Media Operations Analyst, OpenAI Ads – Remote
The Media Operations Analyst at Confidential Client supports the emerging OpenAI Ads initiative by managing and optimizing AI-driven advertising campaigns. This entry-level, contract-to-hire role involves campaign execution, experimentation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to scale innovative marketing programs in a fast-evolving digital advertising environment.
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About the Role
Confidential Client is hiring an entry-level Media Operations Analyst to join a performance marketing team supporting an emerging OpenAI Ads initiative. This is a contract-to-hire, remote role focused on operating, testing, measuring, and scaling a new AI-driven advertising channel. It’s ideal for a recent graduate or early-career candidate with strong analytical instincts, curiosity about AI advertising, and hands-on technical aptitude.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor campaign performance and surface issues, anomalies, risks, and opportunities.
- Build, launch, QA, and maintain campaigns across emerging AI advertising surfaces.
- Develop audiences, personas, context hints, prompts, and targeting strategies to support scalable growth.
- Write, test, and refine ad creative, messaging, prompts, and landing-page concepts.
- Make budget, pacing, and campaign adjustments based on performance signals and business priorities.
- Support conversion tracking, tagging, measurement, and data quality checks.
- Build and improve reporting to help the team understand performance and identify opportunities.
- Design and analyze experiments across prompts, targeting, creative, landing experiences, audiences, and funnels.
- Translate results into clear hypotheses, recommendations, and repeatable playbooks.
- Identify automation and process-improvement opportunities to speed execution.
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Analytics, Engineering, Creative, Product, category teams, Business Development, and external platform partners.
Who You Are / Capabilities
- Curiosity-driven and comfortable operating without an established playbook.
- Fast-moving with strong attention to detail and reliable follow-through.
- Analytical problem-solver who can diagnose performance changes and recommend next steps.
- Comfortable working directly with data and using performance signals to inform decisions.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, able to turn ambiguous problems into clear tests and actions.
- Good written and verbal communicator who can explain technical findings to diverse stakeholders.
- Organized and able to manage multiple workflows without losing accuracy.
- Eager to learn, experiment, and iterate in a rapidly evolving platform environment.
Professional Competencies & Tools
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Deep curiosity about AI, search behavior, digital advertising, and emerging marketing ecosystems.
- Proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets (required).
- Familiarity with SQL and/or Python is highly valuable.
- Experience or exposure to reporting, analytics, or automation tools (e.g., Zapier, Tableau, Looker) is helpful.
- Working knowledge of performance marketing concepts, conversion funnels, experimentation, and measurement.
- Commercially minded: focused on revenue, conversion quality, and efficient growth.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Recent graduate or early-career candidate with strong analytical fundamentals and interest in performance marketing, AI, data, or digital growth.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills required.
- Ability to begin the workday around 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time to provide meaningful overlap with teams in the United States, Europe, and India.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Employment Details
- Employment type: Full-time (starts as contract-to-hire).
- Location: Remote (telecommute). Role supports teams across multiple time zones — early Eastern overlap required.
- Industry: PR, Advertising & Marketing
What We Offer
- Hands-on experience launching and scaling an AI-native advertising channel.
- Close collaboration with analytics, engineering, creative, and product teams.
- Fast learning curve and opportunity to shape processes and playbooks from the ground up.
- A supportive environment for experimentation and professional growth.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
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