Associate Director Ad Operations

Job Description

Associate Director of Ad Operations

UK
Activision Blizzard Media is a rapidly growing business built to connect brands with our 350M + global player base across Activision, Blizzard and King.

We create premium, innovative advertising experiences for world- class casual mobile games like King's Candy Crush Saga. Looking ahead, we plan to launch advertising across the Activision Blizzard portfolio, including high- growth areas like eSports. This is an exciting time to join this growing business.

We are seeking a skilled Associate Director of Ad Operations that has a passion for digital advertising, data-driven platforms, and the gaming industry to join our global ad ops team.

Responsibilities:
• Managing a team of ad ops specialists working on both direct and indirect ad sales/monetization.
• Working on mediation optimization projects involving the use of internal and external ad provider platforms such as Google, Meta, IronSource, and Unity.
• Supporting the direct sales business through campaign management and troubleshooting in Google Ad Manager
• Providing expertise and testing capabilities for product testing regarding new features around the ad experience
• Working closely with the Account Management team to ensure proper processes and workflows regarding campaign management
• Collaboration with the Product team to consult on and implement demand-side optimization on the various mediation tools
• Manage campaign timelines and deliverables across internal and external teams
• Overseeing the operational onboarding of new titles
• Maintaining and optimizing processes to ensure defined levels of ad quality
• Being a subject matter expert, including but not limited to, documentation and presentations to various collaborators.
• Document best practices and seek out opportunities to improve existing processes.
• Conducts team reviews to ensure team effectiveness and excellence is a top priority.

Skills to create Thrills:
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in Ad Operations.
• Strong understanding of digital advertising
• Expert with leading ad servers, especially GAM, local and global advertising eco-system, and will have industry knowledge of data management platforms, programmatic systems, analytics and brand safety tools, video technologies, mobile specialisms (e.g. Apps), and native providers.
• Experience troubleshooting using Charles Proxy preferred.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects taking in data from multiple sources and following through on deliverables.
• Ability to communicate complex and technical issues to a variety of internal and external partners.
• Excellent interpersonal, and organizational skills and a strong teammate, with the ability to work cross-functionally with remote team members.
• The ideal candidate will be service oriented and willing to go the extra mile to ensure collaborators and partners are successful in ad monetization experiences.

Bonus Points:
• Candidates from mobile media publishers, game studios, mobile app development, ad network, and ad technology should apply.
• Knowledge of digital advertising regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and business impacts

About King

King is the game developer behind the world- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and set the standard. It's what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we're not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpeb2x-3-133-119-66-42 in your application.