Title: Platform Investment Specialist Location: Chicago United States Job Description: We're looking for a hungry and energetic emerging practitioner. The ideal candidate will have direct experience in digital buying, specifically in biddable media channels like programmatic, social, and search. Skills and aptitude are critical on our team, but we're also looking for plain 'ole good humans. A person who runs fast, works smart, and brings a smile to the office (or the video call) every day. The Specialist must demonstrate strong competency of the fundamentals necessary to tactical planning, activating and managing biddable media campaigns. They'll partner across our organization to build strategic plans designed with a business objective in mind. Once our measurement plan is set, they will work closely with the total team to ensure flawless execution of campaigns from setup through billing. If you're looking for VP and C-suite access this role will give you both. We have agency and brand-side veterans with show stopping pedigrees, all without the pretention and over-engineering of a holding company agency. Learn more, advance faster, and smile along the way at NOVUS. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Collaborate with leadership and peers to develop solutions that will enhance our operational efficiency, tools, and systems, and improve current workflows - Continuous refinement of digital operations process to ensure the delivery of high-quality, error-free deliverables - Maintain professional working relationships with clients and coworkers - Analyze and interpret data trends and develop improvement solutions; educate Client Services / Campaign Managers on changes to process and reoccurring issues - Support internal clients in launching and maintaining campaigns - Proactively lead campaign build to ensure flawless execution - Keep up with day-to-day management of the media plan's performance - Manage the sending and confirmation of insertion orders - Review and ensure media buys are properly executed - Manage gathering screenshots and launch reports at the beginning of campaigns - Monitor campaign performance and formulate recommendations for optimizations - Meet with sales reps to analyze value and applicability of media vehicles/tactics for media plan - Assist in development of media strategy and recommendation and helping with elements of client presentations - Maintain invoices by ensuring receipt and prompt payment through the approval process - Coordinate month-end billing process with agency Finance Team - Manage the team's daily duties, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all documents - Other duties as assigned by supervisor or department head REQUIREMENTS: - Minimum 2 years' work experience in biddable media required (digital ad operations experience a plus) and can demonstrates a history of being able to quickly learn and adapt in a fast paced, dynamic environment. - Knowledgeable in Google Campaign Manager (GCM) - Experience with self-service trade desk operation - GoogleAds and Bing certification a plus - Bachelor's degree or coursework in related industry a plus but not required - Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel) - Aptitude for building formulas, macros and V-lookups - Detail oriented, strong organizational and planning skills - Self-motivated, success driven individual with a proven track record - Strong interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills - Ability to accurately handle multiple simultaneous activities on tight deadlines - Shows strong team building skills - Demonstrates good judgment and problem-solving skills - Driven to master new skills - Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, follow-up - Working knowledge of advertising products and fulfillment procedures - Ability to interact effectively with all levels of employees and management - Strong analytical capabilities with aptitude for determining the optimal ways to setup, deliver, troubleshoot, and QA campaigns. Please Note: This is a hybrid position requiring a combination of in-office work at our Chicago location and remote work from home. The specific schedule will be finalized upon hire. We are only looking for candidates in/around the Chicago Metro Area and do not offer relocation assistance. WHY WORK AT NOVUS: We Bring Brands To Where People Live Their Lives. NOVUS is an independent local media planning and buying agency. We are focused on local media of all types including video, audio, OOH, digital, and print. We have carved out a unique position in the marketplace; with comprehensive data sets, proprietary tools and some of the best strategists in the industry, NOVUS builds and executes plans that achieve remarkable results. NOVUS provides a collaborative work environment, with career advancement potential and offers an array of benefits as well as considerable time off allowances. Additionally, as a mid-sized agency, team members have direct exposure to senior management on a regular basis and they get the opportunity to work on a range of assignments with significant responsibilities. By joining one of the premier media companies in the industry, you'll be part of a team that is passionate, engaged, forward-thinking and seizing opportunities daily. Position Salary We are committed to providing salary ranges for all open positions. Please note that the specific compensation for this role will be determined based on your experience, qualifications, location, and internal equity considerations. The salary range for this position is: $55,000 - 65,000. This range reflects the base salary for this position. NOVUS Benefits NOVUS offers a full array of health care and wellness benefits, which currently includes medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurances, short and long-term disability, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, legal services, identity theft protection and an employee assistance program. Eligible employees are those that are full-time salaried or part-time salaried employees working 30 hours per week or more, as well as those whose eligibility is required by applicable state law. A group retirement savings plan is also available to all salaried employees. While the Company continually seeks to improve upon and add to its current benefits suite, it believes you will find the benefit programs as comprehensive as any in the industry. A Word on Diversity Novus Media is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against and applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, marital or family status, age, gender identity or expression, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our agency is committed to creating a workplace where every employee feels welcomed, respected, and valued. We embrace diversity in all its forms, and we strongly encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to apply.

Role Description Accountable end-to-end leader for the Axtra Retail Intelligence Platform (ARIP) — strategy, roadmap, 22-FTE team build, DEAA partnership, governance, and commercial outcomes across 5 product suites and 15 named agents on a ฿45–60M build budget. The most consequential leadership hire in the 2026 DT programme; every other ARIP role's success depends on this one being filled well and early. Remote candidates outside of Thailand are welcome to apply. - Own ARIP platform roadmap end-to-end — wave sequencing (W1 pre-Oct 2026 through W4 Oct 2027+), suite prioritisation, and ROI tracking against ฿45–60M build budget - Resolve all open ARIP architectural decisions (D-003 to D-029) on documented timelines; chair Architecture Review Board (fortnightly) and ARIP Steering Committee (monthly) - Lead Phase A–C recruitment: 3 Tech Leads (Phase A), 8 ICs (Phase B), 7 specialists (Phase C) across the 22-FTE steady-state plan - Own ARIP–DEAA interface day-to-day — KGIP consumption, LLM Gateway service contracts, joint Data Engineer allocation - Drive Wave 2 Supplier Suite delivery (Oct 2026–Mar 2027) with a ฿20M Y1 rebate-uplift target; cascade Wave 3 RetailOps + S5 MVP (Apr–Sep 2027) and Wave 4 Commerce (Oct 2027+) - Chair Agent Review Board (fortnightly), Cost Review (monthly), Platform Leads Sync (weekly); present quarterly business review to CFO + CTDOs Qualifications - 12+ years in software / data / AI engineering - 5+ years in Director / VP / Head role with P&L accountability and 20+ FTE team builds - Shipped AI-native products at scale — agentic systems, ML platforms, or decisioning engines — with evidenced commercial outcomes, not just demos - Strong technical depth in at least one: agent runtimes (LangGraph / CrewAI), LLM platforms, classical ML deployment at scale, lakehouse architectures - Programme governance: chaired steering committees, presented to C-suite and Group board, managed ฿100M+ capital budgets - Retail / commerce domain fluency preferred; transferable from regulated multi-stakeholder vertical (banking, telecom, healthcare) - Calibre: Head of Platform / Director of AI Products from Agoda, Grab, Shopee, SCBX, KBank, True Digital, or comparable ASEAN AI-native platform

• Design and build an integrated data platform — unify our existing tools and pipelines into a cohesive, scalable architecture that serves the entire organization. • Own data pipelines and SLAs end to end, ensuring data moves reliably between systems with clear expectations and well-defined metrics. • Define and manage data contracts that prevent upstream changes from breaking downstream analytics, establishing the standards the team builds on. • Shape the data strategy and platform roadmap — research new technologies, evaluate trade-offs, and introduce tools and frameworks as the platform evolves. • Stand up observability across the platform — robust monitoring and telemetry so teams can understand system health and troubleshoot quickly. • Partner with Product, Compliance, and Security on data governance, balancing user needs with regulatory requirements. • Participate in an on-call rotation to support production data systems.

• Design, build, and operate the internal developer platform and self-service tooling that streamline delivery for engineering teams • Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; improve build reliability, speed, and developer self-service • Run infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) to provision, secure, and scale cloud and Kubernetes environments • Implement and operate observability: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting; respond to incident and service requests • Harden platforms and manage risk: implement security baselines and vulnerability management (SecOps) and optimize cloud spend with cost guardrails and reporting (FinOps)