Senior Manager, Commerce & Retail Media - Temp

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$34/hr – $40/hrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 20 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve the operational strategy for onsite and in-store retail media, driving scalable processes and governance across cross-functional teams while partnering with Product, Engineering, and client services to prioritize improvements and adoption.

  • Lead process optimization and automation initiatives
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and services to ensure platform usability and operational transparency

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the operational strategy and continuous improvement roadmap for onsite and at-store retail media workflows across managed-service and self-service products.
  • Evaluate existing operational processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and scale ways of working across cross-functional teams.
  • Partner with our clients’ Product and Engineering to prioritize operational enhancements, improve platform usability, and influence future product capabilities based on operational needs.
  • Develop and maintain standardized operating procedures, governance models, documentation, and workflow playbooks that improve consistency across the organization.
  • Build scalable operational frameworks that support growth while maintaining quality, efficiency, and service excellence.
  • Collaborate with Client Services, Media Operations, Analytics, Finance, and Product teams to improve cross-functional alignment and operational transparency.
  • Establish quality assurance standards, operational controls, and success metrics that support new product launches and ongoing platform enhancements.
  • Analyze operational performance data, identify trends, and recommend improvements that reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and enhance team productivity.
  • Drive process optimization initiatives through automation, AI-enabled workflows, and operational tooling.
  • Lead change management efforts for new processes, technologies, and platform capabilities, including documentation, training, and adoption planning.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in media operations, retail media, advertising operations, program management, product operations, or operational excellence.
  • Experience designing or improving operational workflows within digital advertising, retail media, eCommerce, SaaS, or technology organizations.
  • Demonstrated success leading process improvement, workflow optimization, or operational transformation initiatives.
  • Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams to improve platforms, systems, or user workflows.
  • Familiarity with onsite and at-store retail media ecosystems, ad serving technologies, order management systems, campaign management platforms, or advertising operations.
  • Strong understanding of operational governance, documentation, process mapping, and change management.
  • Experience supporting self-service advertising products or platform operations is strongly preferred.
  • Strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills with experience managing multiple cross-functional initiatives.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence teams across all levels of the organization.
  • Retail media network, digital advertising, or eCommerce experience strongly preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting self-service advertising products or platform operations is strongly preferred.
  • Retail media network, digital advertising, or eCommerce experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience implementing automation, AI-enabled workflows, or operational tooling is a plus.

Benefits

  • Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy, as well as safe and sick time.
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