Sr. Ad Ops Specialist

Job Description:

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Role

The Sr.Ad Ops Specialist is a key member of the Strategic Planning & Delivery team, responsible for managing campaign delivery and identifying improvements (process, training and system development) that impact our ability to
recognize revenue from sold campaigns (including display, video, mobile and native ad types). This person will manage a global team of traffickers, ensuring excellent and timely delivery of campaigns.

You Will:
● Ensure clients and partners, as well as internal sales teams, are receiving
first-class customer support
● Work ensure maximum booked revenue is recognized while campaign
objectives are consistently exceeded
● Lead, motivate and encourage a dedicated global ad ops team under
tremendous time pressures
● Work in collaboration with all other Strategic Planning & Delivery teams to
outline requirements, ad specs and QA new ad products as needed; work with
various internal teams to launch new advertising products
● Have full knowledge of all ad products available on the site and offsite (AMP,
FBIA, Apple News, etc) including specs, site functionality, general availability
and performance of ad units
● Proactively present new features and functionality to management in order to
keep pace with industry trends and business objectives
● Proactively troubleshoot delivery and technical issues to ensure revenue
recognition. Field and coordinate resolution of issues and escalations.
● Ensure quality assurance, review, test and schedule campaigns in one or
several third-party ad server platforms as needed
● Communicate technical issues (both verbal and written) in a manner that is
easy for a non-technical audience to understand
● Offer full support for escalated issues where customer needs the comfort of
knowing they have individuals who can assist them on a more personal level
● Provide training (troubleshooting delivery issues, inventory management,
understanding delivery priorities, optimization of campaigns, ad products, etc.)
to Sales and Sales Operations as needed
● Additional ad hoc projects as requested

You Have:
● Minimum 5 years experience working within Ad Operations
● Ad serving/ad technology experience, including but not limited to DFP,
SSPs/DSPs, Nativo, AdJuster, Operative.One, etc

● Ability to work successfully with teams, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
● Strong customer focus – promoting customer satisfaction, resolution and
loyalty
● Willing and able to collaborate across boundaries to get work done and drive
business forward
● Robust analytical abilities and quantitative skills
● Exceptional relationship management, communication and process design
skills
● Extensive working knowledge of advertising sales and operations workflow and infrastructure
● Strong knowledge of advertising campaign metrics and research technologies
● Strong experience working in Excel and Internet technologies required
● Knowledge of HTML, Flash and JavaScript
● Comfort and experience with a fast paced technology environment

Our Benefits:

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Media Sales

Job Category:

Media

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $85,000 - $105,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..