Project Manager, Digital Advertising Operations
NPR
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Project Manager, Digital Advertising Operations (Contract)
Overview:
About the Company
National Public Media (NPM) is the media sales division of NPR and PBS. As the sponsorship sales team for national and regional offerings on NPR and PBS stations and digital assets, National Public Media offers the best public media sponsorship opportunities. Sponsorship offerings include flagship news programs like Morning Edition®, and integrated presence on NPR.org and PBS.org and custom packages and event activation from PBS Digital Studios and NPR Music. We work with companies across categories with a range of objectives — from financial services to home improvement, national branding to regional retail — to create sponsorships that perform.
The Digital Advertising Operations Project Manager will work to support Corporate Sponsorship for NPR. The department works directly with NPR’s sales, marketing, and design teams to create and implement digital sponsorship campaigns to promote and generate sponsorship for NPR’s top-quality digital programming including, but not limited to: NPR.org, NPROne, TED Radio Hour, Planet Money, How I Built This, Invisibilia, etc.
The Digital Advertising Operations Project Manager will spearhead the implementation of a new podcasting tool. NPR is transitioning to dynamic ad-insertion for mid-roll as its sponsorship product. This new feature will require meticulous reporting, project management, client interaction, as well as a high volume of quality assurance testing.
Candidates should have a strong interest in digital media, a strong audio technical background, and experience QA-ing new product launches. They should also be comfortable communicating with NPR’s various sponsors, many of which are Fortune 500 companies. Learn about some of our sponsors here: http://nationalpublicmedia.com/npr/
Essential Duties Include:
• Supervise the migration of 100 podcasting advertising campaigns to a new ad serving format
• Keep track of advertiser campaign goals and pacing
• QA podcast sponsorship for 30 podcasts
• QA ad-server prioritization decisions (Triton Digital)
• Track pacing for ad-delivery, relay issues as they arrive to the correct teams
• Building reports from large datasets for internal stakeholders and clients
• Becoming the go-to person for all things Triton Digital mid-roll delivery
• Troubleshoot under-delivering campaigns
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have strong writing skills, project management experience, and exude both creativity and strong analytical skills.
• 2 years or work experience
• Strong preference for experience in project management and QA
• Must have attention to detail, ability to work independently and as part of a larger team, and possess excellent organizational skills
• Client services experience
• Must be proficient in Excel and comfortable working with math and formulas
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with project management software (Trello, Basecamp etc.)
• Audio editing experience
• Experience managing/launching a new digital product
• Experience in ad-serving platforms such as DoubleClick for Publishers or Operative1
• Software QA experience
• Ability to derive meaningful information from large datasets
• Enthusiasm for public media, its mission and its programs