Lead a regional technical ad-ops team to ensure successful delivery of programmatic and direct advertising campaigns. Manage ticket-based workflows, QA processes, SLAs, and escalations; collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, buyers, and DSP partners to troubleshoot delivery issues, improve performance, and drive long-term product fixes. Build training, documentation, and cross-functional partnerships while coordinating with offshore/global support teams.
We're looking for a Manager, Technical Advertising Solutions to lead a team responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of advertising campaigns across Spotify's Ads business. You'll partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, buyers, and DSP partners to solve complex technical challenges across our Programmatic and Direct advertising products, improve campaign performance, and help scale a world-class advertising platform.
The Manager, Technical Advertising Solutions will serve as the operational and technical lead for their regional team — driving quality, optimizing campaign delivery, and fostering strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. This role works in close coordination with our offshore support teams and reports to the Head of Global Advertising Solutions (Programmatic & Direct).
What You'll Do
- Lead and manage a regional team of troubleshooting and QA professionals focused on programmatic and direct advertising campaigns
- Partner with Product and Sales Training teams to support new product launches, identify skill gaps, and build scalable training programs and operational documentation.
- Work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to optimize digital advertising campaign delivery and resolve technical issues
- Partner with buyers and DSP partners to troubleshoot and resolve campaign delivery challenges
- Lead collaboration with global support teams to deliver high-quality campaign operations and consistent customer outcomes
- Own the regional ticket-based support workflow, maintaining quality and SLA standards across the team
- Drive structured QA processes and develop best practices for programmatic and direct ad campaign troubleshooting
- Serve as a regional escalation point for complex technical issues impacting ad delivery and campaign performance
- Identify recurring campaign and platform issues and partner with Product, Engineering, and Ad Product Quality teams to drive long-term solutions.
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of experience in digital advertising, including 3+ years working with programmatic advertising solutions.
- You have experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing technical or operational teams.; experience partnering with globally distributed support teams is a plus
- You have experience in Ad Operations at a Publisher, SSP, and/or DSP — DSP experience is a strong plus
- You have experience building strong cross-functional relationships across go-to-market teams such as Sales and Customer Success
- You have strong technical knowledge of the digital ads ecosystem, including ad serving, programmatic buying, campaign delivery, and measurement
- You have experience working on a ticket-based support or operations system
- You have customer service or client-facing experience, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations under pressure
- You are highly adaptable to new systems, platforms, and technologies
- You have strong knowledge of the broader digital advertising industry landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, and ad verification tools
Where You’ll Be
- This role is based in New York
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. This team operates across our EST time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $114,486.00 - $163,552.00, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify New York, New York, USA Office
4 World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States, 10007
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