Associate Ad Operations Specialist
Sportradar is looking for a structured and analytical Ad Operations Specialist to join the team in Vienna. The role serves as a central interface between sales, clients, agencies, and technical partners, focusing on the technical implementation, delivery, and optimisation of digital advertising campaigns.
In this position, the successful candidate will manage campaigns using the ADITION ad server and support the development of programmatic advertising setups. The role offers the opportunity to actively shape ad operations processes, explore new advertising technologies, and contribute to the growth of the digital advertising business.
- Booking, monitoring, controlling, and optimising digital campaigns using the ADITION ad server.
- Technical implementation and quality assurance of display and video campaigns.
- Checking and implementing advertising materials, tracking pixels, and third-party tags.
- Controlling correct campaign delivery and identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Continuous monitoring of relevant campaign KPIs and available advertising inventory.
- Creating and preparing campaign reports and evaluations.
- Supporting the reconciliation of campaign and billing data.
- Operational support and optimisation of programmatic advertising delivery.
- Implementation and monitoring of programmatic deals.
- Collaboration with SSPs, DSPs, and other programmatic partners.
- Analysing performance and delivery data to identify optimisation potential.
- Supporting the implementation and further development of programmatic solutions.
- Acting as a contact person for sales, account management, agencies, and clients.
- Supporting the sales team with questions regarding digital advertising campaigns.
- Direct communication with agencies, marketers, and external technology partners.
- Contributing to the development and implementation of new advertising products and formats.
- Documenting and further developing existing ad operations processes.
- Completed commercial, economic, or technical education or a corresponding degree (required).
- Initial to several years of professional experience in ad operations, online advertising, campaign management, or digital media (required).
- Practical experience with the ADITION ad server (preferred).
- Good knowledge of programmatic advertising (required).
- Good technical understanding of digital ad delivery and campaign management (required).
- Strong analytical thinking skills and a confident approach to numbers and data (required).
- Structured, independent, and solution-oriented working style (required).
- Accuracy and a high sense of quality (required).
- Strong communication skills and team orientation (required).
- Very good German and English language skills (required).
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript (nice-to-have).
- Experience in digital advertising or on the publisher side (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with media agencies or advertising clients (nice-to-have).
- International working environment with colleagues from Europe, Asia, and the USA.
- Significant creative freedom and the opportunity to influence ad operations processes.
- Short decision-making paths and an open corporate culture.
- Close cooperation with sales, account management, product, and technology teams.
- Flexible working hours.
- Diverse and inclusive corporate culture focused on collaboration, trust, and mutual respect.
- Exciting tasks in a dynamic sports and media environment.
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.