Advertising Operations Associate

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Arlington, VA, USA
In-Office
50K-50K Annually
Entry level
Digital Media • Events • Mobile • News + Entertainment
The Role
Supports digital and print advertising campaign activation, fulfillment, QA, troubleshooting, launch, monitoring, optimization, and performance analysis. Maintains campaign pacing, runsheets, inventory forecasts, benchmarks, and insights using data and visualization tools. Collaborates with Media Business and Design teams, and assists with ad technology platform evaluation, implementation, and administration.
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Job Description:

POLITICO’s mission from the very beginning was to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing accurate, non-partisan, impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed.


POLITICO is in search of an Advertising Operations Specialist who will work closely with the Media Business team to ensure successful activation and fulfillment of advertising campaigns. The ideal candidate will be agile and work well in a fast-paced environment. 


Who You Are:

  • A detail-driven problem solver who thrives in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environments.
  • A collaborative communicator with a knack for translating data into actionable insights.
  • A tech-savvy professional fluent in ad operations tools, creative platforms, and web languages.
  • A dependable team player who takes initiative and embraces leadership opportunities.
  • A strategic thinker who values integrity, innovation, and contributing to a mission-driven culture.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work closely with Media Business to ensure successful activation and fulfillment of advertising campaigns
  • QA advertising assets and troubleshoot any technical and performance issues
  • Launch, monitor and optimize digital campaigns using the ad server
  • Analyze performance of advertising campaigns and products
  • Contribute to product performance benchmarks and insights using multiple data sources and visualization tools
  • Maintain runsheets, campaign pacing and inventory forecasting reports
  • Liaise with Design team to insure placement of print advertising
  • Assist with evaluation, implementation and administration of ad tech platforms

What You’ll Need:

  • 0-1 years of experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to be dependable when working on a team
  • Experience analyzing data to extract meaningful, actionable insights
  • Experience using Google’s advertising platforms or comparable ad serving platforms
  • Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Excel
  • Familiarity with web languages (HTML, Javascript, etc.)
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
  • Ready to take on leadership opportunities and become Subject Matter Experts in our platforms

COMPENSATION: $50,000 Annual Base. This position is eligible for commission. The final salary offered will be based on factors including relevant experience, skills, and qualifications.


We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO. 


Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here and email us [email protected]. We hope to see your application soon! 


About Us. 

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital. 


Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes. 


Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist. 


Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself. 


These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization. 


POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as  The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer. 

Posting date:

2026-10-19

Title:

Advertising Operations Associate

Skills Required

  • 0-1 years of experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work dependably on a team
  • Experience analyzing data to extract meaningful, actionable insights
  • Experience using Google's advertising platforms or comparable ad serving platforms
  • Experience using Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Excel
  • Familiarity with web languages such as HTML and JavaScript
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Willingness to take on leadership opportunities and become a subject matter expert in advertising platforms

POLITICO Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about POLITICO and has not been reviewed or approved by POLITICO.

  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is set at 24 weeks fully paid for all family expansions in the U.S., codified for newsroom roles in the PEN Guild contract. This is highlighted as unusually generous in the U.S. media context.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO and flexible time off, with paid sick days and holidays, are offered. A remote work program is available in some roles.
  • Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, vision and mental-health/EAP support alongside disability and life insurance. Benefit listings indicate a comprehensive lineup across key health areas.

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The Company
HQ: Arlington, VA
1,050 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

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