[Hiring] Media Operations Manager @Advantage HQ

Role Description

The Media Operations Manager will manage Media Buying teams while owning the systems that support their performance. You will be responsible for turning a group of capable individuals into a well-run operating unit.

You will work closely with Media Buying leadership and cross-functional teams to improve execution, capacity, quality, and team performance.

What You'll Own

• Build the team operating system:
  • Establish clear workflows, operating rhythms, standards, and accountability mechanisms for the teams you manage.
  • Determine what needs to happen consistently across accounts and build practical systems that make that possible.
• Manage team performance:
  • Lead Team Leads, Media Buyers, and Media Analysts and hold the team accountable for performance, quality, and execution.
  • Create a clear feedback loop between individual performance, team performance, and client outcomes.
• Improve operational efficiency:
  • Identify bottlenecks, recurring errors, unnecessary manual work, and gaps in communication.
  • Redesign processes and introduce tools, automation, and documentation where they create meaningful improvements.
• Manage capacity and resources:
  • Monitor workload across teams and make recommendations around account allocation, hiring, staffing, and resource requirements.
  • Ensure the organization has the capacity to support client volume changes.
• Develop leaders:
  • Coach Team Leads and high-potential Media Buyers and help build the next layer of leadership within the organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, growth marketing, or a related field
• Strong e-commerce experience
• Experience managing Media Buyers, Analysts, Team Leads, or similar professionals
• Experience building or improving operating processes and team workflows
• Strong knowledge of Meta, Google, TikTok, and other paid media platforms
• Experience with performance management and team development
• Experience managing team capacity and resource allocation
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
• Experience in an agency, growth, or high-volume client environment is valuable

Benefits

• This is an opportunity to help build the operating infrastructure behind a rapidly growing media organization.
• You will have significant ownership over how teams work, how performance is measured, how capacity is managed, and how we scale without allowing operational complexity to slow us down.

Compensation & Location

• $50,000 - $110,000 USD total annual compensation, including base salary, performance bonus, and equity.
• Fully remote. We have built the infrastructure for high-performance distributed teams and trust our people to do their best work from wherever they work best.
• We are open to candidates globally.
• We care far more about ownership, judgment, and execution than geography.