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# Ad Operations Specialist at Taboola

- **Company:** Taboola
- **Location:** Gurugram, India
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://www.taboola.com/careers/job/8009666?gh_jid=8009666

## Job description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As an Ad Operations Specialist on the Ad Operations team in our Gurugram office, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the seamless setup, execution, optimization, and delivery of digital advertising campaigns. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams including Account Management, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver exceptional client outcomes through operational excellence and technical expertise.

This is an exciting opportunity to deepen your understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, leverage AI-powered solutions, and contribute to innovative initiatives that improve campaign performance, operational efficiency, and customer success.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

- 2+ years of experience in Digital Marketing, Ad Operations, Programmatic Advertising, or the Ad Technology industry.
- Strong understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, including DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, Ad Exchanges, Ad Servers, and RTB fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with campaign trafficking, optimization, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring across display, native, and video advertising platforms.
- Good understanding of digital advertising KPIs and pricing models including CPM, vCPM, CPC, CPCV, CPA, CPA Goal, ROAS, and CPC Goal.
- Strong analytical mindset with proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Index-Match, advanced formulas, data analysis, and reporting).
- Working knowledge of SQL for querying, validating, analyzing, and troubleshooting campaign, advertiser, and performance datasets. Ability to write basic to intermediate SQL queries involving filtering, joins, aggregations, and data validation will be highly preferred.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate campaign delivery issues and identify root causes using data.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across global teams.

Bonus points if you have:

- Experience working with DSPs and advertising platforms such as Taboola’s Realize DSP, Google Ad Manager (GAM), Google Ads, DV360, The Trade Desk (TTD), Outbrain, or other programmatic buying platforms.
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, or browser debugging tools for troubleshooting tracking pixels, impression/click trackers, and website integrations.
- Experience working with AI-powered productivity tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar LLMs for process automation, reporting, documentation, campaign troubleshooting, workflow optimization, or operational efficiency.
- Exposure to workflow automation, prompt engineering, AI-assisted reporting, or internal AI initiatives will be considered an added advantage.
- Knowledge of APIs, tagging, tracking implementations, or third-party measurement solutions is a plus.

## How you'll make an impact

As an Ad Operations Specialist, you'll bring value by:

- Setting up, managing, monitoring, and optimizing display, native, and video advertising campaigns across Taboola's advertising platforms while ensuring high execution quality.
- Managing campaign setup and execution on Taboola's DSP (Realize) while ensuring campaign delivery aligns with client objectives and platform best practices.
- Performing comprehensive QA checks to ensure flawless campaign launches, tracking implementation, creative rendering, and campaign delivery.
- Monitoring campaign health, pacing, budget utilization, and delivery to proactively identify optimization opportunities.
- Troubleshooting campaign delivery, tracking, targeting, and technical issues while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams when required.
- Analyzing campaign performance data and preparing actionable reports that help internal stakeholders and clients improve campaign outcomes.
- Leveraging SQL and analytical tools to investigate campaign performance, validate data, identify anomalies, and support operational decision-making.
- Utilizing AI tools and automation opportunities to improve reporting quality, streamline operational workflows, enhance productivity, and reduce manual effort.
- Collaborating closely with Account Management, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver exceptional customer experience.
- Contributing to process improvement initiatives, documentation, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence projects.
- Staying up to date with emerging trends in digital advertising, programmatic technologies, AI, privacy regulations, and Ad Tech innovations.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”

- Well-being: Competitive benefits and a supportive work environment
- Flexibility: Hybrid work model that encourages both in-office collaboration and remote productivity
- Work with industry leaders: Taboola partners with leading publishers and advertisers to deliver results at scale

Ready to realize your potential?

It’s easy! Submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below. Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

## About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Taboola to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

By submitting your application/CV, any personal information you provide will be subject to [Taboola’s Candidates Data Policy.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xGUsWhxYqvc6yUpJMcYgyLsJXtJV2UsM/edit) Please review our policy carefully before submitting any of your personal information. You may contact us at privacy@taboola.com with any questions about how we collect or use your personal information, or your applicable rights.

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## About Taboola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital advertising / Ad tech (content recommendation, native advertising, performance marketing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – publishers and advertisers of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises
- **Mission or purpose**: To help people discover what’s next and enable advertisers to reach audiences at scale on the open web.

## Products & Services
- **Realize**: Performance advertising platform that uses Taboola’s unique data and reach to drive high-intent conversions beyond search and social.
- **Taboola Feed**: In-feed native ad placements integrated into publisher content streams.
- **DeeperDive**: Contextual targeting solution that matches ads to article content.
- **Taboola News**: Ad placements within mobile news apps and home screens.
- **Taboola for Audience**: Audience extension and retargeting product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: ~$1.14 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $1.9 billion (2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fidelity (led Series E), Yahoo (post-IPO equity), Evergreen Venture Partners. Key partnerships include major publishers and Yahoo.
- **Growth Signals**: 7.9% YoY employee growth (1,634 employees), 39 countries of operation, strong hiring despite market conditions, multiple Great Place to Work certifications globally.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-driven platform**: Heavy investment in machine learning for contextual targeting and performance optimization, differentiating from legacy click-driven native ads.
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest content recommendation networks on the open web, serving billions of recommendations daily.
- **Data moat**: Proprietary user-engagement data across a vast publisher network enables superior ad targeting.
- **Strong publisher relationships**: Long-term contracts with top media sites create a defensible supply-side advantage.

## Strategic Focus
- **Moving beyond native advertising**: Evolving into a full-fledged performance advertising platform (Realize) to compete with Google and Meta in the open web.
- **AI investment**: Continued R&D to improve ad relevance and ROI for advertisers.
- **Expansion into new verticals and geographies**: Growing presence in emerging markets and diversifying product offerings (e.g., Taboola News).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Consistently rated a top workplace – 4.2/5 on Glassdoor, certified Great Place to Work in 10 countries, Fortune Best Workplaces in NYC and Advertising & Marketing (2024, 2025), Built In Best Workplace (2024–2026). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 3 days in office, 2 remote (with flexibility to be in office more). Flexible Time Off (FTO) built on trust.
- **Perks**: Daily lunch credits or catered meals, stocked kitchens, wellness zones, game rooms, gender-neutral restrooms. Biannual performance reviews, internal mobility, and promotion from within.
- **Engineering culture**: 436 technical employees (21% of workforce), strong R&D presence in Israel (662 employees). Managers and specialists make up the largest seniority groups, offering clear growth paths.
- **Leadership**: CEO Adam Singolda has 91% approval on Glassdoor; monthly all-hands with transparent Q&A.

## Sources
1. [taboola.com – Careers](https://www.taboola.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com – Taboola Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taboola)
3. [builtin.com – Workplace Perception FAQ](https://builtin.com/company/taboola/faq/workplace-perception)
4. [taboola.com – Homepage](https://www.taboola.com/)
5. [taboola.com – Jobs Search](https://www.taboola.com/careers/jobs)

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