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Megan McGuckin

New York,NY

Summary

Accomplished Senior Ad Operations Manager with a proven track record, enhancing campaign performance and client satisfaction through strategic media planning and strong communication. Expert in conversion tracking and performance optimization, leading to significant market competitiveness. Skilled in fostering team productivity and mastering ad technologies, ensuring high-quality campaign delivery.


Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Ad Operations Manager

Aki Technologies
01.2023 - Current
  • Managing large-scale, high-budget advertising campaigns for prestigious clients, ensuring precise targeting and on-time execution.
  • Optimize inventory utilization by analyzing available ad space across various channels and making strategic allocation decisions.
  • Improved the quality of creatives used in campaigns by working closely with designers, providing them with feedback and suggesting changes on best ways to build dynamic units.
  • Enhanced team productivity on high profile clients by streamlining workflow processes and implementing effective project management tools.
  • Spearheaded the implementation of new ad technologies, increasing efficiency and competitiveness in the market.
  • Trained new team members on ad operations best practices, contributing to a knowledgeable and highly skilled workforce.
  • Reduced discrepancies in reporting by working closely with third-party vendors and improving their understanding of our requirements.
  • Worked as a mentor to 2-3 team members, helped providing guidance on intricate campaigns and how to optimize if performance struggle.

Ad Operations Manager

Aki Technologies
09.2021 - 01.2023
  • Developed strong relationships with agency partners, resulting in increased client satisfaction and account growth.
  • Collaborated closely with sales, marketing, and creative teams to deliver comprehensive ad solutions for clients.
  • Increased revenue potential by identifying upsell opportunities within existing accounts.
  • Experience working in platforms TradeDesk, Salesforce, Katana, Vistar, DoubleVerify, IAS.

Associate Digital Campaign Manager

Townsquare Media
07.2020 - 09.2021

• Maintain a book of business of clients in a wide variety of industries and of all sizes to ensure their digital marketing strategy is aligned with their business goals and driving meaningful results.
• Ensure campaigns are properly set up in DSP with correct creatives, targeting parameters, and budget and that overall strategy, tactics, and KPIs align with client’s goals and expectations
• Weekly calls with Market sales managers to review client campaign performance and to update on potential new clients
• Set up Google Tag Manager at launch to efficiently deploy tracking and retargeting pixels
• Monitor pacing of all campaigns on a weekly basis to ensure campaigns are delivering on contracted KPIs in full
• Conduct performance reporting with clients and provide detailed insights and recommendations on where we can
optimize to improve overall campaign performance and drive the most meaningful results
• Experienced working in platforms AppNexus, Google Ads, Facebook Business Manager, Simpli.fi, Centro, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and DOMO

Digital Campaign Coordinator

Townsquare Media
11.2019 - 07.2020

• Help support Client Services team with timely campaign launch and quality assure campaign ticket submissions
• Communicate campaign details required for execution
• Build internal insertion orders with campaign details required for traffic and launch
• Create campaign pixels, uploading creative into DSP, and confirming all launch components are accurate and complete
• Day- to-day project support to multiple account managers for different markets
• Analyze data in order to send out insight and wrap reports
• Attending client meetings and sending out recaps

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics

University of Delaware
Newark, DE
06-2019

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

University of Delaware
Newark, DE
06-2019

Skills

  • Media planning
  • Problem Solving
  • Campaign management
  • Performance optimization

Timeline

Senior Ad Operations Manager

Aki Technologies
01.2023 - Current

Ad Operations Manager

Aki Technologies
09.2021 - 01.2023

Associate Digital Campaign Manager

Townsquare Media
07.2020 - 09.2021

Digital Campaign Coordinator

Townsquare Media
11.2019 - 07.2020

Bachelor of Science - Economics

University of Delaware

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

University of Delaware
Megan McGuckin