Media Operations & Ad Technology Manager

Media Operations & Ad Technology Manager (TEMP)

Contract Duration 6 Months

Pay rate up to $76.92/hr

Job Description

Our client is seeking a results-oriented manager in its Marketing/Media team.

As a member of the Marketing organization, the Operations Manager leads all aspects of Media Operations and Ad Technology to identify improvements, troubleshoot problems, address inefficiencies, leverage data, and build audiences.

You have the ability to drive innovative thinking to enable business growth and efficient conversions across our digital ecosystem.

Media Operations & Ad Technology Manager will have direct hands-on ownership of tools as well as work cross-functionally across Media, Creative, Product, and Technology.

The role requires a passion for results, a commitment to action, an attitude that anything is possible, and a relentless focus on the customer.

The right candidate will thrive in a highly entrepreneurial, fast-changing, and collaborative environment where people are driven, enthusiastic, collaborative, and not afraid to take risks.

Your mission (and ours) is unique and powerful: fill hearts, minds, and souls with premium audio content that enables learning and literate entertainment.

Job Duties and Functions:

General Ad Operations and Ad Technology (Adobe AAM, Target, Analytics, Doubleclick, DS3, Kochava, Branch I/O, etc.)

Primary lead for Adobe DTM ad tagging in Javascript for the U.S. marketplace (All digital) to track conversions, optimize campaigns, and boost return on investment

Understanding concepts of programmatic media, ad serving, ad serving platforms, ad trafficking process, attribution models based on impression, click, IDFA, ADID, etc., basic data security policies/strategies, privacy regulations (such as CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, and etc.), network sniffing tools like Charles proxy, and understanding of network payloads.

Understanding of advertising identity space technologies such as Google customer match, Ramp ID, Trade Desk UUID 2.0, and others, and device identifiers such as IDFA, IDFV, ADID, etc, and knowledge of Telecommunication and SKAd network integrations and reporting.

Manage MMP day-to-day operations such as partner configurations, postback setup, tracker creation and QA, traffic verification, data exports, etc.

Understanding of cookie-less advertising and cookie consent concepts

Understanding of user access management, SSO implementation, LDAP groups, access tokens, etc.

Media Operations & Ad Technology Manager manages audience creation/management, server-to-server and API connections such as CAPI, and offline events sharing.

Analyze and troubleshoot technical issues with ad placement trafficking, campaign delivery, 3rd party reporting discrepancies, site ad tags, and creative user flow testing

DMP tech setup, infrastructure, cross-device targeting/reporting, CDP

Management of Data Onboarders

Site troubleshooting

SQL, ETL, knowledge of data transfer via S3, and SFTP

Deep linking and DCO concepts

Develop and oversee quality assurance process to act as the main point of contact cross functionally / cross-agency to ensure website tags are correctly generating relevant traffic and recording conversions accurately within the overall plan

Manage relationships with external media vendors and other partners in the media ops and ad tech space (i.e. agency, attribution partners, etc)

Ability to understand and transform business requirements into actionable tech/product requirements for feature developments

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field of study

5+ years of experience in media, advertising, or marketing (within the mobile space is a bonus)

Experience implementing brand positioning into Marcomm and the customer experience

Experience managing a large budget and forecasting

Experience in working with external creative agencies and internal design teams

Strong analytical skills (spreadsheet mastery a must, database experience is a bonus)

Strong oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA or graduate degree

Have worked at a leading brand company or agency managing leading brands

Proactive and solutions-oriented

Entrepreneurial spirit/ability to try different things with minimal direction

Established a track record of creativity and innovation

Benefit:

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans

401k Retirement Fund

About the Company:

Our client is a company whose entrepreneurial spirit with a team of pioneers and inventors who are not afraid to disrupt the status quo and apply an innovative approach to everything they do-from revolutionizing an art form to enacting positive change in the cities and countries in which we operate. As the largest producer of audiobooks in the world, they are passionate about well-composed words that are artfully performed. The company's consistent focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned them many millions of habituated subscribers.

The company's People Principles celebrate who they are and where they have been, and guide the way they work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of their millions of customers. They reflect and apply to everyone who works with our clients. The entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked there for 20 years, and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.