Ad Ops Coordinator

Description

We are looking for an Ad Ops Coordinator to coordinate the end-to-end lifecycle of online and offline ad campaigns. Your goal is to support our media planners & buyers by ensuring all media buys are trafficked accurately, help troubleshoot technical issues, coordinate production of printed media, and confirm ad quality across platforms and vendors. 

About You

You’re detail-obsessed, organized, and energized by making media campaigns run flawlessly behind the scenes. You enjoy coordinating timelines, trafficking ads, and ensuring creative assets meet specs and launch accurately across platforms and vendors — both online and offline. You’re comfortable learning tech tools, supporting multiple people, and jumping in to troubleshoot when something just isn’t right.  

You’re proactive, dependable, and collaborative — someone who communicates clearly, follows through, and values getting the details right so great media strategies show up exactly as intended in the real world.

About Us

We’re a full-service agency with offices in Des Moines, Sioux Falls and Portland. At the heart of our success has always been human creativity. The role of brilliant individuals, and their original ideas, remains just as relevant today as when we opened our doors 40 years ago. That’s why we continue to take care of our own like we take care of our clients.

Responsibilities

• Integrated Campaign Setup: Coordinate the technical delivery of omnichannel media plans, ensuring digital tags and assets are delivered to vendors on schedule.
• Responsible for setting up, testing, quality assurance and optimizing advertising campaigns across a variety of ad tech platforms.
• Digital Trafficking & QA: Manage end-to-end setup in Google Campaign Manager 360 (CM360) and execution in DSPs (The Trade Desk), upload creative, perform quality assurance on all tracking pixels and creative specs & trafficking. 
• Ensure ad creative adheres to technical specifications and troubleshoot creative issues that affect implementation, tracking, and reporting. 
• Offline Media Coordination: Act as a liaison for offline media buys, purchase orders, managing traffic instructions for broadcast, OOH spec, and print partners to ensure creative alignment. Collect Proof of Performance documentation. 
• Troubleshooting: Trouble shoot campaign setup and work to ensure problem resolution. Supports buyers with vendor relationships. 
• Tech Savvy: Possess a desire to stay current on industry changes, resourceful and a quick learner. 
• Administrative Support: Manage credit cards and receipt tracking for clients in partnership with Accounting to ensure accurate billing. Project management including the onboarding / offboarding clients in Smartsheet’s, platforms, software, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Advertising, or a related field preferred.
• 0-2 years of experience in Marketing/Advertising or similar role (internships considered).
• Possess strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Experience in Microsoft Excel and exposure to or awareness of agency software such as demand side platforms (DSPs) and digital ad servers (CM360), as well as offline media buying processes a plus.

Perks + Benefits

• Office in the heart of downtown — steps away from art, culture and some of the city’s best spots for coffee, lunch and happy hour.
• Free downtown parking.
• Comprehensive plans for group health, dental, vision and life insurance.
• 401k with company match.
• Plenty of Personal Time Off (PTO), plus paid holidays.
• Potential for bonuses based on success of agency.
• Even more money for Employee Referral Program.
• Extracurriculars that tend to be historic events.