Ad Ops Manager

About Acast

Since 2014, Acast has been building the world's most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. The marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts including Legend, Hugo Décrypte, À bientôt de te revoir and publishers such as Le Monde and Louie Media. We work with over 3,000 advertisers, and achieve one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, Acast monetise those listens wherever they happen - across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Ad Ops Manager who will be a part of a Global Team working primarily across our French and German markets. Reporting into the Senior Ad Ops Manager of EMEA, you will be responsible for delivering successful campaigns for our advertisers across both direct and programmatic buying routes. You will be based in Paris and the role will focus on excellence in campaign management. The Ad Operations Manager will work closely with our Sales, Content and Product teams to ensure the smooth execution of campaigns, podcaster support and troubleshooting from an operational perspective.

What you´ll do

Manage day-to-day ad operation functions for both direct advertisers and programmatic buyers

Inventory forecasting and sell-through rate management for sales representatives

Quality assurance and testing of audio campaign creatives

Conduct delivery and performance analysis, providing feedback and optimisations to Account Managers for both direct and programmatic buying routes

Provide comprehensive delivery reporting

Perform thorough quality assurance checks of insertion orders within CRM systems ahead of billing cycles

Troubleshooting issues, ensuring fast resolution alongside our Ad Tech teams or programmatic buyers with minimal campaign disruption

Contribute towards the maintenance of trafficking and workflow procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency

Assist with Ad Operations related projects in conjunction with product and development teams

Who you are

Minimum of 3 years experience working with Ad Servers and managing digital media campaigns. Knowledge of broadcast/podcasting would be beneficial

Demonstrated knowledge of Programmatic deal creation, execution and familiarity with DSP/SSP's

Organised, high attention to detail and comfortable working closely with data

Confident in presenting market updates to Sales leads

You are adaptable to learning new tools and processes

You are both independent and collaborative; you like working as part of a diverse team and liaising with multiple stakeholders

Motivated and enthusiastic team player with strong interpersonal skills

You have intermediate excel skills and you are comfortable with business intelligence tools

This role requires fluency in French and English language

Culture 

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We're global and have remote teams, so it's even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome. 

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause