Senior Ad Operations Manager

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Japan

Full job description

Nexxen is hiring a Senior Ad Operations Manager in Japan. The role involves designing, launching, and optimizing ad campaigns for Japan and international markets, ensuring quality across multi-segment campaigns, collaborating with Sales and internal teams to assess feasibility and risks, monitoring delivery performance, standardizing workflows, and contributing to documentation and knowledge sharing. Candidates must have 5-8+ years of experience in Ad Operations or Programmatic campaign management, hands-on experience with Demand Side operations, proficiency with DSPs like DV360 and The Trade Desk, strong cross-functional collaboration skills, native-level Japanese, and willingness to work in-office at least 3 days per week.

What you'll do

Design, set up, launch, and optimise campaigns for Japan and international markets
Ensure operational quality across multi-segment and multi-KPI campaigns
Partner with the Sales team to assess feasibility, execution quality, and potential risks before launch
Monitor delivery performance and proactively adjust where necessary
Standardise workflows and develop templates to improve operational repeatability
Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and internal review processes
Build operational structures that are scalable and sustainable, not dependent on ad hoc effort

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Ad Operations / Programmatic campaign management (5–8+ years for Senior-level candidates)
Hands-on experience in Demand Side operations (advertiser / agency-facing)
Experience using DSPs such as DV360, The Trade Desk, etc.
Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, and internal stakeholders
Native-level Japanese
Willing to be in office minimum 3 days per week