Saatchi & Saatchi

Manager, Advertising Operations

Saatchi & Saatchi$75K — $120K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in digital media (agency or publisher side)
  • Experience in training and developing team members
  • Proficient with various digital platforms, ad servers, and tag management systems
  • Expertise with Google CM360, Flashtalking, and Innovid
  • Knowledge of Google Marketing Platform and Mobile Measurement Platforms
  • Experience with Conversion API implementation
  • Skilled in QA'ing ad tags and conversion tags
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, especially PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Lead campaign execution and evolve processes with Associate Directors and Managers to achieve operational excellence.
  • Oversee activation of digital campaigns across diverse channels for accuracy and efficiency.
  • Drive strategic discussions with clients on technology integration to enhance campaign performance.
  • Manage the trafficking process, ensuring accuracy in complex setups and implementations.
  • Establish effective methods to improve workflows and operational efficiency in campaign execution.
  • Collaborate with Ad Tech leadership to design standardized processes and QA frameworks.
  • Serve as the go-to contact for technical troubleshooting, collaborating with various teams to resolve issues.
  • Mentor and manage Analysts to improve team capabilities and output quality.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability insurance
  • 401K retirement plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

Ad Operations continues to thrive due to our expertise in trafficking digital ad campaigns, combating Ad fraud, and connecting various platforms. We're an individual who has a passion for technology, possesses a curious mindset, can work collaboratively and independently, and prefers a proactive approach over a reactive one.

The Manager, Adverting Operations is integral to the team, overseeing the technical implementation of digital campaigns, including ad trafficking and tagging. They also play a key role in designing, developing, and executing campaign operational processes in collaboration with both internal and external contacts to ensure that digital media plans meet expectations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead campaign execution and oversee process evolution in partnership with Associate Directors and Managers, ensuring operational excellence and scalable workflows.


  • Oversee activation of digital campaigns across display, video, social, mobile, gaming, and programmatic channels, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with media strategy.


  • Lead strategic conversations with clients and media teams around technology integrations, finding opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance data quality, and enable advanced capabilities.


  • Oversee the trafficking process across the team, ensuring accuracy and consistency in campaign setup, including ownership of complex implementations such as Floodlight tags, DMP integrations, network configurations, and advanced tracking solutions.


  • Drive operational excellence by establishing effective methods, improving workflows, and proactively finding opportunities to increase efficiency, scalability, and quality across campaign execution.


  • Partner with Ad Tech leadership to design and implement standardized processes, QA frameworks, and governance to minimize errors and ensure consistent execution across accounts.


  • Serve as the primary point of contact for troubleshooting technical issues, collaborating directly with media teams, creative agencies, platform partners, and vendors to resolve customer concerns efficiently.


  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert and inspiring leader across ad technology platforms, providing mentorship to internal teams and contributing POVs on new technologies, industry trends, and platform capabilities.


  • Manage and mentor Analyst and Senior Analysts, providing coaching, technical guidance, and professional development to strengthen team capabilities and ensure high-quality output.


  • Coordinate work across multiple clients, ensuring consistent execution, sharing guidelines across teams, and driving standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.


Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in digital media (agency or publisher side)


  • Experience with 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 -knows the ins-and-outs of second-and third-party vendors, ad servers of all stripes (display, video, social, mobile), Tag Management Systems (GTM, Adobe, Signal, etc.), and/or VVF vendors (viewability, verification, and fraud prevention)


  • Our clients are primarily Google CM360, Flashtalking, and Innovid users, so please tell us about your ad server experience especially in self-service capacity. Also don't be shy about your expertise with floodlights, rich media, etc.


  • Knowledge/experience with Google Marketing Platform and Mobile Measurement Platforms like Branch, Appsflyer, Firebase, and Kochava


  • Experience with Conversion API implementation across different social platforms


  • Skills in QA'ing ad tags and conversion tags in a browser environment or tag diagnostic tool are key


  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, particularly PowerPoint and Excel


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 $75,050.00 - USD $120,159.00/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 9/14/2026.

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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