Associate, Biddable Digital Media (Social, Programmatic, Search)

Canvas Worldwide • El Segundo, CA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Canvas Worldwide is seeking an Associate, Biddable Digital Media to join their team. This role is designed to kick-start a career in digital advertising, offering hands-on experience in Social, Search, and Programmatic advertising, particularly in partnership with a leading gaming company. The Associate will learn media strategy, campaign setup, management, and reporting, collaborating with cross-functional teams and experiencing the full media campaign lifecycle. The role involves developing a working knowledge of the media space, including platform, audience, and media buying strategy, and will be at the intersection of cross-channel collaboration, working with the creative agency for creative trafficking and performance sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Advertising, Marketing or similar
• Be proactive: Show interest in constantly learning and growing
• Be outgoing: Lots of communication with internal teams and outside vendors required
• Be organized: able to work with dept head to prioritize projects across campaigns while also clearly communicating progress and project completion
• Detail-oriented with strong attention to follow through
• Strong Microsoft Office skills - especially Excel
• Ability to be flexible and a team member
• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Paid Search, Paid Social, or Programmatic is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of social, search, and programmatic media campaigns from planning through reporting.
• Collaborate with strategy, analytics, ad operations, and activation teams to develop audience recommendations, campaign approaches, and optimization strategies based on client objectives.
• Collaborate with Creative agency for creative handoff, creative builds, optimizations, and reporting
• Build, launch, monitor, and optimize campaigns within Demand Side Platforms, Social, and Search platforms, including audience creation, budget management, bulk edits, troubleshooting, and pacing oversight.
• Analyze campaign performance and reporting to identify insights and provide recommendations related to audience, platform, placement, bidding, and creative strategy.
• Conduct quality assurance across campaign setup, tagging, tracking, and launch readiness to ensure accurate implementation and performance measurement.
• Manage campaign deliverables, maintain status documents, communicate project updates, and proactively flag timeline risks or challenges.
• Assist in the development of client-facing materials including media plans, performance reports, optimization recommendations, tests-and-learns, and campaign wrap-ups.
• Support post-campaign reconciliation, billing processes, and campaign documentation.
• Conduct audience, competitive, and marketplace research to identify opportunities and inform planning recommendations.
• Coordinate with platform and vendor partners to stay informed on industry trends, product updates, and emerging opportunities.
• Participate in team brainstorms and planning discussions to contribute strategic ideas and innovation opportunities.
• Continuously develop expertise in biddable platforms, workflows, trafficking processes, reporting tools, and campaign management best practices.

Benefits

• generous medical, dental, vision, pet insurance, commuter benefits, disability and life insurance coverage, 401(k) matching, up to 14 holidays per year, a “Do Good Day,” and unlimited PTO.
• employee social and wellness events
• DEI Council
• auto purchase rebate program
• monthly wellness allowance
• in-office amenities such as fresh kombucha and an in-house barista

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level