Location: Madrid, Spain (Onsite)
Team: Publisher Success
About Refinery89
Refinery89 is a Dutch AdTech company headquartered in Madrid, working with premium publishers worldwide to optimize programmatic advertising performance. Through advanced, data-driven technology, Refinery89 helps publishers increase revenue, improve efficiency, and gain greater transparency across their monetization stack.
The company operates with an international, highly specialized team focused on delivering measurable results, operational excellence, and long-term partnerships in an evolving digital advertising ecosystem.
About the Role
As a Technical Account Manager Intern, you will join our Publisher Success team and learn the craft of keeping BENELUX publishers healthy and well-supported. In Technical Account Management we're the handymen of the operation — hands-on, active, and always willing to dig in — so this role is built for a "doer" who wants to learn by doing.
You won't need any Adtech background to start. Through structured onboarding you'll learn to monitor a small set of accounts, read the numbers that matter, and communicate clearly with publishers in Dutch and English, growing over time toward owning accounts of your own. What we're looking for is the person and the drive to learn, not a CV full of certifications.
Key Responsibilities
Account Monitoring & Health Checks
- Learn to run basic health checks on BENELUX publishers' sites using browser tools.
- Watch a small set of assigned accounts and flag anything that looks off.
Reading the Numbers
- Learn to read the core metrics — fill rate, CPM, RPM — and spot when a site needs attention.
- Escalate issues to the team rather than deciding alone.
Communication & Hand-offs
- Write clean, clear hand-offs (page link, screenshot, and a plain description of what you see).
- Keep publishers updated in plain Dutch and English, with support on the trickier conversations.
Learning & Growth
- Steadily build up your knowledge of the stack — Prebid, Google Ad Manager, SSPs, and reporting — through structured onboarding.
- Grow toward owning accounts over time.
Must-have Skills & Experience
- Fluent Dutch and English (both are essential).
- A genuine eagerness to learn.
- Directness and honesty — comfortable saying "I don't know yet."
- Clear communication.
- Comfort around computers and the web, plus basic numeracy with percentages.
- Reliability.
No adtech knowledge, years of experience, or certifications required — we train all of it from zero.
Preferred Background
- Recent graduates or early-career people from media, marketing, communications, business, or any technical field.
- Career-changers with a self-built technical hobby, or anyone from a junior client-facing or support role who shows curiosity and directness.
- Any brush with advertising, media, marketing, or the web — even a hobby (a blog, a WordPress site, a monetised channel).
- Having ever opened browser dev tools or seen a bit of HTML.
- Basic spreadsheet comfort.
None of these raise the bar — they just help a candidate stand out.
Interview Process
The interview process for this role consists of three stages:
1. Initial screening – Introductory 15-minute call with a recruiter.
2. First interview – 15-minute conversation with the Hiring Manager / TAM team.
3. Technical test – A practical exercise to see how you approach the work.
Each stage is designed to assess role alignment, collaboration style, and long-term fit, while giving clear visibility into how Refinery89 operates and what success looks like in the role.