Senior Campaign Manager

In this role, you can expect to

• Own the end-to-end post-sale lifecycle for direct-sold and programmatic campaigns across display and video.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for campaign execution, providing guidance to junior team members and supporting complex or high-value campaigns.
• Act as the primary post-sale point of contact for clients, agencies and internal teams to collect assets, share requirements, manage expectations, and align on timelines.
• Manage campaign booking details, reconciliations, and billing in the order management system.
• Traffic campaigns in Google Ad Manager (or equivalent ad server), ensuring accurate setup of line items, targeting, and creatives across 1st and 3rd party assets.
• Conduct thorough QA prior to launch and proactively troubleshoot technical, trafficking, and reporting issues.
• Monitor pacing and performance, making optimizations to ensure campaigns deliver in full and meet KPIs.
• Provide regular campaign reporting and performance updates, including end-of-campaign recaps with insights and recommendations.
• Translate campaign performance data into strategic insights that inform pricing, packaging, and product development decisions.
• Maintain documentation, best practices, and trafficking guidelines to support operational consistency and efficiency.
• Stay informed on industry changes impacting ad delivery, measurement, privacy, and creative formats.
 

To Thrive in this role, you have

• 4+ years of experience in digital advertising, with strong hands-on experience in publisher-side ad operations or campaign management across direct, PG, and PMP.
• Deep working knowledge of Google Ad Manager (or similar platforms), third-party ad servers, trafficking workflows, campaign troubleshooting, ad verification, and ad tech structure.
• Strong understanding of digital ad formats, targeting methodologies, monetization, forecasting, and performance KPIs.
• Experience managing client communication in a post-sale capacity with strong relationship building skills.
• Clear and confident communicator, capable of translating technical concepts into client-friendly language.
• Highly detail-oriented, process-driven, with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort interpreting campaign and ad performance data.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Engineering.
• A passion for delivering exceptional service while maintaining operational rigor.
• Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and pixel implementation as it relates to ad serving and troubleshooting.
• Experience with rich media and VAST creative types.
• Proficiency with project management platforms, Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel), Google Workspace.
 

How You Play

• Ownership over Participation – You take responsibility for achieving holistic outcomes, prioritize key objectives, and adapt quickly when situations require a different approach. You follow through even against the toughest challenges.
• Team over Stars – You are a bridge builder, establishing processes and relationships with teams outside your own. You work to rally around common goals, find win-win solutions, compromise when necessary, and help others succeed.
• Growth over Comfort – You are driven by a desire to grow and actively seek opportunities to expand your comfort zone, skills, and confidence. You embrace new challenges with curiosity, accepting discomfort and failure as opportunities to learn.
• Fairness over Popularity – You approach decisions with a scientist’s mindset, challenging your assumptions and remaining objective. You consider long-term impact rather than relying on short-term gains, proactively seek others’ perspectives, and manage emotions in decision-making.