Campaign Manager

About the role

This position coordinates advertising operations across editorial, creative, and development teams. The role focuses on executing campaigns and maintaining technical delivery standards.

Marketing teams grow awareness and demand for a company's products. They write copy, run campaigns, manage channels, and measure results. The work spans content, paid ads, email, events, and search. Marketing roles combine creativity with data and constant testing. Marketing teams usually run experiments every week and keep the work that performs. Most companies hire specialists in channels such as paid search, email, or content.

Key facts

What you'll do

Advertising insertion orders are managed and post-sale execution is owned to move campaigns forward.

Podcast and display campaigns are set up, quality-checked, and troubleshot so that scripts and audio assets run correctly across all Vox Media podcasts as the AdOps expert.

Client creative is verified against technical specifications, and tracking tags are appended, fired, and QA-tested to ensure accurate reporting.

Client requirements are translated into technical ad-serving configurations that match business needs.

Campaign delivery and performance are monitored to protect revenue retention through ongoing optimization.

Requirements

Relevant work experience of 5+ years or a bachelor's degree with a strong academic record is required.

Prior knowledge in client services, ad operations, trafficking, and ad-serving is mandatory, with Megaphone experience as a plus.

The ability to juggle multiple tasks, prioritize responsibilities, and manage time with strong attention to detail is essential.

A willingness to learn and complete whatever is necessary to see projects through to completion is required.

Effective collaboration within cross-functional teams, curiosity, and ambition to grow are expected.

1+ years of trafficking ads in Google Ad Manager and/or Megaphone is required.

Familiarity with order management systems such as Boostr is required.

Familiarity with brand-safety and verification vendors such as DoubleVerify and MOAT is required.

Experience with project management tools is required.

Working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets is required.

Practical notes

The role is based in New York with standard company policies on equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations.

Typical interview steps

Marketing interviews often include a portfolio review, a campaign exercise, and analytics questions. Candidates may be asked to plan a launch, write a brief, or improve a funnel. Some loops include a presentation. Results from past campaigns carry the most weight. Interviewers ask about specific campaigns you ran and what the numbers said. Preparing a short case of one campaign with its results is strong preparation.

Good to know

Campaign management roles often require balancing stakeholder communication with technical execution.

Ad operations positions rely on accuracy in tracking, tagging, and reconciliation.

Experience with digital audio platforms is valuable in media environments.

Cross-functional collaboration is common when aligning sales, production, and editorial teams.

Familiarity with verification vendors supports viewability and brand safety goals.

Comfort with spreadsheet tools supports detailed reporting and campaign monitoring.

Questions to ask

Worth asking in any interview: how the team measures success, who the role works with daily, what the onboarding looks like, and what the company is trying to achieve this year. Asking what past hires did well is a strong final question. Keep the list short and pick the questions that matter most to you.

Career growth

Marketing careers move from associate to manager, director, and VP levels. Specializations include growth, brand, product marketing, and content. Generalists often start, then specialize as they advance. Measured impact on pipeline and revenue drives progression. Marketing careers reward measurable results and adaptability. Channel experience plus business sense usually beats a general resume.