Traffic Manager / Asst to VP of Sales – Nerve Media
July 24, 2007 3:49 PM

Nerve Media, the award-winning online publishing company, is looking for a full-time traffic manager with up to 2 years of experience in or exposure to online advertising. This person will become an integral part of Nerve Media’s expanding advertising department and will have opportunities to advance into ad sales and/or marketing.

The ad traffic manager will work closely with the ad sales department to execute successful online ad campaigns and enhance Nerve’s advertising relationships by providing exceptional service to our advertising clients. The winning candidate will also assist the VP of sales on all advertising campaigns and projects. We’re looking for a highly motivated, dynamic person who has a knack for detail, organization, patience and communication with others and is a problem solver.

The winning candidate must be someone who can deftly and diplomatically coordinate long-term, multi-faceted campaign projects, is comfortable switching back and forth between several tasks at once without making mistakes and has excellent time-management skills. This person will enjoy using numbers to solve problems but will also generate creative solutions on their own and, when that fails, is willing to work through issues with our third party ad serving customer service center. The winning candidate must be excited about the future of online media and a have desire to learn about interactive advertising.

The traffic manager will be responsible for assisting the VP of sales on all advertising campaigns, maintaining an advertising schedule, communicating with advertising clients and their traffic mangers throughout all stages of a campaign, uploading proposals into MediaVisor, Atlas, etc receiving and testing creatives, uploading and monitoring ads using 24/7 Real Media OAS, working to optimize campaign performances, compiling reports for clients, keeping track of advertising inventory, monitoring campaign delivery and handling insertion orders and payments. This person will also work with Nerve’s graphic designers to create and send Nerve Media’s weekly newsletters and dedicated emails. If an ad buy includes an event, such as a film screening, premiere or party, the traffic manager will help our graphic designers create the invitation, will be responsible for sending the invite and will work with our event planners to make sure the event goes smoothly. The ad trafficker will also coordinate with our IT department to create new methods of ad delivery and refine existing ones. This person will also perform some additional assistant level activities for the advertising sales staff.

Nerve Media offers a casual but very hard-working environment with great opportunities for advancement. As part of our small, driven team you will be immersed in online advertising and gain valuable experience.

Skills: Candidates must be skilled in Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Word and so on. Knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, extremely helpful. Photoshop and Flash background also helpful.

Compensation: Base salary of $40,000 to $50,000, depending on level of experience, plus bonuses and benefits.

Special Instructions: Please email cover letter and resume to trafficmanagerposition@nerve.com with subject line TRAFFIC MANAGER. (If your subject line doesn’t say Traffic Manager we might miss your email.)
No phone calls please.


payscale: Base salary of $40,000 to $50,000 plus bonuses and benefits
job type: full-time
posted by Sarah_Nerve to Marketing/Advertising/PR

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