Ad Operations Manager

Job Description

Description

CrazyGames is a leading browser games platform, serving millions of users worldwide. We leverage innovative advertising technologies to optimize monetization while delivering a seamless gaming experience to more than 40M users, every month. As we continue to expand, we’re looking for a Programmatic Manager to join our small but mighty Ad Monetization team, taking charge of our advertising operations, ensuring efficiency, optimization, and growth in our ad revenue streams.

Key Outcomes for this role

• Within 1 month

  • You have an understanding of CrazyGames’ product, ad tech stack, partners and internal workflows

  • You are able to navigate our ad server and reporting tools independently

  • You start supporting campaign setup and basic troubleshooting

• Within 3 months

  • You’ve reviewed our current setup (covering floors, partners, auction dynamics, latency, and a deep dive into Google Ad Manager) and identified immediate opportunities to increase revenue.

  • You actively manage incoming requests, including campaign trafficking, troubleshooting, and partner communication

  • You begin optimizing yield by adjusting floors, demand allocation, and setup

  • You build a strong understanding of performance across key segments (os, geo, device, format)

• Within 6 months

  • You are independently driving yield optimization across our programmatic stack (floors, SSP mix, auction dynamics)

  • You ensure reliable delivery of direct campaigns, working closely with leadership

  • You proactively identify and fix revenue leakage, discrepancies, and performance issues

  • You contribute to improving our ad stack setup (latency, structure, scalability)

• Within 12 months

  • You own yield performance end-to-end and are a key driver of revenue growth

  • You lead strategic optimization initiatives (e.g. new demand integrations, advanced floor strategies, format-level improvements)

  • You are a trusted partner to leadership on monetization strategy and execution

What we offer

• A lot of responsibility and freedom. We hire experts and trust them to deliver excellent results

• Flexible working hours and location. The results are what count!

• Team weeks: we organize a week somewhere in Europe once or twice per year. We pay for transport and accommodation so you can have fun with the team

The opportunity to play games and claim its work

Requirements

Reach out if

• You have relevant experience in a similar role, either at a Publisher, Agency or an Ad Tech company

• You are the most nosy and inquisitive person, wanting to understand how everything works and how you can make it better

• You communicate clearly and can translate technical concepts into actionable insights

• You are intelligent, efficient, pragmatic, and organized

• You are comfortable working cross-functionally with product, engineering, data, and sales teams

• Confident in your knowledge of programmatic advertising (e.g. DSPs, SSPs, ID solutions, CMPs) and how all the pieces fit together

• You have hands-on experience with ad servers (GAM) and programmatic setups (header bidding, SSP integrations)

• You have a strong understanding of programmatic advertising (SSPs, DSPs, auctions, identity, privacy frameworks) and how the ecosystem fits together

• You have an eye for detail and for the big picture. You can quickly spot patterns in large amounts of data and love some detective work if your gut tells you that something is wrong

• You have a deep understanding of the advertising market, including the programmatic market

• You have a genuine interest in web gaming and are excited about building monetization systems for gaming experiences.

• Please note that we’re looking for candidates in Europe (including the UK!), Africa or the Middle East, in order to have enough time to overlap with Europe (where most of our team is).