Ad Operations / Yield Associate (UK Shift - Remote)
Description
The Opportunity:
The Ziff Davis CNET Group's Ad Operations team is looking for a detail-oriented Ad Operations Associate to provide essential support. This role is crucial for maintaining the efficiency and accuracy of our ad campaign tracking and reporting processes. You will serve as the primary operational support, taking ownership of a variety of daily, time-intensive tasks that currently consume a significant amount of the team's time. By handling these operational duties, you will free up senior team members to focus on high-value, revenue-generating work and key accounts.
This position reports directly to the “ Sr Director of Operations” and works closely with “Ad Operations and Client Strategy”. This is a remote position, with a standard “ Working Hours Shift timing (EST/CST/ PST)” business schedule and no travel required.
Key Responsibilities
- Campaign and Data Tracking: Update and maintain daily campaign trackers.
- Data Reconciliation: Conduct daily breakdowns of First-Party (1P), Third-Party (3P), and Private Marketplace (PMP) data.
- Performance Monitoring: Track session and impression data, flagging any significant discrepancies or anomalies (too high/low) to the Ad Operations team for review.
- Line Item Management: Assist with line item mapping and end-of-month (EOM) closing processes, ensuring meticulous attention to detail.
- Process Improvement: Identify and offload tedious operational tasks to improve team efficiency.
Job Qualifications:
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
- Exceptional Attention to Detail: A proven ability to meticulously review data and processes to ensure accuracy.
- Strong Analytical Skills: The ability to work with numbers, identify trends, and make sense of data from various sources.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: Proactive in identifying data inconsistencies and capable of flagging potential issues to the appropriate team members.
- Reliability: Highly dependable with a strong sense of ownership over tasks and deadlines.
- Excellent Communication: Clear and concise in written and verbal communication with team members.
- Organizational Skills: The ability to manage multiple daily tasks and deadlines efficiently.
Education and/or Experience:
- Education: Bachelor's degree.
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in a data-heavy or operational support role is preferred. Previous experience in digital media, advertising, or ad operations is a plus.
- Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
- Power BI/ Tableau are preferred.
Who we are: CNET, a division of Ziff Davis, is the world's leading technology and consumer electronics media brand, with a mission to empower people with the knowledge they need to make smart buying decisions. It is a trusted global marketplace that connects technology buyers and sellers with the most actionable and precise intent data. We are uniquely positioned to offer tech brands unmatched visibility into accounts and buyers that are truly in-market, by leveraging our scale, quality and diversity of data. With unparalleled access to the world’s most influential technology buyers through a combination of first-party (Community, Tools, Editorial) and data, CNET Group is a leader in demand based, intelligent, omnichannel marketing.
About Ziff Davis:
Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) is a vertically focused digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, connectivity, health, cybersecurity, and martech. Today, Ziff Davis is focused on seven key verticals – Technology, Connectivity, Shopping, Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cybersecurity and Marketing Technology. Its brands include IGN, Mashable, RetailMeNot, PCMag, Humble Bundle, Spiceworks, Ookla (Speedtest), RootMetrics, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Moz, iContact and Vipre Security.
Ziff Davis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Ziff Davis, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has always been about fairness, equal opportunity, and belonging. DEI enables us to attract and retain the best talent, regardless of background or circumstances, while enabling our thousands of employees worldwide to thrive.