Digital Ad Operations Manager Job New York New York USA,Marketing / Advertising / PR

Location: New York

Manage end-to-end campaign activation and execution across paid media channels.
Ensure campaigns are launched accurately, on schedule, and aligned with media plans, targeting requirements, and business objectives.
Lead the operational implementation of campaign targeting and DCO decision-tree strategies, ensuring creative variations, audience logic, and personalization frameworks are accurately deployed across ad serving and activation platforms.
Monitor campaign implementation, creative execution, and tracking integrity throughout the campaign lifecycle, proactively identifying and resolving operational risks.
Troubleshoot campaign, creative, tracking, and reporting issues while ensuring timely resolution and stakeholder communication.
Lead campaign kickoff discussions to identify creative testing opportunities, personalization strategies, audience segmentation approaches, and DCO activation plans.
Partner with Marketing, Media, Programmatic, Analytics, and Creative stakeholders to develop testing hypotheses, measurement plans, success criteria, and learning agendas aligned with business objectives.
Translate business goals into actionable testing frameworks, including creative, audience, offer, and messaging experiments designed to drive performance and learning.
Analyze creative performance data, A/B testing results, and DCO outcomes to identify trends, measure creative effectiveness, and generate actionable insights.
Evaluate creative, messaging, offer, audience, and personalization performance to develop optimization recommendations that improve campaign effectiveness and customer engagement.
Partner with Programmatic and Analytics teams to develop integrated performance narratives that combine media performance, creative insights, and business outcomes.
Present creative testing results, DCO learnings, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders, enabling data-informed creative and marketing decisions.
Champion a Test-and-Learn culture by sharing best practices, creative insights, and optimization opportunities across stakeholder groups.
Serve as the primary operational liaison between Marketing, Media, Programmatic, Ad Operations, Analytics, Creative Studio, and Line of Business (LOB) stakeholders.
Coordinate cross-functional campaign planning and activation to ensure requirements, timelines, and deliverables are achieved.
Maintain campaign documentation, QA standards, trafficking processes, and operational best practices.
Identify and implement process improvements that increase operational efficiency, scalability, and campaign quality.
Mentor team members through knowledge sharing, best-practice guidance, and collaborative problem-solving.
Influence stakeholders through expertise in campaign activation, creative optimization, testing strategy, data analysis, and DCO best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of related work experience OR advanced degree with 1 year of related work experience OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent.
4 + years of experience in Ad Operations, Campaign Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Operations, Media Operations, or a related field.
Experience managing end-to-end digital campaign activation across paid media channels.
Experience with ad serving platforms, campaign trafficking, QA, and creative implementation.
Experience developing and executing creative testing strategies and Test-and-Learn initiatives.
Experience analyzing campaign, creative, and testing data to develop actionable business recommendations.
Strong understanding of Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), audience segmentation, and personalization strategies.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Media, Programmatic,…