Senior Campaign Operations Manager (Ad Tech & Data)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid working with 2 days working from home. The option to work from abroad is available for up to 4 weeks.

Company

hirify.global is a European automotive car-changing destination combining technology, media and automotive expertise across vehicle buying, selling, advertising and leasing.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of digital advertising campaigns across hirify.global and hirify.global Studio brands, from planning and setup through optimisation, reporting and post-campaign analysis.
• Ensure accurate, timely campaign launches and delivery against client objectives and KPIs, while identifying opportunities for upweights, extensions and optimisation.
• Act as the primary post-sale client contact for campaign performance and technical questions, producing reports and presenting findings and recommendations.
• Troubleshoot ad serving, creative rendering, tracking and reporting-data issues across internal and third-party sources.
• Lead ad tech projects, technical integrations, reporting-discrepancy resolution and the development of new tools, features and automated reporting with Product, Engineering and Data.
• Improve campaign processes, automation, AI adoption, quality control, efficiency, accuracy and scalability, while sharing ad tech and data knowledge across the team.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and delivering digital advertising campaigns within a publisher, media owner, agency or ad tech environment.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Google Ad Manager and experience with video, display and HTML5 creative formats.
• Confidence troubleshooting ad serving, creative rendering, tracking and reporting-data issues.
• Solid understanding of programmatic advertising, yield management and optimisation techniques.
• Experience leading or contributing to ad tech or data projects, including tool implementation, discrepancy resolution or technical integrations.
• Strong analytical, organisational and attention-to-detail skills, including the ability to manage multiple campaigns, projects, stakeholders and deadlines and turn data into clear insights.
• Confident communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain campaign performance and technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Commercially minded and collaborative approach, with genuine interest in improving processes through technology, data, automation and AI.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with commercially important campaigns, tight deadlines and changing priorities; proactive ownership and willingness to challenge existing ways of working are required.

Nice to have

• Experience in automotive, publishing or digital media.
• Certifications in Google Ad Manager, Google Ads, programmatic platforms or other ad tech tools.
• Experience with BigQuery, SQL, Looker or similar data and reporting tools.
• Knowledge of paid social, YouTube, off-site display, demand-generation or lead-generation campaigns.
• Familiarity with DV360, Meta Ads Manager, Salesforce, Driftrock or audience-management platforms.
• Previous involvement in process-improvement, automation or AI projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with the option to work from abroad for up to 4 weeks.
• Matched pension contributions, share options, Bupa private medical and dental insurance, life assurance and eyecare vouchers.
• 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 30 days after three years and 35 days after ten years; the option to buy 3 additional days.
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies, plus childcare support.
• Learning and development budget, monthly mental-wellbeing coaching, regular social events and home-office allowance up to £500/€550.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with the Talent team.
• Online interview with the Hiring Manager.
• In-person presentation interview followed by a Values Interview.