Director, Ad Ops

New York City, NY (On-site)

$121K/yr – $194K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end governance and delivery for the Technology & Activation Group across client intake, QA, resource planning, and technology partnerships, while guiding solution design, adoption, and thought leadership to advance client tech roadmaps.

  • Own governance, QA, and staffing across client engagements
  • Drive technology strategy, partner adoption, and solutions with account teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Technology & Activation Group Leadership
  • Lead the development, documentation, and enforcement of client-specific intake and workflow governance processes, including JIRA intake, traffic sheet submission standards, taxonomy handoff protocols, revision management, approval workflows, and SLA adherence.
  • Maintain rigorous QA standards for regulated client environments, ensuring trafficking, tags, URLs, macros, platform IDs, and documentation are accurate, traceable, and aligned to approved workflows before handoff.
  • Work with media account teams to properly position and consult in the Technology & Activation capability
  • Engage with media team directors to scope client-by-client Technology & Activation Group personnel and deliverables
  • Manage assignment of resources across client teams
  • Along with other Publicis Collective digital leadership, manage Technology & Activation Group team members’ training and career development
  • Create and distribute simple, comprehensive, and meaningful documentation that captures the development of processes and requirements
  • Technology Partner Adoption & Expertise
  • Work with account teams to ensure full knowledge and utilization of existing platforms and technologies. Work with vendors to provide training as necessary.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years of experience working with marketing technology tools and data mining / business intelligence systems (e.g. ad server and dynamic creative technology, tag management systems, DMPs, verification measurement platforms, reporting and data modeling dashboards, etc.)
  • Knowledge of media buying purpose and process within agencies and client organizations
  • Knowledge of digital and traditional media planning, implementation, optimization and reporting process and technologies such as: Planning platforms/process, Ad Servers, Bid Management, DSP's, Research Partners, Reporting Partners, Tagging, Verification, Privacy, content management, site side analytics, audience intelligence, etc.
  • Marketing technology Platforms experience, working knowledge of:
  • Google360 products, including but not limited to Campaign Manager, SA360, DV360
  • Adserver/DCO/Verification tools: i.e. Innovid, Smartly, IAS, Doubleverify
  • DSP’s i.e. DV360, The Trade desk, Amazon DSP
  • Tag Management i.e. GTM, Adobe Launch
  • Site measurement platforms i.e. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics
  • Social platforms i.e. FB, Instagram, TikTok

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Publicis Collective

As the traditional marketing funnel collapses and fragmentation increases, clients rely on Publicis Collective to be the agency where their media, data, technology, and teams are connected by what matters most – business outcomes. Our strategic agency design, with the OS at the center, allows our expert practitioners to scale with precision, delivering media that drives measurable business performance and transformation. It's worth mentioning that we’re part of the global Publicis Media network. This means we’re backed by the power, resources, and scale of Publicis Groupe, one of the largest and most celebrated marketing and communications platforms on the planet. What’s special about Collective is this - our consultative practitioners think beyond media. We aim to be catalysts for business growth and innovation. We aspire to be the leading media agency for powering business outcomes, known for our unrelenting dedication to excellence.

New York, New York, USA
708 employees (236 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~708

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
232 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
16

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