Senior Manager, Ad Operations & Yield

2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Marketing and Growth
Babylist

Babylist

Babylist is the ultimate universal baby registry and marketplace, simplifying baby gear shopping with expert guidance and community support.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2011
$41M raised

Description

  • Assess the current ad-tech stack and deliver an ad-tech, inventory, and yield roadmap within the first 90 days.
  • Own Koddi configuration, serving logic, and delivery health across Registry, Feed, Shop, and other onsite placements.
  • Define inventory capacity, allocation, and prioritization rules, partnering with Revenue Systems to enforce them in Boostr and Koddi.
  • Improve eCPM, fill, sell-through, and utilization across existing inventory.
  • Establish and manage the outsourced onsite ad operations partner, including SLAs, QA standards, and escalation paths.
  • Lead offsite distribution strategy across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Babylist Connect.
  • Build incident-response processes to identify delivery issues before they result in make-goods.
  • Own the transition from flat-fee sponsorships toward CPM-based selling and eventual self-serve buying.
  • Lead team and vendor execution while remaining hands-on with ad server configuration and campaign troubleshooting.

Requirements

  • Sell-side experience at a publisher or retailer that owns and monetizes its inventory.
  • Recent hands-on experience administering an ad server, including line items, targeting, priorities, and delivery rules.
  • Strong understanding of ad server logic, including priority tiers, competing demand, pacing, frequency, and fill.
  • Experience owning yield metrics such as eCPM, fill, sell-through, and utilization and converting them into inventory and pricing decisions.
  • Experience building inventory frameworks covering capacity planning, allocation, prioritization, and overselling controls.
  • Experience leading employees or vendors while continuing to perform hands-on ad operations work.
  • Working knowledge of DSPs, SSPs, programmatic advertising, identity, and measurement.
  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to Sales, Product, and Finance and drive decisions.
  • Retail media experience preferred, particularly with platforms such as Koddi.
  • Experience transitioning direct-sold, flat-fee advertising toward CPM or programmatic selling preferred.
  • Familiarity with paid social media distribution across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, or YouTube preferred.
  • Comfort working across strategy, vendor management, and technical troubleshooting in a partly manual environment.
  • Regular use of AI tools and willingness to incorporate AI into daily work.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $143,963–$192,062 with a 20%–25% annual bonus opportunity.
  • Remote-first work environment across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.
  • Generous paid parental leave and PTO, including a company-wide paid Winter Wonder Week.
  • Remote work stipend for home-office setup.
  • Physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial-planning benefits.
  • Career advancement and performance-based development opportunities.

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