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Advertising and ad operations resume example

A person in this job plans, buys and runs ad campaigns, or works on the systems that sell and show ads. Below: an example to start from, and what 194 open postings for this work ask for today.

Alex Example

Paid Media Manager

City, Country · [email protected]

Summary

Paid Media Manager with five years of experience in marketing and communications. Strongest in campaign set-up, bidding and creative testing.

Skills

campaign set-up, bidding, creative testing, measurement, budgeting, SQL

Experience

Paid Media Manager, Example Company 2022 – now

  • Managed $3M a year across search, social and video with a return of $4.20 for every $1 spent
  • Tested 200 adverts a quarter; the best cut the cost of a sign-up by 31%
  • Set up conversion tracking that matched finance’s numbers within 3%

Paid Media Manager, Another Example Ltd 2020 – 2022

  • Moved 20% of the budget to two new channels that now bring a quarter of sign-ups

Education

Bachelor’s degree, Example University 2016 – 2020

Example. The person, the employers and the numbers are invented; replace them with yours.

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194Open jobs today
42%Can be done from home
$236KMedian advertised pay

What employers ask for

Postings for this work rarely name tools. They describe duties, so show results in the same words the posting uses for its duties.

Titles employers use

Growth Marketing Lead, Programmatic & Video; Staff Data Scientist, Ads; Trust and Safety Policy, Ads Policy, Lead (Europe); ABM Campaign Manager; Senior Advertising Account Executive; Software Engineer II, Fullstack (Ads Platform).

Make it yours

  1. Keep the form, change every fact. A verb first, what changed, one number.
  2. Use the posting’s words. The match checker shows which of them your resume lacks.
  3. Put the strongest result first. The resume review tells you what a first read finds.

Questions about an advertising and ad operations resume

Which skills should an advertising and ad operations resume list?
What the work consists of: campaign set-up, bidding, creative testing, measurement, budgeting. Postings for this work describe duties more than tools, so use the posting’s own words for each duty and put a result next to it.
How long should it be?
One page for up to ten years of experience, two at most. The first third of the first page decides whether the rest is read.
Is this example a real person?
No. The name, the employers and the numbers are invented to show the form: a verb first, one result, one number. Replace every line with your own.

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