Africa New Media operates news and media sites across the continent focused on subjects such as emerging music, celebrities, business, sports, women (lifestyle, beauty and more).

We are currently in ten countries and looking to fuel our expansion by hiring dynamic people who want to be trained on a global level and grow into key roles within our company.

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic team player with a strong commercial orientation and previous experience in the media or advertising industry.

The successful candidate will have an inquiring mind and strong analytical skills, and always be asking the question why. They will love technology and pairing data with performance and should be very comfortable spending time with reporting systems to find the optimal ways to see trends, detect issues and then be able to shift these results into an optimization plan and improved strategy.

The role is a key contributor in the revenue and traffic growth of the business and will have an accountability to fine-tune existing infrastructure, ramp up performance and oversee and manage the day to day results.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day ownership of key performance revenue platforms, optimizations and reporting including but not limited to Taboola, MSN, Opera and other content distribution and native advertising platforms.
• Provide weekly and monthly reporting for peers, wider content teams and management through statistics dashboards and create new ad hoc reports as required
• Analyze systems and reports to find trends or issues and address with technical or content teams accordingly
• Actively onboard, implement and manage new site integrations within the platforms
• Actively create, manage and report on Taboola paid traffic campaigns and use these campaigns to surface new opportunities within the business
• Work closely with product and tech teams to maintain, update or add new features into RSS feeds or widgets
• Aggressively learn, understand and feed back into the business each platforms individual limitations, restraints, advertising policies, content guidelines and opportunities to test additional products and features
• Support other performance revenue teams and initiatives as and when required

Requirements:

• 2-5 years experience in related field
• Highly organized with the ability to take initiative
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Energetic and enthusiastic team player
• Passionate about analytics and technology
• Love for media and an excellent understand of how today’s audiences consume and engage with content and advertising
• Highly adaptive to ever changing start up environments
• Ability to manage stress and work under pressure
• Ability to communicate effectively across different cultures, time zones and business levels

What we offer:

• Competitive remuneration with benefits
• Be part of high impact teams
• Opportunity to curve out your own career path as we are an expansion phase
• Work with amazing brands