Paid Media Operations Manager (Contractor) | Irvine, CA or Remote (US)

Blizzard Entertainment • Irvine, CA

1d • $30 - $56 • Hybrid

About The Position

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a Paid Media Operations Manager to temporarily support the Paid Media team in Irvine, CA. This temporary contractor will report to the Sr. Manager, PMO Growth Marketing, and enable high-impact, industry-leading digital campaigns by driving campaign operations during an upcoming period of increased campaign activity. Responsibilities have a strong emphasis on ensuring creative assets are delivered accurately, on time, and in accordance with established operational requirements. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, highly organized, and thrives in a cross-functional environment. If you have a passion for gaming and are looking to deepen your expertise in campaign operations within a fast-moving, collaborative team, we encourage you to apply! NOTE: This is an anticipated 12-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

• 5+ years of recent paid media operations, campaign operations, or creative project management experience required
• Ability to become productive quickly and contribute effectively in a contract-based role with defined project timelines and deliverables
• Strong project management skills; able to manage complex workflows and drive deliverables across multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-growth team environment
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong QA instincts
• Flexibility to support occasional evening or weekend work during peak campaign periods

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for paid media creative operations across global paid marketing, brand, creative, and agency partners
• Successfully manage end-to-end creative operations for paid media campaigns, including intake, scoping, QA, and delivery of all asset deliverables (e.g., spec sheets, creative briefs, trackers, and final assets)
• Oversee copy development workflows from intake through approvals, localization handoff, and activation readiness
• Drive alignment across stakeholders on timelines, deliverables, and priorities across concurrent creative workstreams
• Facilitate timely and actionable creative feedback cycles that drive stakeholder alignment, maintain quality standards, and ensure on-time execution
• Route all assets and copies through the required approval processes, including legal and ESRB
• Coordinate the timely delivery of approved assets to regional teams for localization
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and downstream impacts related to timeline or scope changes, and communicate mitigation plans
• Own and improve paid media operational workflows, implementing scalable solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and cross-functional collaboration
• Support optimization of tools and systems (e.g. trackers, asset repositories, project management systems) to improve operational visibility and rigor

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, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• Relocation assistance (if required to move geographic locations)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed