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# Senior Manager, Programmatic Technical Solutions at Wunderkind

- **Company:** Wunderkind
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://www.wunderkind.co/careers/?gh_jid=8249462

## Job description

About Wunderkind:

Wunderkind Ads creates high-impact advertising experiences across premium publisher inventory, delivering ads at moments designed to maximize consumer attention without disrupting content consumption.

Our proprietary technology is integrated directly with publisher partners to create net-new advertising opportunities across display, video, and Connected TV (CTV). As we continue to scale our programmatic business, ensuring campaigns launch, ramp, and deliver successfully across an increasingly complex ecosystem is critical to our growth.

About the Role:

Wunderkind is seeking a highly technical and solutions-oriented Senior Manager, Programmatic Technical Solutions to join our Ads organization.

This role will serve as a key technical escalation point for programmatic campaign and deal delivery, responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex issues across DSPs, SSPs, publishers, and Wunderkind's advertising technology.

When a campaign or deal ID isn't spending as expected, this person will own figuring out why and driving the issue through resolution.

The ideal candidate understands how programmatic transactions work end-to-end and is comfortable getting deep into campaign, platform, bidstream, and log-level data to determine where a transaction is breaking down. You'll work across advertisers, agencies, DSPs, SSPs, publishers, and Wunderkind's internal Sales, Account Management, Operations, Product, and Engineering teams.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and understands how programmatic advertising works under the hood.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York office.

## Key Responsibilities

- Technical Troubleshooting: Serve as a key technical escalation point for display, video, and Connected TV (CTV) campaigns and deal IDs that are not bidding, winning, ramping, or spending as expected.
- Deal Activation & Delivery: Troubleshoot PMP and Programmatic Guaranteed deals across deal configuration, targeting, creative approvals, pricing, inventory eligibility, CPM floors, frequency, and buyer-side setup.
- Cross-Format Campaign Troubleshooting: Diagnose campaign delivery issues across display, video, and CTV, understanding the unique technical requirements, buying workflows, creative specifications, and supply paths associated with each format.
- Proactive Bidstream Analysis: Analyze bid requests, bid responses, win rates, bid density, fill rates, CPMs, and other platform data to identify where opportunities are being lost. Proactively monitoring campaign/deal health so we're identifying delivery risk before it becomes a larger revenue issue.
- DSP & SSP Troubleshooting: Diagnose issues across the full transaction path: from advertiser and DSP through SSP/exchange, Wunderkind technology, and publisher inventory.
- Campaign Ramp: Proactively monitor newly launched and high-priority campaigns, identify technical barriers to spend, and drive actions that accelerate campaign ramp.
- Technical Partner Management: Work directly with DSPs, SSPs, agencies, publishers, and technology partners to investigate and resolve complex delivery issues.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales, Account Management, and Operations to resolve advertiser-facing issues and clearly communicate root causes, ownership, and next steps. Acting as the internal technical liaison and helping AM/Ops improve their ability to handle routine troubleshooting.
- Product & Engineering Partnership: Partner with Product and Engineering when troubleshooting identifies platform issues, integration gaps, or opportunities to improve Wunderkind's advertising technology.
- Process Improvement: Identify recurring issues and build repeatable troubleshooting frameworks, documentation, monitoring, and escalation processes that enable the broader Ads organization to resolve problems faster.
- Revenue Protection: Identify technical or operational issues that could impact campaign delivery and revenue and drive urgency around their resolution.

## What We're Looking For

- Technical Problem Solver: You enjoy getting into the details of a campaign and determining why something isn't working rather than simply escalating the issue.
- Programmatic Expertise: You have a strong understanding of how programmatic transactions flow across advertisers, DSPs, SSPs/exchanges, and publisher inventory.
- Analytical Mindset: You're comfortable using campaign, platform, bidstream, and log-level data to isolate the root cause of underdelivery and identify actionable solutions.
- End-to-End Thinker: You understand that a campaign delivery issue can originate anywhere in the transaction path and know how to systematically isolate where the problem exists.
- Strong Sense of Ownership: You take responsibility for an issue from identification through resolution and can coordinate multiple internal and external stakeholders to get there.
- Strong Communicator: You can translate complex technical issues into clear explanations and actionable next steps for commercial teams, clients, and technical partners.
- Collaborative: You're comfortable working across Sales, Account Management, Operations, Product, Engineering, DSPs, SSPs, and publishers.
- Curious & Persistent: You're not satisfied simply knowing that something isn't working—you want to understand why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

Qualifications:

- 4–7 years of experience in programmatic advertising, technical ad operations, technical account management, solutions consulting, or a related ad tech function.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting PMPs, deal IDs, Programmatic Guaranteed campaigns, bid requests and responses, creative approvals, targeting, floors, and campaign delivery issues.
- Strong understanding of OpenRTB and the programmatic bidstream, including the ability to investigate bid requests, bid responses, auction behavior, and deal eligibility.
- Experience working within or closely with a DSP, SSP, publisher, agency, or programmatic advertising platform.
- Experience with major programmatic platforms such as The Trade Desk, Google DV360, Amazon DSP, PubMatic, Index Exchange, Magnite, FreeWheel, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of both the buy-side and sell-side components of the programmatic ecosystem.
- Experience troubleshooting DSP/SSP integrations and using platform or log-level data to diagnose delivery issues.
- Experience with CTV and programmatic video is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with VAST, VMAP, OpenRTB, video ad serving, and CTV supply integrations is a plus.

The base salary range for this role is $125,000–$140,000. This role is also eligible for the team’s variable incentive plan. Compensation is determined based on factors including experience, skills, and qualifications.

## About Wunderkind

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wunderkind is an AI-powered performance marketing platform that uses identity resolution and real-time intent to automate personalized messaging and drive guaranteed revenue for brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Performance marketing, AI-driven marketing, identity resolution, digital advertising
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily mid-market to enterprise e-commerce, retail, and travel brands (e.g., Harley-Davidson, Kurt Geiger, AAA, True Botanicals)
- **Mission**: To scale a brand’s ability to create and grow customer relationships through websites, email, text, and ads. [wunderkind.co](https://www.wunderkind.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Marketing Platform (AMP)**: An AI-decisioning engine that uses identity resolution and real-time behavioral data to trigger personalized messages across email, SMS, onsite, and paid media. Integrates via SDKs, APIs, or existing ESPs/CDPs.
- **Wunderkind Identity Network**: A proprietary identity graph recognizing over 9 billion devices and observing 2 trillion digital events annually, enabling brands to identify anonymous traffic without relying on third-party cookies.
- **Wunderkind AI Decisioning Engine**: Agentic AI that learns and optimizes messaging in real-time based on individual consumer behavior.
- **Wunderkind Analytics**: Real-time performance dashboards (launched March 2025) for measuring campaign impact and ROI.
- **Wunderkind AI Experiences** (2025): Agentic messaging capabilities for smarter customer engagement.
- **Deployment Models**: Self-Service (plug into existing martech stack), Fully Managed (Wunderkind handles strategy/creative/optimization), or Hybrid partnership.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $140M (as of 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)
  - Total Funding: $151.85M across 8 rounds
  - Client-attributable revenue: Over $5 billion annually
  - Client base: 700+ brands (e.g., Harley-Davidson, Shinesty, Quad Lock)
- **Notable Investors**: Battery Ventures (led Series B in 2018), Silicon Valley Bank, Contour Venture Partners, Justin Yoshimura. Also acquired SmarterHQ (2020), Augur (2017), GoChime (2016).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue scale of $140M with proven ROI guarantees.
  - Recent product launches: AI Experiences, Shopify integration (Aug 2025), Build Framework for developers (Jun 2025), and partnerships with Braze and Bloomreach.
  - Global presence: Operations in 10 countries including UK, Canada, India, Australia, Norway.
  - Headcount: 397 employees (-21.4% YoY, indicating restructuring or contraction).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest identity network for marketers**: Proprietary graph tracking 9B+ devices and 2T+ digital events, providing higher match rates than typical ESPs/CDPs.
- **Revenue guarantee**: Wunderkind contractually guarantees a lift in revenue for clients, positioning itself as a top 1-3 revenue channel in client analytics.
- **Privacy-first, cookie-independent**: Works entirely with first-party data and consent; compliant with GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2.
- **Seamless integration**: Does not require replatforming; plugs into existing marketing stacks (ESPs, CDPs, etc.).
- **Agentic AI decisioning**: Real-time optimization that adapts to individual behavior without manual rules.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI agentic capabilities**: Continued investment in autonomous decisioning and real-time personalization (e.g., AI Experiences).
- **Platform partnerships**: Deepening integrations with Braze, Bloomreach, Shopify to reach more merchants.
- **International growth**: Building presence in UK, Australia, and other markets with dedicated country managers.
- **Developer ecosystem**: Launching “Build” framework to attract developer-led integrations.
- **Privacy compliance as differentiator**: Emphasizing consent-based marketing as third-party cookies decline.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & equity**: Company equity, employee stock purchase plan, performance bonuses. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)
- **Benefits**: Dental, health, vision insurance; FSA; generous parental leave; family medical leave; commuter benefits; pet-friendly offices; free snacks/drinks. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)
- **Work arrangement**: On-site/hybrid with physical offices in NYC (HQ), Indianapolis, London, and Sydney. Typical time on-site not specified, but roles appear office-centric with flexibility.
- **Learning & culture**: Offers apprenticeship programs, job training, and conferences. The careers page describes a “two-way street” interviewing process and emphasis on mutual discovery of values and goals. [wunderkind.co](https://www.wunderkind.co/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical stack (Kubernetes, Python, React, Spark, Kafka, Google Cloud, etc.). Teams include ML engineers, data engineers, and product managers.
- **Caution**: Employer rating of 2.3/5 from 422 reviews on LinkedIn (work-life 2.6, culture 2.1, career 2.0) suggests employee satisfaction challenges, potentially linked to recent headcount reductions. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)

## Sources
1. [wunderkind.co - Homepage](https://www.wunderkind.co/)
2. [wunderkind.co - About](https://www.wunderkind.co/about)
3. [wunderkind.co - Careers](https://www.wunderkind.co/careers)
4. [linkedin.com - Wunderkind Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)
5. [builtin.com - Wunderkind Profile](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)

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