Feeds & Automation Engineer, Mediaocean
Ad Tech, Flashtalking
$100-110k
The mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising
Job no longer available
The mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100-110k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Mediaocean's mission is to help omnichannel advertisers consolidate their media intelligence, management, and finance into a single platform.
Role
Who you are
- PHP (“raw” PHP knowledge is more desirable than experience only in website building and development libraries)
- Experience ETL processing with XML, JSON, and delimited files
- Deep understanding of RESTful protocols
- Understanding of various caching schemas
- AWS / Cloud experience, specifically with DynamoDB and S3
- MongoDB
- JavaScript
- InfluxDB
- HTML
- Understanding of how CDNs work
- Can effectively communicate in English
What the job involves
- In this position you will interact with the US Feeds team who will determine technical requirements, outline data transformations, and description the campaign strategies
- All of this information will be communicated through Jira tickets, emails, slacks, and phone conversations (if necessary)
- You will need to work within the predefine set of tools to meet the described requirements
- Translate written Jira requirements into ETL processes
- Create product catalogs by synthesizing multiple data sets and performing data transforms
- Use FTPs, PHP on AWS EC2 instances, Mongo, and Power Feeds (Flashtalking proprietary platform) to load and manipulate product data
- Use Flashtalking developed tools to create CRON Jobs and run scheduled ETL process
- Learn product functionality of Power Feeds and understand it’s technical advantages and limitations
- Use error monitoring tools to ensure that any ETL processing errors are caught and flagged to the larger team
- Follow best practices that have been outlined by the Feeds team
- Document and call out issues within the data or Jira requirements
Our take
Advertising used to be a simple process, with campaign formats existing of TV, print, and out-of-home, but the increased variety of digital devices these days has resulted in a demand for omnichannel advertisement. This is not only complicated due to needing to customize content for CTV, mobile, and other emerging content formats, but also because each campaign must be managed, financed, and analyzed for success.
Mediaocean provides an omnichannel advertisement management platform that facilitates the management of advertisement media buying for any format. In addition to media management, the platform also includes data analysis tools for the optimization of campaign success and a media accounting dashboard for the management of advertisement financing.
Whilst new omnichannel advertisement platforms are appearing regularly, Mediaocean stands out with its end-to-end approach, as opposed to focussing on media buying, accounting, or data analysis like most competitors. Furthermore, whilst users can access Mediaocean's solutions through its unified platform, the company also provides APIs to allow for integrations with other advertising workflows and platforms.
Underscoring this end-to-end approach is Mediaocean's acquisition of Innovid in 2024. This will further expand Mediaocean's reach, as it merges its acquisition with another omnichannel business - Flashtalk - that it purchased in 2021. This portfolio merging will increase the control and choice advertisers have over data and decisions as to where ad spend goes.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2008
$30m
SERIES B
Jul 2007
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.5m
Company benefits
- Wellness and mental health - Workout classes, webinars, discounted gym memberships, healthy snacks, and Headspace subscriptions are combined with an Employee Assistance Program to provide extra support for our team members
- Parental benefits - Mediaocean provides maternity and paternity leave, fertility assistance, bonding leave
- Vacation - Take advantage of global PTO policies, paid holidays, and time off to volunteer and give back to local communities
- Retirement planning - 401K plans, pension plans, and superannuation plans help our global employees prepare for life after MO
- Healthcare - Competitive healthcare and insurance benefits for individuals and families vary by office location and country of residence
- Company culture - Holiday and summer parties, happy hours, weekly breakfasts, trivia nights, book clubs, career circles, and global philanthropy efforts are just some of our cultural programs at Mediaocean
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Bill Wise
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously founded Yobi and Click Ventures, and is Chariman at MediaWallah.
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