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Senior SSP Activation Specialist, Japan

  • Hybrid -
    • Tokyo, Japan
  • Commercial
  • Permanent - Full Time

Senior SSP Activation Specialist, Japan

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Job ID: r20623

What You'll Do:

Criteo Commerce Grid is Criteo’s global SSP, harnessing commerce data to maximize media owner revenue, drive better outcomes for advertisers, and help retailers unlock the value of their shopper data. In Japan, Commerce Grid is a strategic growth pillar. We partner with publishers, retailers, agencies and DSPs to build a differentiated commerce media ecosystem across Web, App, Video and CTV.

  • Own and grow 3rd Party DSP sales and partnerships in Japan, with a clear, proactive pipeline.

  • Lead curation service sales to agencies and advertisers, turning objectives into curated deals and packages.

  • Operate and optimize publisher supply and PMP deals across Web/App/Video/CTV, focusing on yield and performance.

  • Monitor and manage traffic quality, working with internal teams on IVT, brand safety and policy topics.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical and operational issues, partnering with global Product, R&D and Ops.

  • Act as a key Japan point of contact for APAC and global CGrid stakeholders, sharing market insights and driving new initiatives.

Who You Are:

· You bring a strong Market Creation Mindset: you see Japan as a market to create, not just capture, and are comfortable building new use cases and solutions.

· You are proactive in new business development: you design and own a pipeline with DSPs, agencies and advertisers, and you initiate proposals instead of waiting for inbound.

· You show resilience and mental toughness: you stay calm and solution‑oriented under pressure and can sustain effort over long, complex cycles.

· You have a strong achievement drive and backward‑planning approach: you work with clear KPIs, plan from the outcome back, and take ownership for impact on the CGrid business.

· You have 5+ years’ experience in Japan in one or more of: programmatic media trading, publisher monetization/SSP operations, or DSP sales/account management.

· You have deep understanding of SSP/DSP mechanics, RTB and auction logic, and hands‑on experience activating and optimizing campaigns in major DSPs.

· Strong proficiency in Amazon Ads (Amazon DSP and/or Sponsored Ads) is strongly preferred.

· You are fluent in Japanese and have business-level English (written and spoken), and you are comfortable working cross‑functionally with regional and global teams.

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!​

Who We Are:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer:

🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.

Perks & Benefits for all Criteos.

Happy people make healthy teams, so we value employee well-being above all else. Discover the perks & benefits we offer all our Criteos!!

Ways of Working

Trust and flexibility are at our core, so is the power of being together. Our hybrid model blends empowerment with shared in-person experiences, making space for both. We believe this is the most valuable way to foster collaboration in a way that helps us grow, together.

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Learning & Career Development

As your skills multiply, opportunities do too. So, we care to help you nurture your potential, identify new goals, and define what you want out of your career. Discover how we have diversified our learning resources and training catalog for you to shape greater opportunities. You care for your career growth, and we do too.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

We care to build an open future for our community and beyond. Discover how our people fuel our Corporate Social Responsibility from the bottom up, embracing but also embodying and promoting values of diversity, equity, and inclusion through everything they do. Together, we strive to build a future that truly includes everyone.

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Great people shape greater opportunities.

At Criteo, we believe great people and reliable products are essential to build an open future for all.
Everything you need to know about our culture, vision, values, and how we live them with people, both in and out of Criteo, is in our Culture Book. Discover who we are, what we do, and how we act as a company and as Criteos!
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Meet our Criteos in Japan!

Our broadest presence in APAC is in Tokyo. Established over 12 years ago in Japan, we have a stunning office in the Ebisu district where all Criteos can gather, share, and build the future of advertising together. Our team there is uniquely inclusive, energetic and friendly. By teaming up with some large Japanese partners, we have strengthened our presence sustainably across the local ADtech industry.

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