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Job Title: Digital Ad Operations Specialist

Location: Santa Clara CA (Onsite)

Duration: 6 months contract (until 02/12/2027)

As a Ad Operations Specialist, you will be essential to scaling customer acquisition efforts by ensuring the flawless and efficient launch of high-impact paid campaigns. This role involves owning the execution and optimization of digital media campaigns in our adserver and paid media platforms. Responsibilities include campaign setup, budget management, optimization to campaign KPIs, audience targeting integration and reporting. You will act as a proactive self-starter, managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment to facilitate business growth.

Qualifications & Technical Expertise

A successful candidate will have:

• Expert-level proficiency and hands-on experience with Google Campaign Manager 360 (CM360)
• Deep expertise in DSPs like Display & Video 360 (DV360), The Trade Desk (TTD) and major social platforms including Meta (Facebook/Instagram), LinkedIn, and Reddit.
• 3-6 years of dedicated experience in Ad Operations, Digital Media Operations, or Ad Technology roles.
• Comfort with HTML, JavaScript, rich media formats, VAST/VPAID for video, and current cookie/privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
• Exceptional candidates will have experience with LiveRamp, Bomobra, Demandbase and other ABM or Audience focused vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Campaign Execution & Traffic Management
• Meticulously build and launch campaigns, ad sets, and individual ads across key channels.
• Manage the technical pipeline of performance marketing initiatives, contributing directly to the growth of a sophisticated e-commerce business. • Oversee audience targeting integration, manage audience match rates across platforms (TTD, Meta, Google/YouTube), and curate segments using tools like LiveRamp.
• Technical Quality Assurance (QA) & Troubleshooting
• Lead the technical QA process for all ad creative—including static, rich media, video, and third-party tags—to ensure they meet standards and fire correctly across web, mobile, and app platforms.
• Systematically investigate and reconcile data discrepancies between the Google Ad Server, DSPs, and publisher reporting systems.
• Be able to resolve complex ad-serving, tracking, and reporting issues with internal teams and external partners.
• Performance Optimization & Reporting
• Monitor and optimize campaigns to ensure they run without issue, managing budget pacing to avoid under/over spend, and hit campaign KPIs successfully.
• Utilize Excel/Google Sheets for data manipulation and deliver standardized or custom reports from the Google Ad Server to provide performance insights.
• Work closely with Campaign Strategists to create media plans based on historical performance data.
• Document and implement scalable best practices for campaign trafficking and naming conventions to reduce human error.

Professional Attributes

• Exceptional level of organization and meticulous attention to detail for error-free trafficking.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal skills for managing diverse stakeholder groups and fostering internal and external relationships.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.