Paid Media Operations Manager; Contractor Irvine, CA or Remote

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Marketing

Paid Media Operations Manager (Contractor) | Irvine, CA or Remote (US)

R027723

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a Paid Media Operations Manager to temporarily support the Paid Media team in Irvine, CA. This temporary contractor will report to the Sr. Manager, PMO Growth Marketing, and enable high-impact, industry-leading digital campaigns by driving campaign operations during an upcoming period of increased campaign activity. Responsibilities have a strong emphasis on ensuring creative assets are delivered accurately, on time, and in accordance with established operational requirements.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, highly organized, and thrives in a cross-functional environment. If you have a passion for gaming and are looking to deepen your expertise in campaign operations within a fast-moving, collaborative team, we encourage you to apply!

NOTE:
This is an anticipated 12-month assignment. The candidate will ideally be based in Irvine.

This is a contingent worker position and will be staffed through Volt, a staffing and workforce management company.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for paid media creative operations across global paid marketing, brand, creative, and agency partners

• Successfully manage end-to-end creative operations for paid media campaigns, including intake, scoping, QA, and delivery of all asset deliverables (e.g., spec sheets, creative briefs, trackers, and final assets)

• Oversee copy development workflows from intake through approvals, localization handoff, and activation readiness

• Drive alignment across stakeholders on timelines, deliverables, and priorities across concurrent creative work streams

• Facilitate timely and actionable creative feedback cycles that drive stakeholder alignment, maintain quality standards, and ensure on-time execution

• Route all assets and copies through the required approval processes, including legal and ESRB

• Coordinate the timely delivery of approved assets to regional teams for localization

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and downstream impacts related to timeline or scope changes, and communicate mitigation plans

• Own and improve paid media operational workflows, implementing scalable solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and cross-functional collaboration

• Support optimization of tools and systems (e.g. trackers, asset repositories, project management systems) to improve operational visibility and rigor

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of recent paid media operations, campaign operations, or creative project management experience required

• Ability to become productive quickly and contribute effectively in a contract-based role with defined project timelines and deliverables

• Strong project management skills; able to manage complex workflows and drive deliverables across multiple stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset

• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-growth team environment

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong QA instincts

• Flexibility to support occasional evening or weekend work during peak campaign periods

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Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and Star Craft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.

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