📸 Ad Operations Manager
📍 Location: Brighton, UK
💖 Department: Marketing
🌱Reports to: Head of Performance Marketing
📅Position type: Full time, Permanent (Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3 days from home!)

Take ownership of MPB’s digital ad engine. Run the tech behind the campaigns. Drive performance at scale.

At MPB, we’re transforming the way visual storytellers buy, sell, and trade kit. As the world’s largest platform for used photo and video gear, our growth is fuelled by a smart, data-led approach to marketing—and now we’re looking for an experienced Ad Operations Manager to help power the next phase.

As the Ad Operations Manager at MPB, you will oversee the technical and operational aspects of our digital advertising campaigns, ensuring seamless execution across digital platforms. You will manage ad trafficking, campaign setup, troubleshooting, and performance tracking, playing a crucial role in achieving our advertising objectives.

🛠 What you’ll be doing:

• Manage the end-to-end setup and trafficking of all digital ad campaigns across platforms like Google Ads, Meta Ads, DV360, and more.
  
  

• Own programmatic execution across DSPs (DV360, The Trade Desk, Xandr), from setup and QA through to optimisation and reporting.
  
  

• Lead on-platform tag management via Google Tag Manager, ensuring reliable tracking and data flow.
  
  

• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to implement pixel tracking, server-side tagging, and data integrations that drive campaign accuracy and insight.
  
  

• Troubleshoot campaign delivery issues and performance discrepancies with confidence and technical savvy.
  
  

• Constantly refine and evolve our ad tech stack, championing new tools and innovations that boost operational excellence.
  
  

🎯 What we’re looking for:

• Experience in ad operations or digital advertising, ideally within an eCommerce or marketplace environment
  
  

• Strong hands-on experience with programmatic campaign management (DV360 or similar) and a passion for precision
  
  

• Proficiency in tag management systems, ad servers (e.g., Campaign Manager), and tools like GA, Excel, and Tableau
  
  

• Excellent troubleshooting skills with a keen analytical mindset.
  
  

• You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team, and you’re excited to work cross-functionally with marketers, designers, and developers
  
  
  

🌱 What you’ll get:

• The opportunity to play a pivotal role in a performance-driven marketing team at a scaling, mission-led tech business
  
  

• A supportive, inclusive, and ambitious culture where you’ll be empowered to make things better
  
  

• Access to cutting-edge ad technologies and the freedom to drive operational innovation

🌱 Our values; applied:

🌍 Better Connected: We work collaboratively and embrace diversity, creating a safe space for all.

💡 Passionately Ambitious: We strive to improve, encouraging creativity and honesty.

🔎 Agents of Change: We are innovative, promote sustainability, and inspire development.

🌱 Empowering and Empowered: We encourage ownership, accountability, initiative, and celebrate success.

🌟 Focused on Excellence: We aim high and work smart and efficiently.

🚀 Insight Driven: We analyze, review, and make changes based on data.

💡 About MPB:

We’re a company built by and for creators. Every day, we help visual storytellers around the world access the gear they need—more sustainably, more affordably, and more easily. With offices in Brighton, Brooklyn, and Berlin, and a growing global community, we’re proud to be a place where ambition meets impact.

Benefits
We support our staff and their careers in every way we can and we offer the following benefits:

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
5% employer contributory pension scheme
Private healthcare
Access to EAP with a range of employee discounts
Buzzing social calendar
Dog friendly workplace.
Bespoke Learning Management System - the MPB 'Learning Lab' with access to thousands of free courses to upskill in any areas you'd like; whether personally or professionally
2 volunteer days for charity which aligns with MPB values