Ad Operations Manager

adMarketplace is the largest global marketplace for Native Search advertising. For over 25 years, we’ve connected brands with consumers at the moment they express commercial intent beyond legacy search engines.
Today, our Native Search solutions are exclusively integrated across next-generation platforms where discovery happens, including web browsers, Buy Now Pay Later apps, and AI chat surfaces. Powered by vector search technology, our platform delivers relevant text and product ads that match consumers with the brands, products, and offers they’re actively seeking.
Our award-winning culture is grounded in the principles of Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness – our 5Cs. These values drive us to turn complexity into clarity and create measurable value for consumers, advertisers, and publishers alike.

As our team continues to grow in Europe, we’re looking for an additional Ad Operations Manager to support the successful execution, tracking, and measurement of our campaigns. You’ll work closely with account management, data, and product teams to ensure accurate performance reporting and scalable operational processes across our advertisers and publishers.

What You'll Do

As the Ad Ops, Manager, you will drive one of the company’s key investment areas, solidifying and expanding our measurement capabilities which enable us to optimize client media performance.

• Play an integral role within client onboarding, with primary responsibility of reviewing client media tracking configuration, addressing issues, and setting up client reporting.

• Lead efforts to arrive at accurate tracking and operational trafficking of adMarketplace media, and as needed, architect an alternative solution path in collaboration with clients, their partners, and internal team members.

• Guide setting up automated reporting, reviewing results for quality assurance. As needed, lead relevant troubleshooting efforts to address tracking and reporting issues.

• Provide troubleshooting support to clients via adMarketplace account teams when unexpected ad ops, tracking, and reporting issues may arise.

• Maintain knowledge on tracking and reporting best practices and ad tech data industry dynamics to offer clients and adMarketplace account teams.

• Maintain and create operational workflows and processes to improve ad ops, data management, and reporting efficiency.

• Support data analytics requests from client related to tracking and attribution of media campaigns
  

Who you are:

• Digital media analytics professional with client-facing experience at digital media agency, in-house team, digital media platform, or ad tech company.

• Ideally experience from a Search background with confidence with platforms to include but not limited to Skai, GA4, SA360, Adobe

• Possess a bias-to-action, “can-do” attitude, and willingness to proactively solve issues and see projects through to completion.

• Growth-oriented individual who is curious and hungry to learn more, can mentor and train more junior team members, and is willing to get their own hands dirty.

• Strong project management skills handling various workstreams across multiple accounts with the support of various internal cross-functional teams.
  

Qualifications and Skills:

• Must have authorization to live and work in the UK and be able to travel to the US without sponsorship

• 4+ years of experience in performance media (paid search, social), ad ops / trafficking, or other ad tech roles.

• Good experience and confidence with

  • Site Analytics platforms, e.g. Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, etc.

  • SEM platforms and tracking tools, e.g. SA360, SKAI, etc.

• Excellent media tracking, data, and reporting diagnostic and problem-solving; ability to identify root causes and draw up recommended solutions.

• Hands-on knowledge of SQL to pull data in support of data onboarding and ad hoc analyses

• Firm understanding of the ad tech landscape, and ability to set up and review digital media tracking via tagging, such as UTM parameters.

• Solutioneer-level knowledge of digital media tracking standards and technologies:

• Container tag solutions, such as Google Tag Manager, Bright Tag, Tealium, etc.

• Mobile platforms and tracking tools, e.g. Adjust, Appsflyer, Branch, Kochava, etc.

adMarketplace has been named as one of the best places to work in London and New York City by Built In and Crain’s- the latter of which have recognized us the past three years straight! AMP is currently experiencing triple digit growth, and it’s never been a better time to join our team!

We offer a robust continuing education program, management training, regular company-wide lunch and learns, and well-defined career paths to ensure all our employees have an opportunity to grow. 

At adMarketplace, we play to win, but we learn from our setbacks. Our commitment to a collaborative environment means no one succeeds alone, and no one fails alone either.   

We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and pension, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more. adMarketplace offers Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work/life balance. 

No Third Party Recruiters. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

*This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of adMarketplace in the New York office. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.