Manager, Ad Ops (Technology and Activation Group)

  • Full-time

Company Description

WHY YOU WANT TO WORK AT SPARK FOUNDRY

Let’s be honest – in this industry, sometimes we complicate things that should be simple. Here is the bottom line:  we want YOU to join us if you are truly passionate about guiding marketers on how to best connect their brands with people. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

At Spark Foundry, we have a unique approach and provide the support to help you do this. In fact, our approach is built on creating the space for ideas that lead to smart work, and Spark Foundry is built to celebrate and develop YOUR ideas.

Job Description

In Corporate Speak: Responsible for overseeing the flawless execution of campaign operational process

In TAAG Talk: Be a leader on the front lines of the digital advertising industry where technology is ever-changing

• Oversee global Tech Ops Associates (both Chicago and Mumbai) and support the media and creative teams to activate digital campaigns (display, video, social, mobile, and programmatic)
• Co-lead strategic conversations with client and media teams around technology integrations that can improve efficiency, range or quality of data, or support new media
• Support Associates in the basic aspects of the trafficking process, including connecting placements to creatives, setting up consistent configurations, and collecting clean data. Lead the more complex aspects of trafficking, including Floodlight tags, DMP integrations, network upgrades, and more
• Lead conversations with the media team on ways to work faster and smarter. Collaborate with fellow Tech Ops Managers on process to prevent errors, to ensure consistency, to create a bomb-proof QA checklist
• Collaborate with vendors on behalf of creative agencies when troubleshooting is required
• Become a Subject Matter Expert on any number of technologies; keep yourself and the team up to date on the ever-evolving media landscape through regular research and writing POVs
• You may work across multiple clients, in which case we want you to share the best practices of each with the rest of the group in order to improve our output and standardize our work
• Assist clients in technology tests such as verification partners, and mobile ad servers
• Be responsible for holding media teams and creative agencies to execution timelines

Qualifications

What you’re like:
• Polished and on point. Highly detail oriented, an excellent time manager, obsessed with accuracy, a strong critical thinker, and able to juggle multiple tasks/clients
• A patient and diligent troubleshooter, unwilling to let go of a problem until it is solved
• Good at building relationships – a creative problem solver, a customer service expert, a great team player
• A proven manager of individuals and leader of teams; able to adapt to the mood of the collective
• A good communicator – able to write clearly, speak professionally, and teach complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a way that helps the ideas stick
• Unafraid to speak up in meetings large and small – TAAG contributions to decision-making are important, and while you don’t have to be loud or boisterous, you do have to be willing to be vocal and active in all discussions.

What we expect to find in a Manager of Tech Ops:
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in digital media (agency or publisher side)
• Four years of college education preferred (technology, marketing, computer engineering, web development, mathematics, or any other geek-friendly focus will do)
• A passion and/or skill for training and development, as the role involves both doing your work and supporting others on the team in their pursuit of excellence
• Experience with digital platforms – if you can go deep on programmatic (DMPs, DSPs, Exchanges), the ins-and-outs of second- and third-party vendors, ad servers of all stripes (display, video, social, mobile), Tag Management Systems (GTM, Ensighten, Signal, etc.), and/or VVF vendors (viewability, verification, and fraud prevention), we will have a great conversation
• Exposure to and/or interest in online advertising bid and pricing models (CPA, CPM, CPC, CPI) a bonus
• While we’re listing technology, we’d love to see skills with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
• You should know your way around ad servers – DCM and Sizmek are both used here and we pride ourselves on being technology agnostic. Also don’t be shy about your expertise with floodlights, rich media, etc.
• Knowledge/experience with the Doubleclick Digital Marketing suite (DDM) and/or Google 360 suite helps
• Skills in QA’ing ad tags and conversion tags in a browser environment or tag diagnostic tool are pretty key
• The ability to rock the Microsoft Office suite, particularly PPT and XLS (it’s all about filtering and pivoting)
Got the goods? We’d love to hear from you. Click on the Apply Now button, and let’s get this party started.

Additional Information

WHO WE ARE

Throughout our rich history, we’ve taken pride in our ongoing legacy of and commitment to constant evolution. It’s in our DNA to evolve.

By melding the spirit of a startup and the soul of a powerhouse across our business, we aim to bring modern heat to brands – the kind of heat that arises at the intersection of startup and powerhouse; of data and content; of art and science; of old and new.

Energy and innovation fuels our startup spirit, while the unrivaled marketplace clout, exclusive partnerships, and global practice capabilities we have at our disposal as a full-service Publicis Media agency deliver our powerhouse soul for our clients.

We hope you’ll take a few moments to learn more about us, and to begin thinking about how we might put “the power of plus” to work for you (http://www.sparkfoundryww.com/).

Spark Foundry is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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