Ad Operations Lead

Company Description
**Are you ready to be a big part of something big?**

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it?

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

**What’s on offer**:

- A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work®, an AFR BOSS Best Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you’ll actually have face time with.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

**Job Description**:
**What you will do**

This is your opportunity to join carsales as the Ad Operations Lead. Reporting to the Head of Customer Success, this role plays a key function within the Customer Success Centre of Excellence, to execute, optimise and deliver media campaigns, to achieve client objectives.
- Manage and support the team with allocation of workload, escalations, coaching and development.
- Collaborate with the Head of Customer Success and key stakeholders to set strategy and process.
- Guide and support the execution and delivery of all campaigns by the Ad Operations team.
- Create, execute, optimise and deliver media campaigns promptly and accurately to achieve campaign objectives.
- Monitor and analyze network and product health to provide learnings and actionable insights for the Ad Operations team and stakeholders in order to drive better outcomes for customers.
- Stay up to date on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure campaigns remain competitive.

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**
- Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
- Digital advertising operations experience within publisher operations.
- Experience within buy side social or digital media will be beneficial.
- Demonstrated ability to coach, develop and support a team.
- Advanced experience using ad technologies such as Google Ad Manager, Xandr, Bonzai, Polar, IAS, Salesforce (or equivalents).
- Ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously while managing potentially conflicting priorities and stakeholder needs.
- An analytical mindset and willingness to find solutions and solve problems.

Additional Information
**A few other things we want to let you know about...**
- We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask.
- We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.