Paid Media Operations Manager

Overview

In this role you will own day-to-day paid media operations for Moonbug’s cross-platform portfolio, driving campaigns from planning to reporting. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to optimize performance across Google, YouTube, Meta, TikTok and Amazon, shaping how our brands reach families worldwide. You’ll turn data into decisions, build scalable processes, and help elevate the global advertising operations of the world’s largest YouTube publisher. This is a hands-on, impact-oriented position with a strong emphasis on analytics, collaboration, and optimization.

Pay / Benefits

• Free private healthcare
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Matched 5% pension
• Free yoga/fitness wellbeing classes
• Free weekly lunch
• Friday drinks at 4pm

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, optimize, and report on all paid media activity across Google Ad Manager, Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and Amazon
• Juggle multiple concurrent campaigns while maintaining clear stakeholder updates
• Own end-to-end budgets, including forecasting, reconciliation and reallocation
• Use data to drive decisions and provide actionable recommendations to clients
• Track industry trends in ad products, safety, and buying to adapt activity
• Identify leaner, faster operating practices and new tools to raise team performance
• Contribute to Moonbug’s global strategic narrative in partnership with other teams

Key requirements

• Proven experience with Google Ad Manager and Google Ads, including YouTube advertising, trafficking, and analytics workflows
• 1–2 years running Facebook and TikTok ads with pixel tracking and audience building
• Experience creating media plans and RFPs for digital video campaigns
• Strong client service and ability to lead campaigns from brief to post-campaign presentations
• Support for Global Sales as advisory, planning, and execution for paid media
• Experience across Amazon, Spotify, DSPs, and Shopify is encouraged but not required
• Solid understanding of performance marketing fundamentals, attribution, and web analytics

• Collaborative mindset
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Analytical mindset with data-driven decision making
• Google Ad Manager
• Google Ads
• Meta (Facebook) advertising

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