Manager, Ad Product Operations

Job Description

Hearst Magazines Ad Product & Data

Hearst Magazines is seeking a manager, ad product operations with a background in the advertising industry, with the focus on targeting solutions for digital advertising products. The advertising business at Hearst Magazines must meet the needs of a wide array of clients, while contributing to a premium product experience.

This manager will join us at an exciting time. You will be responsible for running product operations to innovate and build the next targeting products that drive reader relevance and advertiser performance. You will be responsible for launching our targeting products, ensuring cross-team collaboration, and keeping roadmaps and timelines up to date.

Resonsibilities:

Key Responsibilities
• Develops and leads advertising product operations process that improve efficiency and drive key results
• Creates new processes for ad product operations and improves existing processes to match changing objectives and key results
• Works closely with executive product owners to understand process challenges and inefficiencies and communicates changes across the product organization
• Partners with Design, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to capture a full picture of the goings-on across Hearst Magazines advertising
• Develops dashboards for product teams tied to advertising-wide goals
• Streamlines tasks and processes, and continually validates and improves them to ensure delivery and achievement of team key results
• Builds out a standard communication process for key team members and ensures documentation is updated and accurate
• Identifies a process to make feedback available for product teams and incorporates it into product development
• Works closely with program/project managers to communicate product updates internally and externally
• Stakeholder communication
• Quarterly program recaps
• End of year visual recaps
• Operational support for engineering and product, such as overseeing new slack workflows or reporting bugs
• Assist with documentation as needed
• Work with product owners on product briefs and discovery briefs
• Intake process - including managing responses to our stakeholders when new items are submitted, documenting statuses, setting up meetings as needed

Qualifications:

Qualifications
• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience defining and implementing process improvement initiatives
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
* We are open to fully remote work for this position, and you can be based out of any of the 18 states in which Hearst Magazines does business: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, TN, TX, VA. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

The base salary for this role is between $xxx,000 and $xxx,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7yo9q-52-14-240-178-42 in your application.