Saatchi & Saatchi

Associate Director, TAAG

Saatchi & Saatchi$112K — $179K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.A. or B.S. in Marketing, Advertising or a related field.
  • 5+ years experience with trafficking systems and data reporting tools (e.g., Google CM, DFP, Adobe Analytics).
  • Proficient in MS Excel, including advanced formulas and tables for reporting purposes.
  • Strong command of Google CM Floodlight implementation QA and troubleshooting.
  • A keen attention to detail to prevent data anomalies before client report delivery.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to liaise with various digital competency levels.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic campaign setup guidance, including tagging and naming conventions.
  • Act as the escalation point for internal technology queries and issues.
  • Identify efficiencies through data structure to enhance communication and analytics insights.
  • Manage offshore teams to ensure optimal service delivery in technology activation.
  • Establish processes and training to facilitate accurate operational execution.
  • Collaborate with analytics teams for streamlined data management and reporting solutions.
  • Engage proactively with partners to implement ad operations enhancements based on client needs.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability and 401K plans for financial security.
  • Parental leave and family formation assistance.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continuous learning opportunities.
  • Flexible time off to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking for someone who can come in and immediately make an impact. This will be both in terms of applying industry knowledge (and sharing this with the team) to manage key tagging, trafficking, data, measurement, and partner relationships in order to drive campaign efficiency and develop leading technical expertise. You will be confident with clients and clear in delivering our agency point of view and recommendations

The successful candidate will have a fully rounded knowledge of digital ad serving, measurement, and associated technology and partners. In addition, the candidate must have data analysis experience, Ad Servers and Tag Management Tools. This role will manage the end-to-end Operations -> Optimization process, including but not limited to:

Responsibilities

  • Provide guidance on campaign set up (naming, tagging, etc.)
  • Escalation Point for any internal Technology questions/ issues/POV
  • Discover efficiencies through data structure to create streamlined communication for planning and analytics insights
  • Manage offshore trafficking / Analyst teams of Technology Activation Specialists and ensure best-in-class service delivery
  • Establish/refine processes and training parameters to ensure flawless, on-time execution by operational teams
  • Organize and centralize, where possible, process and technologies working with other TAAG leads
  • Proactive partner management and industry outreach to improve and evolve ad operations solutions, based on clients' needs
  • In partnership with media and analytics counterparts work on developing and deploying data management, reporting solutions, meaningful documentation that captures the value created by new capability
  • Develop and enforce nomenclature to better manage data across the organization
  • Coordinate with analytics teams to ensure data (from varied sources) can be easily fed into tools and systems
  • Understand, identify and partner with data/technology solution providers to drive more effective and efficient reporting for teams/clients
  • Support and scale analytics dashboards, toolset and data management platforms across client teams
  • Oversee the deployment of digital technology solutions and partnerships, such as ad servers, data management tools, media planning/buying and billing systems, that deliver against client and organizational needs
  • Ensure teams are effectively and efficiently using current tools and systems through training and/or establishment and adherence to best practices
  • Audit and evaluate technology solutions being used, and identify opportunities to improve and/or create new tools and systems that will drive savings or generate new revenue
  • Partner with Digital Directors on the business to deliver best product and best thinking across, search, social, mobile, display and video to establish technology needs and requirements
  • Represent agency needs internally and within the marketplace to meet current and future needs of our agency and their clients - and identify where new value can be created for internal and external clients

Qualifications

  • B.A. or B.S. in Marketing, Advertising or related field
  • Agency experience highly preferred
  • 5+ years of experience working with trafficking systems, tagging tools and data mining / reporting functions in excel, or other similar tool. (CM, DCM, DFP, Flashtalking, Innovid, IAS Google Analytics, Adobe tools, TMS, VIQ)
  • Specifically, candidate must have a good command of MS Excel, including formulas and tables, as these are heavily utilized in the reporting process
  • Technology experience is important (must have experience with standard ad servers such as Google Campaign Manager, Prisma, IAS, etc.
  • Tagging experience is important
  • Must have experience in Google CM Floodlight implementation QA and troubleshooting, or other container and conversion tag systems such as Tealium
  • Candidate must have a strong attention to detail, and be able to quality check their work to ensure that data anomalies/mistakes are caught prior to delivery of the reports to the client teams
  • Candidate must have strong management capabilities, both operationally (to ensure that tasks such as reporting & trafficking are completed on time and accurately) as well as strategically (to ensure that guidance is given to all teams on how to enhance the product as the account matures)
  • Candidate must be outgoing and able to integrate with a fast-paced digital planning team
  • Must be able to cultivate excellent relationships with technology and research partners
  • Must have ability to learn new processes and technology quickly
  • Should be extremely detail-oriented
  • Interested in and experienced with technology
  • Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Hands on, problem solving abilities - "can do" approach (so someone who is a thinker and a doer)
  • Excellent communication skills - written and spoken
  • A people person with ability to communicate at all levels who will have various levels of digital knowledge

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $112,290.00 - USD $179,712.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/25/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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