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You’ll take escalated cases from Account Managers and monitoring alerts, find what is holding a publisher back, fix it, and show what the fix is worth. You’ll proactively find areas of improvement based on investigation of health KPIs. You’ll work with Product, R&D and Algorithms to improve both individual publishers and the bidder as a whole. This is a temporary replacement for a maternity leave position that may expand into a full time role.\nTo thrive in this role, you'll need:\n4+ years in ad-tech, programmatic, publisher operations, solutions engineering or another technical, customer-facing role\nStrong SQL: you can go from a metric movement to a root cause and check your own query for double counting\nExperience debugging on live publisher pages with browser DevTools: inspecting the DOM, tracing bid requests and responses in the Network tab, checking console errors and timing\nExperience working with HTML, CSS and JS, able to read a publisher's page source, find where an ad unit or widget is rendered, and style or adjust a widget\nThe ability to explain technical findings and their business value to Account Managers and publishers, with the business impact first\nExcellent written and spoken English\nBonus points if you have:\nHands-on knowledge of Header Bidding / Prebid and RTB, including bid requests and responses, floors, ad sizes, timeouts and SSP behavior. \nExperience reading Prebid.js configurations or wrapper code to understand how a page calls our bidder\nExperience building dashboards or internal tools for non-technical users, or running training programs\nExperience with AI-assisted workflows or building agents\nHow you’ll make an impact:\nInvestigate and resolve escalated Header Bidding cases end to end: diagnose with data, fix the configuration and quantify the uplift\nLook for patterns that affect many publishers, such as shared presets, ad sizes, blocking rules and floors, instead of only reacting to cases\nBe the technical voice for Account Managers and, when needed, publishers: explain what happened, what we changed and what it is worth\nPresent findings and recommendations to business stakeholders, and help Sales frame technical optimization as a commercial story\nJoin client pitch calls as a technical expert, helping clients understand what is needed to work with us\nUse SQL (Vertica), Salesforce, Grafana, Tableau and AI tools to speed up analysis and documentation\nWhy Taboola?\nIf you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:\nAdam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”\nWell-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking)\nFlexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.\nWork with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.\nReady to realize your potential?\nTaboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. 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