Ad Operations Manager
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About the Role
Adcities seeks an Ad Operations Manager in Dubai to plan, manage, and execute advertising campaigns for OOH/DOOH media. The role involves campaign planning, demand-side relations, supply-side operations, and end-to-end monitoring.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of campaigns focusing on contextual targeting capabilities
- Act as the direct interlocutor for agencies and clients to implement campaigns closed by the sales team
- Coordinate and manage relationships with media owners (OOH specialists, retail supports, etc.) to ensure correct campaign execution and inventory availability
- Oversee key documentation for campaign coordination, including budgets, purchase orders (POs), technical specifications, and final creative assets
- Control the full lifecycle of the campaign, ensuring correct data reconciliation for billing and payment management upon completion
- Support the sales team in presenting post campaign reports, analyzing results, and verifying the fulfillment of established KPIs
- Efficiently manage operations tools: Holded (Financial ERP), Adcities ad manager (proprietary technology), and Jira (project management)
- Maintain constant interaction with global engineering and product teams to ensure technical alignment across time zones
- Proactively seek process automation and alternative solutions to improve workflow autonomy
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in ad operations, account management, or technical campaign management within digital media or AdTech
- Deep understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem (programmatic, contextual, measurement) and OOH/DOOH market dynamics
- Technical proficiency: experience managing technical integrations and working alongside engineering or product teams
- Analytical mindset: excellent analytical skills, comfortable with performance data and reporting
- Communication: fluent in English. Arabic language is a plus
- Highly organized, autonomous, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast moving environment
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About Adcities
- Adcities is redefining outdoor advertising by bringing digital level targeting, measurement and attribution to the physical world.
- Our platform leverages real world signals, mobility data and contextual intelligence to deliver scalable, measurable OOH campaigns across global markets.
- We partner with leading publishers and brands such as L’Oréal, Coca Cola, Telefónica, to unlock the full potential of real world media through technology.
- We are present in the US, LATAM and now accelerating our international expansion in EMEA.
What you will do
- Campaign planning: lead the planning and execution of campaigns focusing on our contextual targeting capabilities.
- Demand side relations: act as the direct interlocutor for agencies and clients to implement campaigns closed by the sales team.
- Supply side operations: coordinate and manage relationships with media owners (OOH specialists, retail supports, etc.) to ensure correct campaign execution and inventory availability.
- Document management: oversee key documentation for campaign coordination, including budgets, purchase orders (POs), technical specifications, and final creative assets.
- End to end monitoring: control the full lifecycle of the campaign, ensuring correct data reconciliation for billing and payment management upon completion.
- Analysis & reporting: support the sales team in presenting post campaign reports, analyzing results, and verifying the fulfillment of established KPIs.
- Tech stack management: efficiently manage our operations tools holded (Financial ERP), Adcities ad manager (proprietary technology), and Jira (project management).
- International communication: maintain constant interaction with our global engineering and product teams to ensure technical alignment across time zones.
- Operational efficiency: proactively seek process automation and alternative solutions to improve workflow autonomy.
What we are looking for
- 3+ years of experience in ad operations, account management, or technical campaign management within digital media or AdTech.
- Deep understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem (programmatic, contextual, measurement) and OOH/DOOH market dynamics.
- Technical proficiency: experience managing technical integrations and working alongside engineering or product teams.
- Analytical mindset: excellent analytical skills, comfortable with performance data and reporting.
- Communication: fluent in English. Arabic language is a plus.
- Soft skills: highly organized, autonomous, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast moving environment.
Why join Adcities
- Join a fast growing Adtech startup at an early stage of its MENA expansion, with real opportunities to grow as the team scales
- Work at the intersection of outdoor, data and AI as the category is being redefined
- Work closely with experienced founders and a senior leadership team with a strong track record of building successful ventures
- A competitive package
- A company culture that is ambitious, transparent and genuinely international
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