# Director of Ad Platform Operations

Hiring organization: [Duolingo](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/duolingo)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1112cff6-8713-47e4-a3b7-a58194a07568

Listed on Duolingo's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Director
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Salary: 196000 – 294000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the technical operations and strategic direction of Duolingo's advertising platform, managing the infrastructure, processes, and teams that support both direct-sold and programmatic ad delivery. This role suits experienced ad operations leaders ready to scale a publisher's programmatic business from open-auction to premium, deal-focused models while maintaining operational excellence.

_Our summary, not Duolingo's wording._

## Skills named

Programmatic Advertising

## Required

- 8+ years in digital advertising, AdOps, or technical advertising solutions
- Deep hands-on expertise in Google Ad Manager, trafficking, QA, troubleshooting, pacing, and campaign delivery across direct and programmatic channels
- Experience working directly with buyers, DSPs, SSPs, or publisher-side programmatic teams to resolve technical campaign issues
- Proven ability to build or scale operational systems including SLA-based workflows, escalation paths, and QA processes
- Cross-functional partnership experience with Sales, Account Management, Product, Engineering, and Data teams

## Nice to have

- Experience scaling a premium publisher or consumer app from open-auction programmatic toward deal-led PMP/PG models
- Knowledge of video and mobile app ad products including viewability, click tracking, and creative QA
- Experience managing globally distributed operations support or external vendor partners

Apply on Duolingo's site: https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8700582002?gh_jid=8700582002