Ad Solutions Producer
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Job Description
The New York Times' Advertising team is looking for an Ads Solutions Producer. You are eager to join this great team of experts critical to NYT's success at creating and QA’ing compelling responsive ad units for our advertising clients. As an Ads Solutions Producer, you will oversee the daily coordination, management, production and deployment of all custom creative HTML5 display ads.
In addition to the production of display ads, you will help oversee the production of the audio advertising spots. Podcasts are a fast-growing and important part of NYT's product offering and the Ad Solutions team plays a necessary role in moving this business forward.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York headquarters, reporting to the Senior Manager, Ad Solutions. You can typically expect to be in the office 3 days per week.
About the Role
As an Ad Solutions Producer, you will build and launch our premium advertising products using custom templates in Google Ad Manager. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Advertising Operations, Sales, Creative Technology, Ad Acceptability, Ad Mission, and external vendors, while liaising directly with high-profile clients. We are looking for a strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical partners and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage all daily production responsibilities and with high client satisfaction including but not limited to, leading kick off calls with advertising clients and our Sales team, communicating creative specifications, managing timelines, and coordinating production with Campaign Management to meet deployment of campaigns and flight starts.
- Use CSS to build NYT proprietary responsive within HTML templates
- Follow rich media best practices and production processes as established by Ad Solutions Manager
- Play a critical role to enforce and refine processes with Sales Planning, Campaign Management, Sales, and external clients
- Be the internal and external promoter for your product offering, occasionally work with the sales channel and important customers
- Coordinate with Campaign Management team for podcast script collection, and engage voice actors for tailored recordings on time and within budget
- Manage the vendor mixing process of raw recordings for final QA
- Be the escalation point for live advertising-related issues. Use a tracking system for live site issues and use the issues log to assess vendor partnerships and QA process
- Work with our established custom unit vendor partners to improve ad production, shepherding best practices for working with those vendors from pre to post-sale teams
- Work with CreativeTech by documenting and communicating critical production challenges and client custom requests to establish the best technical requirements, release date/schedules, and refine technical product documentation
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience working as a producer or related account management working in Rich Media and Creative Solutions, Ad Operations, or related area
- Knowledge of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, XML, and cookies
- We ask that you have experience with HTML, CSS, experience using programs such as Adobe Creative Suite, and project management tools like Monday.com and Jira