{"id":1139956,"url":"https://alion.io/job/taboola-ad-operations-specialist-2","title":"Ad Operations Specialist","company":{"id":5459,"name":"Taboola","domain":"taboola.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/taboola","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":15,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.333,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":73,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Gurgaon, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":12000,"max_usd":29000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1025},"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Gemini","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T10:18:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T06:44:53Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!\nAs an Ad Operations Specialist on the Ad Operations team in our Gurugram office, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the seamless setup, execution, optimization, and delivery of digital advertising campaigns. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams including Account Management, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver exceptional client outcomes through operational excellence and technical expertise.\nThis is an exciting opportunity to deepen your understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, leverage AI-powered solutions, and contribute to innovative initiatives that improve campaign performance, operational efficiency, and customer success.\nTo thrive in this role, you'll need:\n2+ years of experience in Digital Marketing, Ad Operations, Programmatic Advertising, or the Ad Technology industry.\nStrong understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, including DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, Ad Exchanges, Ad Servers, and RTB fundamentals.\nHands-on experience with campaign trafficking, optimization, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring across display, native, and video advertising platforms.\nGood understanding of digital advertising KPIs and pricing models including CPM, vCPM, CPC, CPCV, CPA, CPA Goal, ROAS, and CPC Goal.\nStrong analytical mindset with proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Index-Match, advanced formulas, data analysis, and reporting).\nWorking knowledge of SQL for querying, validating, analyzing, and troubleshooting campaign, advertiser, and performance datasets. Ability to write basic to intermediate SQL queries involving filtering, joins, aggregations, and data validation will be highly preferred.\nExcellent problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate campaign delivery issues and identify root causes using data.\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across global teams.\nBonus points if you have:\nExperience working with DSPs and advertising platforms such as Taboola’s Realize DSP, Google Ad Manager (GAM), Google Ads, DV360, The Trade Desk (TTD), Outbrain, or other programmatic buying platforms.\nBasic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, or browser debugging tools for troubleshooting tracking pixels, impression/click trackers, and website integrations.\nExperience working with AI-powered productivity tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar LLMs for process automation, reporting, documentation, campaign troubleshooting, workflow optimization, or operational efficiency.\nExposure to workflow automation, prompt engineering, AI-assisted reporting, or internal AI initiatives will be considered an added advantage.\nKnowledge of APIs, tagging, tracking implementations, or third-party measurement solutions is a plus.\nHow you'll make an impact\nAs an Ad Operations Specialist, you'll bring value by:\nSetting up, managing, monitoring, and optimizing display, native, and video advertising campaigns across Taboola's advertising platforms while ensuring high execution quality.\nManaging campaign setup and execution on Taboola's DSP (Realize) while ensuring campaign delivery aligns with client objectives and platform best practices.\nPerforming comprehensive QA checks to ensure flawless campaign launches, tracking implementation, creative rendering, and campaign delivery.\nMonitoring campaign health, pacing, budget utilization, and delivery to proactively identify optimization opportunities.\nTroubleshooting campaign delivery, tracking, targeting, and technical issues while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams when required.\nAnalyzing campaign performance data and preparing actionable reports that help internal stakeholders and clients improve campaign outcomes.\nLeveraging SQL and analytical tools to investigate campaign performance, validate data, identify anomalies, and support operational decision-making.\nUtilizing AI tools and automation opportunities to improve reporting quality, streamline operational workflows, enhance productivity, and reduce manual effort.\nCollaborating closely with Account Management, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver exceptional customer experience.\nContributing to process improvement initiatives, documentation, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence projects.\nStaying up to date with emerging trends in digital advertising, programmatic technologies, AI, privacy regulations, and Ad Tech innovations.\nWhy Taboola?\n\n If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:\nAdam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”\nWell-being: Competitive benefits and a supportive work environment\nFlexibility: Hybrid work model that encourages both in-office collaboration and remote productivity\nWork with industry leaders: Taboola partners with leading publishers and advertisers to deliver results at scale\nReady to realize your potential?\n\n It’s easy! Submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below.\nTaboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.\nAbout Taboola\n Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Taboola to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.\nBy submitting your application/CV, any personal information you provide will be subject to Taboola’s Candidates Data Policy. Please review our policy carefully before submitting any of your personal information. 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