AD OPERATIONS MANAGER

We Realise Potential in Your Story

Based in the heart of Shoreditch, we are an award winning digital content studio and media network who are currently on a quest to find an Ad Operations Manager to join our Ad Sales & Paid Media team. Is this your next opportunity?

As Digital Ad Operations Manager, you will own the end-to-end trafficking and delivery of YouTube campaigns via Google Ad Manager, bringing your technical know-how and the confidence to manage campaigns independently from setup through to reporting.

This is a lead technical role that also requires excellent stakeholder management skills. You will have the opportunity to build our Ad Operational capabilities, deliver results for top-tier clients, and build and manage a small technical team.

PERKS OF THE JOB

We are proud to be an award winning workspace with employee wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We offer hybrid and flexi-time working, mental health and wellbeing programmes, enhanced gender neutral parental leave, interest free financial support and a digital nomad policy that allows you to work from abroad in two one week blocks a year. Plus all the usuals such as pension contributions, annual leave and office perks like free lunches, socials, and health treatments!

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME 

• Own the end-to-end trafficking and delivery of YouTube campaigns via Google Ad Manager, bringing both technical know-how and the confidence to manage campaigns independently from setup through to reporting.

• Hold technical relationships with Little Dot’s top-tier clients across YouTube via Google Ad manager, ensuring their Little Dot’s ad sales experience is seamless to set up and outperforms our competitors on YouTube.

• Provide training and support to Graduate level new starters; exposing them to all areas of their role in a contained environment which allows them to learn whilst safeguarding the business & our clients.

• Provide the UK Sales Team & vertical teams with technical expertise and collateral to assist in providing the best client-first service with a particular focus on upselling existing partnerships.

• Lead in the training of newer members of the YouTube Ad Operations team. Acting as a point of contact for troubleshooting in the first instance.

• Proactively search to expand our capabilities within YouTube, reviewing and suggesting the best use of 3rd Party Ad Tech, processes and automation to ensure the best results for clients.

• Keep up to date with developments within the digital media landscape (LUMAscape), Ad Tech Vendors & Ad Distribution Partners. Maintaining relationships with key partners to ensure the best use of their offering for our clients.

• Creating efficiencies in Little Dot’s product offering, spotting gaps in our current practices and implementing solutions to save both time and money.

• Ownership of Communication between the Global Ad Sales teams and the YouTube Ad Operations Team.

• Stakeholder management, including the ability to work outside of the team to bring efficiencies to business processes, opening up new products and services within the Ad Operations proposition.

• Maintaining the monthly channel integration into Little Dot’s network, ensuring UK sales are aware of channels entering and exiting our network.

• Managing our roster of reseller relationships, ensuring partners working with us feel supported, making Little Dot a preferred partner, and maximising revenue.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED 
Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything. 

• Previous experience in a similar ad sales/digital advertising operations role 
• Demonstrable managerial capability in previous roles and can speak to multiple occasions where their business has benefited from their stewardship.

• Google Ad Manager expertise (inc. an understanding of VAST tag troubleshooting).

• A proven track record when it comes to problem-solving within the Digital Ad Operations Space, including finding creative solutions where ad inventory is limited.

• Collaborative work ethic to ensure process and procedure are adhered to across the team. Re-educating where necessary.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets Formulae.

• Great verbal & written communication skills, including specifically the ability to be completely transparent around issues, the ability to hold yourself accountable for mistakes to stakeholders.

• A strong attention to detail.

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT 🔥

We’re probably the biggest studio you didn’t know was fuelling your favourite content. We’ve been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realised). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

WE ARE COMMITTED

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace at Little Dot that reflects our diverse digital audiences and communities we work and live in. We are committed to ensuring every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and we strive to create an environment where differences are celebrated, and everyone has equal opportunity to thrive.

Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.