UK Advertising Operations Specialist

About the role and team
Uber Advertising is looking for an Advertising Operations Specialist to support some of the biggest QSR brands and their agencies across our growing ads business in the UK, with a primary focus on Sponsored Listings and other biddable advertising solutions. In this role, you will hold operational responsibility for the UK premium book of business.
In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert for advertisers, agencies, and internal teams, helping translate advertiser objectives into effective campaign strategies and ensuring strong, sustainable performance. You will advise on campaign planning and implementation, monitor campaign health, troubleshoot performance and technical issues, and identify opportunities to improve advertiser outcomes and maximize their investment with Uber.
You will be an integral part of the EMEA Campaign & Creative Services team, carrying the responsibility of driving end-to-end campaign execution, optimisation and revenue growth for the UK Enterprise vertical for Uber Advertising. The role ensures flawless campaign delivery, performance excellence and operational scalability.
The ideal candidate combines strong knowledge of sponsored advertising with analytical and client-facing skills.
What you’ll do
Lead the planning, launch and optimisation of multi-tier and multi-surface ad campaigns with different strategies, ensuring delivery against performance and revenue goals.
Monitor performance metrics, conduct root cause analysis and implement data-driven strategies to maximise efficiencies aligned with campaign goals and advertiser KPIs.
Partner with Ad Sales as the primary operational POC, providing performance insights, troubleshooting delivery issues and identifying upsell opportunities.
Lead Campaign & Creative Services cadences, aligning cross-functional stakeholders on pipeline visibility and execution priorities.
Coordinate with offshore, Product, Engineering, and Analytics teams to improve processes, scale operations and enhance campaign implementation and delivery.
Contribute to regional roadmap initiatives and continuous operational improvement, aligned with industry best practices and standards.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Proven experience working in the digital advertising industry
High standards with attention to detail, strong analytical skills and a bias toward action
Minimum of 2-4 years in Ad Operations, AdTech/digital advertising or equivalent experience at a data-driven, tech savvy company
Hands on experience managing and optimizing digital advertising campaigns with significant budgets (+$100K)
Experience working in the UK market with advertisers in different industries
Preferred Qualifications
Nice to have: Salesforce Media Cloud and SQL proficiency