Paid Media Operations Manager

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$104K/yr – $146K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and govern the measurement and tracking framework for paid media campaigns, ensuring data quality, collaboration with analytics, and operational efficiency across partners.

  • Own landing page tagging, tracking pixels, and event tracking
  • Partner with Analytics to define reporting requirements and improve dashboards

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own landing page tagging, tracking pixels, campaign parameters, event tracking, and measurement readiness across paid media campaigns
  • Establish tracking governance across platforms and landing experiences, including taxonomy standards, quality assurance processes, documentation, and pre-launch checks
  • Support and troubleshoot application programming interface connections and data flows between media platforms, analytics tools, reporting environments, and internal systems
  • Partner with Analytics to define reporting requirements, validate data quality, improve dashboards, and make performance reporting more useful for campaign analysis and decision-making
  • Work with media strategists, channel activation owners, digital operations, and agency partners to resolve measurement issues, improve workflows, and reduce operational friction
  • Provide bounded backup support for campaign trafficking or low-risk execution tasks during peak periods while maintaining primary accountability for measurement operations and enablement

Requirements

  • You have 3-5 years of experience in paid media operations, advertising operations, performance marketing infrastructure, campaign trafficking, or a closely related digital marketing discipline
  • You have a bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, analytics, data, communications, or related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
  • You have strong working knowledge of landing page tagging, tracking pixels, URL structure, taxonomy management, event setup, and campaign measurement across paid social, display, programmatic, or search channels
  • You have experience with measurement governance, quality assurance, dashboards, business intelligence tools, and reporting workflows, including Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar platforms
  • You are familiar with data flows, platform integrations, tag management systems, conversion application programming interfaces, server-side tracking, or cross-platform attribution, and you can use tools such as Structured Query Language, Python, or Querybook to validate or troubleshoot performance data
  • You communicate clearly, document workflows and launch requirements, pay close attention to data quality, and collaborate effectively with channel managers, strategists, analysts, creative partners, digital operations partners, and external agencies

Benefits

  • Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
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Founded in 2022
Seattle, Washington, USA
22K employees (1,459 in marketing)
76% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$104K/yr – $146K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$4.2B
Last Raise
$985M
Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $985M
  • Apr 2020
    Post IPO Equity • $1.2B
  • Apr 2020
    Post IPO Debt • $2B

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$11.6M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
42.2%
Referral
21.4%
Social
1.9%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21.7K

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