We’re looking for an OTT ad tech pro with a knack for product management.
Ad Operations
Comfortably dive in at any part of the campaign management process for OTT/CTV and YouTube cross-sell deals. Main responsibilities will be to:
- Provide day-to-day ad ops support for Sales, including advising on media plans
- Communicate confidently and professionally with external agencies/vendors
- Traffic digital ad campaigns for OTT/CTV and YouTube
- Proactively monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot campaigns when needed
- Analyze reporting and glean insights from multiple data sources
- Keep up-to-date with industry best practices
Monetization Tech
With guidance from the Head of Rev Ops, you’ll flex your industry chops across these behind-the-scenes tasks:
- Maintain relationships with multiple SSPs
- Keep track of contractual details related to monetization (rev shares, etc.)
- Build documentation for internal reference
- Reconcile blended delivery data with internal Analytics team
- Work closely with the internal Content team, CDNs, and SSAI vendors to understand and monitor video distribution ops and scheduling, including content partner requirements
- Assist in implementation of advanced OTT ad products
Product Management
You’ll use your accumulated ad tech skills, innate tech savviness, and solution-finding drive to help manage our O&O CTV apps. We’ll look to you to:
- Get acquainted with the developer and admin dashboards for the major platforms (Roku, Amazon for FireTV, etc.).
- QA dev or beta versions of apps (know how to do this or know that you can learn)
- Work with external app publishing vendor to manage stakeholders’ expectations:
- Scope feature requests, troubleshoot, and communicate timelines for launches and updates
- Streamline content publishing + monetization per platform
- Ensure the content ops workflow is connected with monetization tech: SSAI integrations, commercial break pattern disparities, etc., and/or identify the requirements for successful implementation
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis across CTV landscape, as needed
- Support Performance Marketing team to develop promotional materials & media plans for the apps
- Manage stakeholders’ expectations and express needs through efficient communication within the WhistleTV team
Requirements:
- 6 to 8 yrs in digital media, ad-ops and media planning experience required
- Advanced knowledge of at least one ad server (GAM360, Springserve, Freewheel etc)
- OTT/CTV-specific Programmatic landscape, buy or sell-side (SpotX, Magnite, TripleLift etc)
- QA-ing across CTV and apps (Roku, FireTV, AndroidTV, smart TV products like SamsungTV+)
- Familiarity with digital-linear channel distribution, and/or MVPDs, vMVPDs
- Tracking tech (e.g. Nielsen, DoubleVerify, Moat, IAS)
- Audience measurement and targeting tech with 1st and 3rd-party DMPs
- Troubleshooting via proxy (e.g. Charles)
- Extremely analytical with demonstrated ability to use data to problem-solve and optimize outcomes
- Familiar with direct media buying and attribution tools such as Facebook Ads Manager, Google Ad Words, and programmatic platforms
- Fluent in various analytics tools, including Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and other similar viewership platforms