Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC is hiring an Advertising Operations Specialist to manage the technical setup, trafficking, and administration of advertising campaigns across digital and print products. The role ensures accurate order entry, campaign delivery, billing, production coordination, and performance reporting.
Responsibilities
- System Input: Accurately enter campaign schedules into the Order Management System (OMS) (e.g., Adbase, GAM), ensuring flight dates, rates, and placements match signed agreements
- Inventory Reservation: Check and secure availability for high-impact print positions and digital placements to prevent overbooking
- Billing Integrity: Reconcile delivered impressions and print runs against the original order to ensure accurate monthly invoicing and revenue recognition
- Ad Server Management: Upload, target, and deploy digital creative assets using Google Ad Manager or similar platforms
- Print Coordination: Manage the print production queue, ensuring high-resolution files meet CMYK color and bleed specifications for physical publication
- Tagging & Tracking: Implement and test tracking pixels via Google Tag Manager to ensure third-party reporting accuracy
- Pre-Flight Checks: Verify that all creative assets (digital banners and print PDFs) meet technical specifications before launch
- Issue Resolution: Identify and fix delivery discrepancies, broken links, or file formatting errors in real time to minimize "make-goods"
- Data Consolidation: Aggregate data from digital dashboards and print distribution logs to create unified performance reports for clients
- Optimization: Monitor digital campaign pacing and suggest mid-flight adjustments to ensure 100% delivery of ordered impressions
Skills
- Although this is a remote position, candidates must reside in Southern California
- Exceptional accuracy in data entry; a single typo on an order or ad tag can lead to significant revenue loss
- Proficiency in ad servers, CRM software (Salesforce), and the Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to manage the immediate deadlines of digital "hot-fixes" alongside the long-range deadlines of print production
- 1–3 years in media operations, trafficking, or a billing-adjacent role within a publishing or agency environment
Benefits
- Eligible employees receive medical, dental, life and disability insurance.
- Eligible employees receive a 401k.
- Eligible employees receive paid time off and select paid holidays.
- Remote position; candidates must reside in Southern California.
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