Paid Media Operations Manager (Contractor) | Irvine, CA or Remote (US)

Irvine, CA (Remote)

$30/hr – $56/hrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end paid media creative operations, coordinating global teams and partners to keep campaigns moving from intake to localization and approvals.

  • Own creative operations: intake, scoping, QA, asset delivery, and final assets across multiple regions.
  • Coordinate copy development, localization handoffs, and activation readiness with cross-functional partners.
  • Identify risks and blockers early and communicate mitigation steps to keep timelines intact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for paid media creative operations across global paid marketing, brand, creative, and agency partners
  • Successfully manage end-to-end creative operations for paid media campaigns, including intake, scoping, QA, and delivery of all asset deliverables (e.g., spec sheets, creative briefs, trackers, and final assets)
  • Oversee copy development workflows from intake through approvals, localization handoff, and activation readiness
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders on timelines, deliverables, and priorities across concurrent creative workstreams
  • Facilitate timely and actionable creative feedback cycles that drive stakeholder alignment, maintain quality standards, and ensure on-time execution
  • Route all assets and copies through the required approval processes, including legal and ESRB
  • Coordinate the timely delivery of approved assets to regional teams for localization
  • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and downstream impacts related to timeline or scope changes, and communicate mitigation plans
  • Own and improve paid media operational workflows, implementing scalable solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Support optimization of tools and systems (e.g. trackers, asset repositories, project management systems) to improve operational visibility and rigor

Requirements

  • 5+ years of recent paid media operations, campaign operations, or creative project management experience required
  • Ability to become productive quickly and contribute effectively in a contract-based role with defined project timelines and deliverables
  • Strong project management skills; able to manage complex workflows and drive deliverables across multiple stakeholders
  • Excellent communication skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
  • Comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-growth team environment
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong QA instincts
  • Flexibility to support occasional evening or weekend work during peak campaign periods

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
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • 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
  • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
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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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