Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Hearst Television is seeking a Campaign Specialist to be responsible for executing, optimizing, and reporting on digital advertising campaigns across a variety of channels. This role ensures that campaigns deliver against performance goals, meet client expectations, and leverage best-in-class targeting, creative, and measurement tactics. This role reports to the Senior Campaign Manager.

This role requires in-office presence. Candidates may be considered for this role at any Hearst Television location.

Key Responsibilities

• Campaign Execution & Management
  • Coordinate with internal and offshore trafficking teams to set up, launch, and manage campaigns across multiple ad servers and DSPs.
  • Oversee trafficking, QA, and pacing to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
  • Troubleshoot campaign issues (tracking, tags, pixels, discrepancies, and pacing) and coordinate resolution with trafficking teams as needed.
  • Collaborate with local sales managers and station leads through regular check-ins to review campaign pipeline, pacing, performance, and address day-to-day questions.
  • Provide technical support across products, including On-Site, Audience Extension, Social, and Native.
  • Monitor daily performance and implement optimization strategies to improve KPIs (CTR, CPA, ROAS, video completion rates, viewability, etc.).
  • Deliver strategic insights and optimization recommendations aligned with client objectives, and work with trafficking teams to execute changes.

• Reporting & Insights
  
  • Produce weekly and ad hoc performance reports with insights, trends, and actionable recommendations.
  • Present results to internal teams and clients with clear, data-driven narratives.
  • Identify and disseminate learnings that inform future campaign strategies and proposals.
  • Partner with Finance and Operations to support monthly billing and resolve discrepancies.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience managing digital advertising campaigns.
• Proficient with major ad platforms Google Ad Manager (GAM), Meta, DV360 or other DSPs, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with metrics, dashboards, and Excel/Google Sheets.
• Experience with trafficking, pixels, UTMs, and third-party tracking tools.
• Excellent communication and project-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines simultaneously.
• Familiarity with brand-safety tools, verification platforms, and attribution systems.
• Agency, publisher, or large media-organization experience.
• Understanding of SEO/SEM, social strategy, and content marketing.

Values in Action

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is between $75,000 and $95,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, market demands and conditions, including geographic location where the work will be performed, and other factors permitted by law. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

ABOUT US

Hearst Television (HTV) owns and/or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. we do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national, origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.