Company Description

Dailymotion is the leading video discovery destination & technology that learns about your tastes over time, constantly surfacing the best, most relevant content on the web. Our mission is to provide the best video user experience for consumers on the market, connecting publishers and advertisers to engaged viewers who turn to dailymotion for their daily fix of the most compelling music, entertainment, news and sports content around.

Through partnerships with the world's leading publishers and content creators, including CBS, CNN, Fox Sports, GQ, Mashable, Universal Music Group, VICE and more, dailymotion commands 4 billion monthly pageviews across its mobile app, desktop and connected TV experiences. Dailymotion is owned by Vivendi, one of the largest mass-media corporations in the world.

We are looking for a Head of Ad Operations - Americas to join the Dailymotion Exchange (DMX) Advertising Team. This person will be in charge of coordinating the entire ad operations business unit in the NYC office, including operations for business activities, product operations and business analysis. The Head of Ad Operations is expected to manage a team of 4 to 6 people. We are looking for an advertising expert to manage monetization with its main demand partners and to manage DMX video inventory locally.

Job Description

We are looking for an Ad Operations Manager to join Dailymotion Operations Team. The individual will oversee all ongoing operations projects (see below) and coordinate the go-to-market approach when working on strategic developments with the product and partnership teams.

Dailymotion has launched its own private video SSP and ad exchange and is now looking for an advertising expert to manage monetization with its main demand partners and to manage video inventory locally as well as display partnerships.

Operations for business activities - You will oversee regular Ad Operations for the different business activities with a focus on display:

• Ensure the execution and the deployment of both direct (creative assets and tags) and programmatic (deal IDs, ad-networks) video and display campaigns
• Coordinate with business teams to rationalize and ensure the success of commercial actions as well as technical feasibility
• Support business teams during operational and business reviews and act as a key operational operation point of contact for major partnerships and agreements

Product Operation Projects: You will drive and execute product operations projects (global projects and your own project portfolio):

• Design, spec and lead projects that fall within the scope of product operations and ad-delivery
• Orchestrate project operational roll out and act as a safeguard to protect monetization revenues during project deployment phases
• Familiarity with iFrame, Script, HTML technologies ( Display Ads) and at least one video ad server (DFP, proprietary, etc) – display ad server knowledge
• Recover, summarize and escalate relevant technical failures to technical support and ad-engineers
• Example of recent/on-going projects: ad-serving and SSP migration, S2S cookie integration, inventory tiering, SDK implementation for viewability

Business Analysis - In cooperation with the Head of Business Analytics, you will assist the functional success of business analysis in the NYC office:

• Trace daily revenues and alert for revenues drop / Provide daily reporting for the American activity
• Account monthly & quarterly revenues and account budget target achievement for the American region
• Oversee partnership analytics and business intelligence for decision making and business arbitrage
• Contribute to QBR preparation and activity review with detailed numbers for the different partnerships in place

Transversal role -

• Become a key representative for the Ad Operations activities in the American region. You will interact on a frequent basis with our different teams based in NYC & FR (Sales, Partnership, Ad-product, Ad-Technology).
• Act as a mentor within the organization and ensure a high level of communication to business teams: Best practices, product updates, technical documentation, etc.
• Assess potential technical needs for business teams and requiring internal developments (use-case, specs, market benchmark, etc.)

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in ad operations or ad product management
• Demonstrable large scale international business management experience in fast-paced digital & operational environment. You are an actual doer who delivers fast under pressure.
• Comfortable with numbers, logical reasoning, and going beyond the numbers to think logically about underlying business issues
• An outstanding understanding and functional knowledge of technical market standards (VAST, VPAID, ad-serving, SSP, DSP, oRTB standards, etc.)
• Ability to understand ad product technical features easily and challenge technical components of such product
• Above average presentation and communication skills (e.g. superior skills to draft business material and intelligible operational notes)

Additional Information

Location: New York
Type of contract: Full-time
Start Date: ASAP

• Flexible time off, vacation, holidays, sick-leave so you can take time off when you need to
• Fitness club membership to NY Health & Racquet Club
• 100% healthcare coverage starting on day 1
• Commuter benefits
• 401k Contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Fully stocked kitchens with free snacks and drinks

If you want to explore Dailymotion culture a little further please check out:

1./ Our BuiltIn page: https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/dailymotion

2./ Our Recent Global Hackathon in November 2018. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x70val9

3./ Welcome to the Jungle page: https://www.welcometothejungle.co/companies/dailymotion/team

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.