Associate Activation Specialist (Contractor) | Irvine, CA
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an Associate Activation Specialist to temporarily support the Paid Media team in Irvine, CA. In this role, you will report to the Senior Manager, Activation, and provide planning and executional support during an upcoming period of increased campaign activity. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, a team player, and eager to grow their skills in paid advertising. If you have a passion for gaming and enjoy a high-growth, collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply! NOTE: This is an anticipated 6-month assignment. The candidate will ideally be based in Irvine. This is a contingent worker position and will be staffed through Volt, a staffing and workforce management company.
Requirements
- 2+ years of recent hands-on experience activating Paid Social and/or Programmatic campaigns required
- Ability to become productive quickly and contribute effectively in a contract-based role with defined project timelines and deliverables
- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment
- Strong Excel and analytical skills; able to extract actionable insights from complex data sets
- Strong communication skills and a solutions-oriented mindset
- Capable of managing multiple projects with competing deadlines
- Comfortable managing large budgets/investment levels
- Flexibility to support occasional evening or weekend work during peak campaign periods
Nice To Haves
- Certification in paid media platforms such as Meta, Reddit, TikTok, Google Ads, Snap
- Passionate gamer with knowledge of Blizzard games, products, and services
Responsibilities
- Support the successful planning, build, and launch of upcoming paid media campaigns across programmatic and social platforms such as Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, and Snap
- Execute campaign trafficking, QA, and ad operations workflows with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness, including launching new assets and copy, generating screenshots and QA’ing live links for adherence to safe zones
- Leverage dashboards and other available reporting tools to monitor daily pacing and evaluate the performance of active campaigns
- Contribute to weekly performance reporting, making data-driven optimization recommendations to improve performance against KPIs such as ROAS, CPA, CAC, efficient reach, views, and brand lift
- Support vendor billing and financial tracking processes to ensure accurate campaign reconciliation
- Participate in larger team projects on the future of media buying and activation
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- health savings account or health reimbursement account
- healthcare spending accounts
- dependent care spending accounts
- life and AD&D insurance
- disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match
- tuition reimbursement
- charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation
- paid sick time
- floating holidays
- compassion and bereavement leaves
- parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs
- fitness programs
- free and discounted games
- supplemental life & disability
- legal service
- ID protection
- rental insurance
- relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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