Programmatic Account Executive – Best Buy Ads (Chicago/Remote)

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Best Buy Ads is seeking a Programmatic Account Executive to support the agency partnerships efforts leveraging our first party data for high-impact digital campaigns. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to media agencies and advertisers activating in house, helping them navigate the programmatic ecosystem and optimize performance to achieve key KPIs. This individual will be responsible for generating significant adoption of programmatic activation and hitting revenue goals. In this client-facing role, you’ll lead onboarding, provide ongoing consultation and best practices. You’ll collaborate with internal teams across sales, product, and analytics to ensure client success and contribute to the evolution of our advertising solutions.

This role is remote eligible, which means you will work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. However, you must be located within a commutable distance to the Chicago metro area. The specific work arrangements may vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build and maintain relationships with programmatic trading teams and in-house client teams aligning platform capabilities with client goals.
  • Have account ownership of programmatic only advertisers
  • Ensure that programmatic revenue targets are being achieved
  • Respond to RFPs in collaboration with agency partnership team members across the holidng companies.
  • Create Deal IDs, push audiences to advertiser's seat.
  • Lead onboarding and training sessions, develop support plans, and share industry insights to drive adoption.
  • Analyze campaign performance data to identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and recommend optimizations along with our DSP partners.
  • Provide weekly performance reporting externally and internally
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to relay client feedback and support beta feature rollouts.
  • Contribute to process improvements to enhance the client experience.
Basic Qualifications:
  • 5+ years in programmatic advertising sales or digital media consulting
  • Experience working directly with clients and agency account teams in a strategic or technical capacity
  • Strong understanding of DSPs, ad tech, and campaign optimization
  • Ability to analyze data and communicate insights clearly
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or related field

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in retail media or e-commerce advertising Familiarity with omni-channel marketing strategies
  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • Experience with analytics platforms, DMPs, or CDPs

What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Generous employee discount
  • Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

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