Digital Ad Operations Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$79K/yr – $142K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end campaign activation and optimization across paid media, guiding testing, DCO strategies, and cross-functional collaboration to drive performance.

  • Define testing frameworks and success criteria that translate business goals into actionable experiments.
  • Identify optimization opportunities from campaign data and DCO outcomes to inform creative and targeting decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end campaign activation and execution across paid media channels.
  • Ensure campaigns are launched accurately, on schedule, and aligned with media plans, targeting requirements, and business objectives.
  • Lead the operational implementation of campaign targeting and DCO decision-tree strategies, ensuring creative variations, audience logic, and personalization frameworks are accurately deployed across ad serving and activation platforms.
  • Monitor campaign implementation, creative execution, and tracking integrity throughout the campaign lifecycle, proactively identifying and resolving operational risks.
  • Troubleshoot campaign, creative, tracking, and reporting issues while ensuring timely resolution and stakeholder communication.
  • Lead campaign kickoff discussions to identify creative testing opportunities, personalization strategies, audience segmentation approaches, and DCO activation plans.
  • Partner with Marketing, Media, Programmatic, Analytics, and Creative stakeholders to develop testing hypotheses, measurement plans, success criteria, and learning agendas aligned with business objectives.
  • Translate business goals into actionable testing frameworks, including creative, audience, offer, and messaging experiments designed to drive performance and learning.
  • Analyze creative performance data, A/B testing results, and DCO outcomes to identify trends, measure creative effectiveness, and generate actionable insights.
  • Evaluate creative, messaging, offer, audience, and personalization performance to develop optimization recommendations that improve campaign effectiveness and customer engagement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of related work experience OR advanced degree with 1 year of related work experience OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent. Acceptable fields of study include Marketing, Business, or related field.
  • 4+ years of experience in Ad Operations, Campaign Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Operations, Media Operations, or a related field.
  • Experience managing end-to-end digital campaign activation across paid media channels.
  • Experience with ad serving platforms, campaign trafficking, QA, and creative implementation.
  • Experience developing and executing creative testing strategies and Test-and-Learn initiatives.
  • Experience analyzing campaign, creative, and testing data to develop actionable business recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), audience segmentation, and personalization strategies.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Media, Programmatic, Analytics, and Creative.
  • Excellent project management, organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • At least 18 years of age

Preferred

  • Experience with DCO platforms such as Innovid or similar creative optimization technologies.
  • Experience working with DSPs, ad servers, and digital measurement platforms.
  • Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership and business stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of digital advertising best practices, campaign measurement, and creative performance analysis.
  • Experience supporting large-scale marketing initiatives within a matrixed organization.
  • Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and advancing creative optimization through data-driven decision-making.

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision insurance
  • a flexible spending account
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock grants
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance
  • mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs!
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