Lead Digital Ad Ops Coordinator

About The Position

Major Goals and Objectives and Location Requirements: As a Lead Digital Ad Operations Coordinator, you will be part of the Digital Ad Operations group responsible for launching all D/Cipher digital campaigns. This role ensures creative meets site specifications, manages production with vendor partners, generates and traffics ad tags, and resolves campaign execution issues. You will communicate directly with internal sales representatives and clients and proactively make business decisions that impact successful campaign launches.

Hybrid 3x a week- (Stamford)

About The Team

The Team and/or Brand: D/Cipher is People Inc.’s in-house media platform and activation team, fueled by the rich user engagement data of People Inc., the nation’s largest publisher. D/Cipher helps advertisers make informed media buying decisions on and off People Inc. content. The Digital Ad Operations team is responsible for the execution, trafficking, and quality assurance of all digital advertising campaigns. The team works cross-functionally with sales teams, clients, creative agencies, and third-party vendors.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Marketing, or a related field (or equivalent relevant work experience).
• Experience: Minimum of 3+ years of digital advertising operations experience, including campaign trafficking, quality assurance, troubleshooting, and client-facing communication.
• Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications And Abilities:
  • Experience in digital advertising operations and campaign management.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor peers, onboard new team members, and share best practices across the team.
  • Strong strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and analytical skills.
  • Advanced QA and debugging skills (tags, assets, delivery).
  • Experience with third-party ad servers such as Innovid, Flashtalking and CM360.
  • Experience trafficking within DSPs such as The Trade Desk, Amazon, etc.
  • Basic to intermediate knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and pixel/tag implementation for campaign setup, attribution and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with programmatic ecosystems.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
  • Strong written, presentation, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Excel, Word, & PowerPoint.
  • Excellent time management and work ethic.
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
  • Self-starter who can adapt quickly.

Pay

Pay Range Hourly: Connecticut: $30.00 - $36.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance.