Job Description

About Acast
Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the role
We are looking for an experienced Ad Ops Manager who will be a part of a Global Team working primarily across our UK and Irish markets. Reporting into the Ad Ops Director of EMEA, you will be responsible for delivering successful campaigns for our advertisers across both direct and programmatic buying routes. You will be based in London and the role will focus on excellence in campaign management. The Ad Operations Manager will work closely with our Sales, Content and Product teams to ensure the smooth execution of campaigns, podcaster support and troubleshooting from an operational perspective.

What you'll do

• Manage day-to-day ad operation functions for both direct advertisers and programmatic buyers

• Inventory forecasting and sell-through rate management for sales representatives

• Quality assurance and testing of audio and video campaign creatives

• Conduct delivery and performance analysis, providing feedback and optimisations to Account Managers for both direct and programmatic buying routes

• Provide comprehensive delivery reporting

• Perform thorough quality assurance checks of insertion orders within CRM systems ahead of billing cycles

• Troubleshooting issues, ensuring fast resolution alongside our Ad Tech teams or programmatic buyers with minimal campaign disruption

• Contribute towards the maintenance of trafficking and workflow procedures to ensure consistency and efficiency

• Assist with Ad Operations related projects in conjunction with product and development teams

Who you are

• Minimum of 3 years experience working with Ad Servers and managing digital media campaigns.

• Knowledge of broadcast/podcasting would be beneficial

• Demonstrated knowledge of Programmatic deal creation, execution and familiarity with DSP/SSP’s

• Organised, high attention to detail and comfortable working closely with data

• Confident in presenting market updates to Sales leads

• You are adaptable to learning new tools and processes

• You are both independent and collaborative; you like working as part of a diverse team and liaising with multiple stakeholders

• Motivated and enthusiastic team player with strong interpersonal skills

• You have intermediate excel skills and you are comfortable with business intelligence tools

Location

This role offers the flexibility of remote, in-office, or hybrid work. However, we expect you to live within a commutable distance to the office to attend occasional training sessions, team meetings, and social events.

Culture
Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!