Senior Product Operations Manager, Ads

About Tubi:

Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation.

About the Role:

As the Senior Product Operations Manager for Ads, you will be the strategic leader at the intersection of our commercial and technical teams. Your mission is to establish and run a highly efficient "deal desk" that manages the lifecycle of advertising deals, from initial insertion order to on-air flighting. You will be the central quarterback, responsible for creating a seamless operational framework that balances revenue generation with a delightful user experience. You will be at the center of our monetization strategy, collaborating closely with Revenue Operations, Sales, Product, Engineering, and QA, to ensure our ad products are executed flawlessly and thoughtfully.

This is a hybrid role based out of either our SF, LA, or NYC office. The hybrid schedule is 3 days a week

What You'll Do:

• Establish the Ads Deal Desk: Design, implement, and lead a centralized process for the intake, review, and approval of all incoming ad deals and insertion orders, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders.
• Quarterback Cross-Functional Execution: Serve as the primary driver and coordinator between Sales, Revenue Operations, Product, Engineering, and QA to manage the successful flighting and delivery of ad campaigns.
• Champion User Experience: Partner with the Product team to establish and enforce guardrails that protect user engagement, ensuring that ad implementations do not detract from the viewer experience.
• Analyze Revenue and Engagement Trade-offs: Assess the ROI of ad deals, making smart, data-informed decisions that weigh revenue opportunities against potential impacts on user engagement and retention.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Create and maintain the end-to-end operational playbook for ad campaign execution, identifying bottlenecks and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and communication.
• Lead Stakeholder Alignment: Foster exceptional cross-functional relationships, ensuring that teams from legal to engineering are aligned on priorities, timelines, and execution requirements for ad products.
• Own Strategic Communication: Serve as the central point of communication for all ad operations initiatives, providing clear visibility into deal status, campaign performance, and process changes to all relevant teams.
• Deal Velocity: A marked reduction in the time it takes for an ad deal to move from submission to going live on Tubi.
• Operational Efficiency: The successful implementation of a streamlined and well-documented deal desk process, resulting in reduced friction and rework between teams.
• Revenue & Engagement Balance: Successful execution of campaigns that meet or exceed revenue goals without negatively impacting key user engagement metrics.Navigate Complex Ad-Tech Landscapes: Work closely with legal and product teams to ensure all ad campaigns adhere to stringent compliance, privacy, and brand-safety requirements.

How We'll Measure Success

• Deal Velocity: A marked reduction in the time it takes for an ad deal to move from submission to going live on Tubi.
• Operational Efficiency: The successful implementation of a streamlined and well-documented deal desk process, resulting in reduced friction and rework between teams.
• Revenue & Engagement Balance: Successful execution of campaigns that meet or exceed revenue goals without negatively impacting key user engagement metrics.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction: Consistently positive feedback from Sales, Product, Engineering, and Revenue Operations on the clarity, responsiveness, and effectiveness of the ad operations process.

Your Background:

• You have 5+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or a similar strategic role within a fast-paced tech environment.
• You have a deep understanding of the ad-tech ecosystem, with hands-on experience in digital advertising operations.
• You are an exceptional cross-functional leader with a proven track record of quarterbacking complex initiatives between commercial and technical teams.
• You are exceptionally organized and have experience building and scaling new processes from the ground up.
• You possess strong analytical and strategic skills, with the ability to articulate complex trade-offs between business and user-facing metrics.
• You are a master of execution and stakeholder management, skilled in driving alignment, eliminating blockers, and ensuring end-to-end project success.
• You excel at translating complex operational needs into scalable, durable processes and are a natural collaborator with Sales, Product, Engineering, Legal, and business stakeholders.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.

High cost labor markets such as but not limited to Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco

$152,600—$217,900 USD

Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:

• For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
• For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
• For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX's short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
• For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.