Coordinator, Digital Ad Operations

Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded media and technology company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, unique experiences, and product solutions. Blavity Inc. has evolved into a market leader for Black media, reaching 250 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity, Blavity360º, AfroTech, Talent Infusion, 21Ninety, Travel Noire, Home & Texture, and Blavity House Party. Our Blavity, Inc. employee community is composed of passionate, energetic, and culturally conscious individuals working together to deliver value to each other, the company, and our clients. We are always searching for new additions to our community that will help us continue to scale, contribute meaningfully to our culture, and advance our strategic direction.
Job Summary: 
Blavity’s Ad Operations team is seeking a driven, dynamic, and results-oriented individual with interest in advertising, project management, and data analytics to join our team as a Coordinator, Digital Ad Operations (Contractor). This entry-level position will work closely with the Blavity Sales and Customer Service teams. This individual will be expected to learn quickly and handle a number of simultaneous Ad Operations tasks, while maintaining a detail-oriented approach. 
This role will report directly to the Manager, Ad Operations.
Contracted workers will be responsible for providing their own equipment, including but not limited to: laptop computers, cell phones, and any other electronic equipment required to perform their role.
Responsibilities

• Generate weekly campaign reporting and make recommendations for optimizations
• Provide reports to Client Services and Sales teams
• Generate impressions and revenue reporting
• Review campaign assets (Creatives, IOs, and tags) proactively, identify potential errors, and troubleshoot as necessary
• Generate website traffic through newsletters
• Set up and troubleshoot programmatic campaigns (PG, PMP, and Preferred Deals)
• Work closely with Client Services, Ad Operations, and Sales teams to ensure direct and programmatic campaigns start on time
• Participate in internal team discussions and manage internal task assignments that help grow the team and enhance workflow processes

Qualifications 

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Required Experience: 
  • 1-2 years experience in Publisher Advertising Operations 
  • 1-2 years experience using Google Suite to generate traffic, troubleshoot, manage, and optimize campaigns
• Preferred Experience:
  • A strong track-record of supporting Sales teams operationally, as well as successfully aiding remote teams across multiple time zones.
  • An understanding of rich media and standard advertising formats including setup and implementation
• Technologies: 
  • Fluent in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Google Ad Manager, Staq, SSP dashboard
  • Advanced level data and spreadsheet skills
• Additional Qualifications:
  • Independent, entrepreneurial self-starter who is comfortable taking on a high level of responsibility
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a proven love for transforming unorganized/complex data into rigorously structured, insight-oriented solutions
  • High-energy, company first, positive attitude: must be motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication and analytical skills; outgoing and sociable; willing to wear multiple hats 
  • Naturally detail oriented, with an obsessive need to document and communicate findings
  • A healthy appreciation of GIFs and black culture

Details: 

• This is a fully Remote (W2) contract position, requiring an average of 25 hours per week.
• Candidates must be U.S.-based and authorized to work in the U.S.
• Candidates must be available to work 100% in alignment with the Pacific Time Zone. 
• The hourly rate for this role is $25.

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter online at BlavityInc.com/Careers.

Blavity is committed to creating a diverse environment free of discrimination and harassment, and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  

Blavity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, HIV Status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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The Coordinator, Digital Ad Operations will ensure that all direct campaigns go live on time and deliver in full.

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