Media Operations Specialist

Oakland, CA (On-site)

$91K/yr – $210K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize end-to-end media operations and campaign execution across multiple channels, lead creative ops, vendor partnerships, budgeting, and data-driven optimizations.

  • Campaign management and live media planning
  • Creative operations, QA, and mapping standards
  • Performance insights and optimization recommendations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign management and execution. Maintain and own live media plans from launch- manage pacing reports, reallocations, and value-added workflows (added-value units, bonus impressions, makegoods). Oversee campaign optimizations and budget updates.
  • Own the end-to-end creative operations framework, including tracking, trafficking, rights management, and documentation. Establish and enforce naming conventions, QA protocols, and audience-to-creative mapping standards across teams and partners. Ensuring the right content reaches the right end customer/retailers. Continuously evaluate workflows, identify inefficiencies, and design scalable solutions that improve speed, accuracy, and performance across the media ecosystem.
  • Oversee campaign set up across Programmatic, Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads, and others. QA placements, creatives, audiences, and tracking pixels. Serve as the final escalation point for trafficking and QA issues, providing guidance and resolving complex execution challenges across teams and platforms.
  • Manage vendor relationships. Evaluate new media opportunities that help deliver Clorox business and marketing objectives. Lead execution of larger partnerships from initial concepting to evaluating performance.
  • Budgeting and financial management. Mange internal budget tracking and optimizations. Responsible for communicating budget updates to agencies and tracking spend across internal and external budget management systems.
  • Generate campaign optimizations based on insights. Work with Analytics, Brand, Insights and agencies to analyze consumer research, competitive data and media performance. Generate inputs and insights into performance reports and make optimization recommendations.

Requirements

  • 3-6 years of hands-on media operations, ad trafficking, or campaign management experience — agency, publisher, retail media network, or in-house brand.
  • Demonstrated experience with DSPs, social platforms and/or managed service media buys. Retail Media experience preferred (Amazon, Walmart, Target).
  • Ad trafficking platforms — expert hands-on: Google Campaign Manager 360 (CM360), Google Ad Manager (GAM), Display & Video 360 (DV360), Search Ads 360 (SA360).
  • Retailer ad servers and self-service consoles: Amazon Ads Console + DSP, Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, Instacart Ads, Criteo.
  • Social ad managers: Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, Pinterest, Snap, Reddit Ads.
  • QA workflows: ad-spec validation, third-party tag testing (Charles Proxy, browser dev tools), pre-launch checklists, post-launch validation.
  • Privacy compliance literacy: GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, consent-mode tagging.
  • Excel/Sheets fluency for pacing reports and reconciliation; bonus for SQL or Looker Studio.
  • Naming-convention and taxonomy discipline; documentation rigor.
  • AI-native ways of working: comfort using AI assistants for trafficking checklists, anomaly detection, and SOP drafting.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs.
  • Robust health plans.
  • Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match.
  • Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location).
  • Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits.
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The Clorox Company

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The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) champions people to be well and thrive every single day. Its trusted brands include Brita®, Burt's Bees®, Clorox®, Fresh Step®, Glad®, Hidden Valley®, Kingsford®, Liquid-Plumr® and Pine-Sol® as well as international brands such as Clorinda®, Chux® and Poett®. Headquartered in Oakland, California, since 1913, Clorox was one of the first in the U.S. to integrate ESG into its business reporting. In 2024 the company was ranked No. 1 on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies list for the second consecutive year.

Founded in 1913
Oakland, California, USA
7.7K employees (732 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
68% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
100K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.5%
Direct
35.1%
Referral
8.8%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
615 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
16.5 years
Median Tenure
9.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

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