic across our client base of endemic advertisers and grow the managed ad spend EH runs in this medium agency-wide, through stronger methodology, new channels and betas, training, and wider client uptake of best practice.
Scope & Accountability
This is an internal expert and enablement role. The Director is available as an internal expert for escalations and pitches on request, and will join external client meetings on an ad hoc basis to support channel expansion.
No book of clients and no P&L responsibility.
Key Performance Indicators
This role is held to KPIs that include:
Growth in managed ad spend in programmatic across the entire agency.
Adoption of programmatic across EH’s client base.
Adoption of MyHorizons across EH team members.
Adoption of campaign automation within MyHorizons.
What Sets You Apart
Deep, hands-on programmatic expertise for endemic advertisers within Amazon’s DSP.
Demonstrated mastery of at least Amazon DSP and The Trade Desk, plus a working understanding of the broader ad-tech ecosystem.
Experience building programmatic measurement frameworks, especially audience strategy and incrementality, using retailer or first-party data.
A history of building methodology and standards, not only running campaigns.
Direct experience running internal training and upskilling programs.
Experience working with a campaign management or automation platform, ideally including a role in scoping or testing new features and driving their adoption.
Experience vetting and selecting third-party vendors or ad-tech partners.
Working knowledge of clean rooms such as Amazon Marketing Cloud, with the ability to build that expertise further.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships with retailer and DSP stakeholders to access beta programs.
Comfort working across distributed, offshore teams.
Benefits
Competitive base salary and commission, so your results and ambition are truly rewarded.
Fully remote culture, with collaborative hubs in New York, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Seattle; join us from anywhere, but connect where opportunity grows.
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance with a minimum company contribution, 401(k) match to plan for your future, and flexible PTO and wellness days to support both your personal and professional well-being.
Career growth support, ongoing learning opportunities, 1:1 leadership coaching program, and structured mentorship opportunities.
Engaging virtual team events and activities throughout the year.
Partnership with Talkspace for free mental health support.
Why Envision Horizons?
Culture-Driven: Our values: Be a Leader, Get It Done, Be Inquisitive, and Have Humility, are more than words. They’re the foundation of every win and the reason our team stays and grows.
Empowered Growth: With open leadership, mentorship, and real opportunities for upskilling and career pathing, your ambition won’t hit a ceiling here.
Opportunity for Impact: Small enough that your voice matters and big enough to work with the world’s most exciting brands.
True Flexibility: Design your workday around life, wherever you are, with both remote autonomy and collaborative energy.
Envision Horizons is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds, and everyone is encouraged to apply. Envision Horizons is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
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