Trading Team Lead

Trading Team Lead (m/f/d)

Berlin, Bangalore, Remote ________________________

Hello👋I am Willian, Customer Success Lead at Kayzen, and I am now looking for a Trading Team Lead to join our team 🙌

In this role, you will lead the team of Traders to improve campaign performance and scale and offer clients hands-off approach freeing their internal resources.

But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before?😃

Kayzen is a mobile demand-side platform (DSP) dedicated to democratizing programmatic advertising. We enable leading app developers, agencies, media buyers, and brands to run programmatic customer acquisition, retargeting, and branding campaigns in both self-serve and managed service modes.

Built on the three core pillars of performance, transparency, and control, Kayzen powers the world's best mobile marketing teams to take programmatic advertising in-house.

With an unprecedented scale of >160bn daily ad requests from 2bn+ unique users worldwide, we serve more than 500M ads per day in 180 countries. Kayzen is accessible through our APIs or user interface.

The Team

You will work with a carefully selected, diverse and globally distributed team from customer success, engineering, data science, design, marketing, product and more. We are highly motivated and aligned in our quest to disrupt the multi-billion dollar mobile ad-tech industry.

Sounds interesting. Isn't it?

The Role

As our Trading Team Lead, your primary focus will be to own and drive the growth and professionalization of the Campaign Management Team (currently 4 team members), setting ambitious, yet achievable, goals and helping the team members to reach their full potential. You bring industry experience and best practices in programmatic campaign management to the table, ensuring that our clients benefit from best-in-class budget management and optimization.

Since I am based in Argentina and other key product and customer success team members are located mostly across EMEA and India, we are open to a remote setup of this position. For optimal overlap with customers’ time zones and internal teams your main working location should preferably be close to the CET time zone.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and own execution of comprehensive campaign strategies, combining deep understanding of the advertiser goals and strong data analysis alongside Trading and CSM team members.

• Make timely, data-informed decisions in a fast-paced environment, utilizing educated assumptions to optimize campaign performance and seize growth opportunities.

• Foster a feedback-driven culture between Trading and Product team, identifying improvements to enhance campaign success and contributing to the product roadmap and ad hoc solutions.

• Set and communicate clear goals, motivating and supporting the Trading team to achieve KPIs.

• Support career-pathing and maintain strong performance of the Trading team.

• Be the leader in the best practices of using the Kayzen DSP and offer insights on how to improve campaign effectiveness through the platform’s functionalities. (e.g. A/B testing, Optimisation Techniques, and other new approaches)

• Build the Trading Desk knowledge base, including creating training collateral and internal resources for campaign management through Kayzen platform.

• Collaborate closely with the CSM team to develop onboarding plans for managed customers and align on strategy for seamless campaign execution.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of team leadership experience in the mobile advertising industry

• 4+ years experience of programmatic or mobile ad buying in performance channels and client engagement 

• Excellent data analysis and visualization skills.

• Strong communication skills with an emphasis on clarity and over-communication.

• Proficient in logical, hypothesis-driven thinking.

• Detail-oriented,process driven, with a structured approach to problem-solving Strong work ethic, results-oriented, and highly proactive.

• Demonstrated ability to make fast, strategic decisions based on educated assumptions and data insights in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

What do we offer?

• Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity.

• A unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs who bring massive change to the Adtech market.

• Direct, day-to-day work experience with the management.

• A fun, driven, and multinational team located across Germany, India, Argentina, Ukraine, Turkey, the UK and more countries.

• A flexible work-from-home arrangement.

• A 500-dollar home-office setup budget

• A 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget.