Online Ad Operations Manager

Job Title:   Online Ad Operations Manager 

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a group of Online Advertising Operations Coordinators.
• Facilitate and maintain relationship with OAS RealMedia and any future ad serving systems and services.
• Build an ad operations/traffic management team as growth dictates
• Implement interactive advertising campaigns using OAS RealMedia 24/7 ad management platform, including complex 3rd party rich media.
• Create, test and implement OAS RealMedia tags across new placements; including tracking and targeting specifications.
• Manage OAS RealMedia’s advertising management platform to ensure campaign delivery, performance and advertiser goals are being fulfilled as scheduled.
• Requesting, receiving, testing, posting, and confirming all materials from outside vendors and internal departments
• Field related questions from clients/agencies/internal and assist in resolving problems and troubleshooting errors.
• When necessary work closely with sales force to understand client needs
• Advise management on ad serving solutions, highlight operational issues and set guidelines for ad operations process
• When necessary be able to update inventory reports and communicate availability to sales departments.
• Responsible for developing methods to enhance departmental and inter-departmental best practices and procedures.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 3 year ad trafficking experience
• Working knowledge of Flash, Rich Media, Video Encoding, HTML, DHTML, Javascript
• Mobile ad serving experience a plus
• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills and abilities
• 2-4 years experience in ad operations management working with online ad sales, preferably with a top Internet destination site, ad network provider or advertising agency
• Dependable, motivated and flexible self-starter; adaptive to change and tight deadlines
• Experience with trafficking video advertising
• Strong knowledge of ad servers from both publisher-side (24/7 Realmedia, aka OAS), and advertiser-side (DFA, Atlas, Eye-Blaster, PointRoll etc.)
• Comprehensive understanding of campaign success metrics: CPM, CPC, conversions
• BA/BS degree required
• Strong leadership, communication and organizational skills
• Able to understand the business process and work in a team environment
• A willingness to increase scope of responsibility quickly

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