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Senior Manager, Programmatic & Yield Operations

Best Buy

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Minneapolis, Minnesota
POSTED
6 days ago

As a Senior Manager, Programmatic & Yield Operations, you'll be the operational backbone of Best Buy Ads' programmatic business, ensuring our ad supply is priced, trafficked, and transacted at peak efficiency across our platform ecosystem. Day to day, you'll manage our core ad tech stack, including Google Ad Manager, Magnite, and PIO, owning everything from inventory setup and floor pricing to rate card management, deal execution, and monitoring. You'll lead a team of specialists while serving as the go-to expert for platform operations, troubleshooting, and cross-functional escalations. If you're a hands-on operator who thrives in a fast-moving environment and knows programmatic infrastructure inside and out, this role was built for you. Best Buy Ads is a key part of our company's business strategy, as we deliver business results by partnering with leading brands to captivate audiences, drive engagement, and provide measurable impact.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days at our Best Buy office in Richfield, Minnesota, or New York City, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. Candidates outside these metro areas may qualify for remote work. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you'll do
  • Manage day-to-day operations across GAM, Magnite, and Placements.io, including inventory setup, trafficking, and platform configuration
  • Own floor pricing, rate card strategy, product-to-placement mapping, and execution across guaranteed and auction-based ad products
  • Execute and optimize programmatic deal management across PMP, Programmatic Guaranteed, and Open Auction channels
  • Monitor yield performance, sell-through, and revenue pacing, using critical thinking to surface monetization opportunities and operational improvements
  • Troubleshoot platform, delivery, and partner issues, serving as the primary point of escalation while collaborating across teams to drive resolution
  • Lead, develop, and grow a team of yield operations specialists, fostering adaptability, operational rigor, and continuous improvement
  • Work closely with Sales, Media Planning, and Ads Ops to ensure our systems and tools are optimized to deliver commitments across our demand

Basic qualifications
  • 7 years of experience in ad operations or programmatic advertising within a retail media network
  • 3 years managing and developing operations or ad tech teams
  • 3 years of deep hands-on expertise with Google Ad Manager (GAM) and Magnite
  • 3 years of experience with programmatic deal structures, including PMP, Programmatic Guaranteed, and Open Auction
  • 2 years if experience with floor pricing, inventory management, and rate card governance
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate performance data into operational decisions
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional, matrixed environments

Preferred qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with Amazon DSP or other SSP/DSP platforms
  • Familiarity with CTV or streaming inventory operations
  • Proven ability to adapt to changing tools, priorities, and market conditions
  • Demonstrated success partnering closely with analytics, product, and sales teams to drive business outcomes


What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off

About the Company

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Best Buy

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1966
WEBSITE
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/