Advertising Operations Associate

Applecart; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Applecart is seeking an Advertising Operations Associate in New York City or Washington, DC to join the Media Activation and Operations team. You will execute media campaigns for clients and help build scalable processes. This role reports to the Director of Media within the team.

Responsibilities include trafficking across programmatic and social platforms, collaborating with internal teams, and driving data-driven optimizations. Hybrid work model applies.

Qualifications

• 2+ years trafficking programmatic campaigns.
• 1+ years trafficking on social platforms.
• Experience with DSPs and advertising agencies.
• Ability to work cross functionally with account teams.

Responsibilities

• Traffic campaigns across platforms (programmatic, Meta, X, LinkedIn, etc).
• Set up, monitor, and optimize campaigns targeting custom audiences across platforms.
• Work with internal teams to ensure reporting needs are met and troubleshoot.
• Test and develop scalable workflows, processes and best practices.
• Make recommendations to optimize campaigns to meet client goals.
• Communicate campaign status with internal teams during launch and run.

Skills

Programmatic trafficking

Social ads trafficking

Cross-functional work

Attention to detail

DSPs & ad platforms

Tools

CM360

Meta Ads Manager

LinkedIn Ads Manager

Twitter/X Ads

Job description

About Us

About Us

Applecart is the leading technology company that C-suites rely on to reach business-critical decision makers. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders who matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business-critical decision makers and those they trust — from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those who matter most to them.

We are hiring an Advertising Operations Associate in our New York City or Washington, DC office.

About The Role

As an Advertising Operations Associate, you will be an important member of the Media Activation and Operations team to execute media campaigns for Applecart clients and help build out scalable processes. This person will use their expertise and experience working across teams within the organization to deliver successful campaigns for managed clients.

This role will report to the Director of Media within the Media Activation and Operations team.

What You’ll Do

• Traffic campaigns across platforms (programmatic, Meta, X, LinkedIn, etc).
• Set up, monitor, and optimize campaigns targeting custom audiences across platforms (programmatic, Meta, X, LinkedIn, etc).
• Work with various internal teams to ensure all reporting needs are met for the client and troubleshoot when necessary.
• Test and develop processes, workflows, best practices, etc that are scalable and work across internal and external teams.
• Make recommendations on optimizations for client campaigns to ensure campaigns meet agreed upon client goals.
• Communicate with internal teams on campaign status and any updates as they come up during campaign launch and while campaign is running.

Experiences And Capabilities You Bring

• 2+ years of experience in trafficking and building awareness and consideration campaigns for programmatic, and 1+ years trafficking on social platforms.
• Ability to work cross functionally with account teams and other internal partners.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with external partners like DSPs and agencies.
• Experience working with more than one DSP, CM360, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Ads Manager, Twitter/X Ads.
• Enthusiasm for developing scalable processes and improving team efficiency.
• Nice to Have: High-level understanding of custom-list targeting and the nuances of reaching individuals 1-to-1 through digital advertising.

This is a hybrid role. Work from home on Monday and Friday and in Applecart’s New York City or Washington, DC office Tuesday through Thursday.

Compensation

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $70,000-$90,000, based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the NYC or Washington, DC area.

A Few Facts About Us

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier advertising and communications agencies like Teneo, FGS, Weber Shandwick, and OMD.
• Applecart is growing quickly — over the last 4 years, we’ve increased our revenue by 10X, grown our headcount by almost 5X, and we’re cashflow positive.
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, early sales and talent leaders from Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain & Company, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Applecart raised a $100M Series C from Blackstone’s tech growth fund at the end of 2025. The company’s other investors include Bain & Company, global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO and Executive Chairman of WME, Wayne Berman, Blackstone’s Head of Global Government Affairs, and Risa Heller, CEO of HELLER, serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV, and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, Semafor, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.