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Operations Manager - Global Ad Operations

Hybrid Theory · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Hybrid Theory

Affectv is an advertising technology company that runs media campaigns for global brands. Backed by Octopus Ventures.

About the role

We operate as a global operations team alongside multiple local business units, each with its own sales and account management. That structure is a real advantage commercially and a real source of friction operationally. This role exists because of the second part.

What they're looking for

  • You finish the task to get the result, not just the deadline. "Delivered, but it did not work" is not delivered — you either stay with it or say the approach was wrong and change it
  • Managing an operations, technical support or ad operations team, including managing through team leads
  • Measuring workload in a defined unit and using it to argue for, or against, headcount
  • Designing a process and getting it adopted by people who do not report to you
  • Holding a position with someone senior, outside your reporting line, without capitulating or escalating immediately
  • Saying no, or "not this week", with the trade-off made explicit
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Operations Manager — Global Ad Operations

Team: Global Ad Operations · Reports to: Head of Global Ad Operations Location: Bulgaria — [Varna / Sofia / Remote] Contract: Permanent, full time

About us

Improve Digital, part of Azerion, monetises the inventory of publishers across Europe and beyond. We run a managed monetisation service, a self-service product for long-tail publishers, and in-app and video solutions. Our stack is our own Prebid wrapper, Google Ad Manager, and a set of supply-side platform integrations that grows every quarter.

We operate as a global operations team alongside multiple local business units, each with its own sales and account management. That structure is a real advantage commercially and a real source of friction operationally. This role exists because of the second part.

The role in one paragraph

We are looking for someone to run the operating system of our ad operations function — not to be its most senior technician. You will own how work enters the team, how it is prioritised, how much capacity we have, what quality means, and how we hold our own standards when a business unit changes its priorities for the third time in a week. You will manage a...

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