PAID MEDIA OPERATIONS MANAGER
We’re on the look out for a Paid Media Operations Manager to lead technical ops for top clients across all major social platforms. Build capabilities, drive efficiency, & expand targeting strategy
PAID MEDIA OPERATIONS MANAGER
We Realise Potential in Your Story
Based in the heart of Shoreditch, we are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Paid Media Operations Manager to join our Ad Sales & Paid Media team - Is this your next opportunity?
This is a fantastic opportunity to be in a lead technical role and perfect for those who are great at stakeholder management. The role is suited to an experienced social media ad trafficker, as you will be responsible for building out our paid media capabilities and delivering results for our top-tier clients.
PERKS OF THE JOB
We are proud to be an award winning, B Corp™ Certified workplace 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
- Trafficking ad campaigns across all major social ad platforms, covering a range of goal types, ranging from awareness, consideration (engagement), to conversion.
- Delivering training to Graduate-level new starters or external ops resource; exposing them to all areas of the paid operations role in a contained environment, allowing them to learn whilst safeguarding the business & our clients.
- Holding technical relationships with our top-tier clients across YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and all other social platforms, ensuring their media experience is seamless and encourages repeat business.
- Providing our Media Planning Team with technical expertise and collateral to assist in providing the best client-first service with a particular focus on upselling existing partnerships.
- Proactively search to expand our agency capabilities across product, reporting and measurement.
- Keeping up to date with developments within the digital media landscape (LUMAscape), staying one step ahead of competitors by liaising with existing partners and forming new partnerships.
- Creating efficiencies in our product offering, spotting gaps in our current practices and implementing solutions to save both time and money.
- 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 Paid Media proposition.
- Expansion of Targeting Strategy, introduce new ways of trafficking our campaigns to increase ad relevancy, earned metrics & reducing cost per result.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.
- Demonstrable experience in a similar Paid Social / Digital Advertising Operations role
- Expertise as a social products and platform specialist; able to suggest product strategies for any possible client KPI.
- A proven track record when it comes to problem-solving within the Paid Media space, including finding creative solutions where creative/budgets are 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.
- A strong attention to detail - you should be able to demonstrate a near-flawless record on campaign delivery in the last 6 months.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - including transparency around issues and holding yourself accountable for mistakes to stakeholders.
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.
- Department
- Advertising Sales & Paid Media
- Locations
- Shoreditch, London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Job ID
- LDS44225
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 09 December, 2025
About Little Dot Studios
We are Little Dot Studios - a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network.
We work across every screen, partnering with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports, social impact and consumer brands. As leading YouTube and social media specialists, we handle everything from strategy, audience development, content production, monetisation, and digital copyright management.
We’re disruptive by nature and adaptive by design. We operate a multi-platform, multi-format production company who specialise in creating everything from original broadcast-quality film and TV and award-winning podcast series to short-form social content and live streams that perfectly tap into cultural moments. Whether we’re building communities, engaging superfans or driving performance - our aim is to realise the potential in every story.
We also run Little Dot Channels - our global digital media network made up of more than 135 channels across social platforms and seven FAST brands streaming on over 130 feeds. With more than 27,000 hours of premium content, we reach 125 million unique viewers every month and offer access to one of the largest brand-safe, premium advertising inventories across YouTube and CTV.
We’re proud to include WING, our specialist sports and branded content agency, and History Hit, Dan Snow’s podcast network and SVOD service, in the Little Dot group too.
To top it all off, we’re a certified B Corp, have been verified carbon neutral since inception, and are on track to be net-zero by 2030.
Founded in April 2013 and born for the digital entertainment era, we are made up of 500 digital experts across the UK, USA, Germany & APAC. We are part of the All3Media group.
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