Associate Activation Specialist (Contractor) | Irvine, CA

Irvine, CA (On-site)

$21/hr – $40/hrEntry Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own day-to-day paid media activation across programmatic and social platforms, turning data into optimization wins for ROAS, CPA, CAC, and brand lift while coordinating with the team on future media activation.

  • Responsibilities: Manage end-to-end activation across Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, and Snap with asset launches and QA.
  • Responsibilities: Monitor pacing and performance via dashboards and reporting, delivering weekly insights to improve campaign outcomes.
  • Responsibilities: Support billing and vendor relations, plus contribute to cross-team projects shaping media activation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Responsibilities: Support the successful planning, build, and launch of upcoming paid media campaigns across programmatic and social platforms such as Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, and Snap.
  • Responsibilities: Execute campaign trafficking, QA, and ad operations workflows with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness, including launching new assets and copy, generating screenshots and QA’ing live links for adherence to safe zones.
  • Responsibilities: Leverage dashboards and other available reporting tools to monitor daily pacing and evaluate the performance of active campaigns.
  • Responsibilities: Contribute to weekly performance reporting, making data-driven optimization recommendations to improve performance against KPIs such as ROAS, CPA, CAC, efficient reach, views, and brand lift.
  • Responsibilities: Support vendor billing and financial tracking processes to ensure accurate campaign reconciliation.
  • Responsibilities: Participate in larger team projects on the future of media buying and activation.

Requirements

  • Requirements: 2+ years of recent hands-on experience activating Paid Social and/or Programmatic campaigns required.
  • Requirements: Ability to become productive quickly and contribute effectively in a contract-based role with defined project timelines and deliverables.
  • Requirements: Highly self-motivated, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
  • Requirements: Strong Excel and analytical skills; able to extract actionable insights from complex data sets.
  • Requirements: Strong communication skills and a solutions-oriented mindset.
  • Requirements: Capable of managing multiple projects with competing deadlines.
  • Requirements: Comfortable managing large budgets/investment levels.
  • Requirements: Flexibility to support occasional evening or weekend work during peak campaign periods.

Preferred

  • Preferred: Certification in paid media platforms such as Meta, Reddit, TikTok, Google Ads, Snap.
  • Preferred: Passionate gamer with knowledge of Blizzard games, products, and services.

Benefits

  • Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
  • Benefits: 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
  • Benefits: Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
  • Benefits: Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
  • Benefits: If relocation is required, relocation assistance may be provided.
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Blizzard Entertainment is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: Crafting Genre-Defining Games and Legendary Worlds for All to Share. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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