Associate Director, Advertising Operations

New York, USA (On-site)

$97K/yr – $156K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead digital media operations and ad-tech leadership to ensure scalable, high-quality campaign execution.

  • Own campaign execution across display, video, social, mobile, and programmatic channels.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in digital media (agency or publisher side) with strong ad-tech and tag management expertise.
  • Standout: Mentorship of analysts and cross-functional team leadership to standardize processes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead campaign execution and oversee process evolution in partnership with Directors and Managers, ensuring operational excellence and scalable workflows.
  • Oversee activation of digital campaigns across display, video, social, mobile, gaming, and programmatic channels, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with media strategy.
  • Lead strategic conversations with clients and media teams around technology integrations, finding opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance data quality, and enable advanced capabilities.
  • Oversee the trafficking process across the team, ensuring accuracy and consistency in campaign setup, including ownership of complex implementations such as Floodlight tags, DMP integrations, network configurations, and advanced tracking solutions.
  • Drive operational excellence by establishing effective methods, improving workflows, and proactively finding opportunities to increase efficiency, scalability, and quality across campaign execution.
  • Partner with Ad Tech leadership to design and implement standardized processes, QA frameworks, and governance to minimize errors and ensure consistent execution across accounts.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for troubleshooting technical issues, collaborating directly with media teams, creative agencies, platform partners, and vendors to resolve customer concerns efficiently.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert and inspiring leader across ad technology platforms, providing mentorship to internal teams and contributing POVs on new technologies, industry trends, and platform capabilities.
  • Manage and mentor Analyst and Senior Analysts, providing coaching, technical guidance, and professional development to strengthen team capabilities and ensure high-quality output.
  • Coordinate work across multiple clients, ensuring consistent execution, sharing guidelines across teams, and driving standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.
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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
2.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
32

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