Advertising Operations Specialist
At Bumble, we’re building the Love Company — a place where healthy, equitable relationships and friendships can start (and keep growing). The Growth Ads team helps bring that mission to more people by running high-quality, trustworthy advertising that respects our community and strengthens our brand.
As our Advertising Operations Specialist, you’ll be the calm, detail-obsessed engine behind scalable ad delivery: championing clean setups, reliable measurement, and smooth cross-functional ways of working. You’ll do this while living our values; showing Respect in every partner interaction, and Excellence in how you raise the bar on quality, accuracy, and integrity. This role supports the delivery and performance of our advertising across platforms. Helping manage direct advertising campaigns on Bumble while overseeing programmatic monetization on Badoo to ensure inventory is efficiently utilized and optimized.
• Troubleshoot technical issues related to delivery, creative rendering, ad tags, measurement discrepancies, and platform integrations.
• Partner closely with Growth, Sales/Partnerships, Marketing, Analytics, and Product to translate campaign goals into clean operational plans and take ownership from setup through reporting.
• Run pacing, creative rotations, and flight management for direct campaigns; proactively spot issues and resolve them before they impact performance or partner trust.
• Support and maintain programmatic partner relationships, helping troubleshoot delivery issues and ensure proper setup and performance.
• Analyze programmatic performance and drive indirect demand optimizations to improve yield and inventory utilization.
• Maintain and improve ad tech platform operations (e.g., ad server workflows, naming conventions, inventory/creative specs, troubleshooting, and documentation).
• Support measurement and reporting: ensure tracking is correctly implemented, performance is clearly communicated, and insights are actioned in an agile way.
• Help strengthen governance (brand safety, policy compliance, and operational controls) to protect the member experience and build long-term trust.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to streamline operational workflows (e.g., automated QA checks, anomaly detection, smarter reporting narratives), while keeping human judgment at the centre.
• Continuously improve processes: identify friction, simplify handoffs, and build scalable playbooks so the Ads team can move faster without sacrificing quality.
• Deliver clear, client-facing performance reports, translating campaign data into actionable insights for internal stakeholders and advertising partners.
• Own end of campaign reporting, including delivery summaries, performance insights, KPI commentary, and recommendations for future activation.
• Typically requires 4+ years of advertising operations experience; we may consider 3+ years for exceptional candidates with strong hands-on platform experience.
• You’re comfortable analyzing programmatic performance and making optimization decisions to improve yield and delivery.
• You’re fluent in performance measurement and reporting fundamentals; comfortable partnering with Analytics to define KPIs, validate tracking, and turn results into clear next steps.
• You’ve worked with ad tech operations and platform workflows (ad server and/or programmatic tooling), and you’re energised by making systems cleaner and more scalable.
• You collaborate with purpose: you communicate clearly across functions, set expectations early, and bring people along with empathy and Respect.
• You take ownership and see things through from insight to impact, especially when details are messy and priorities shift.
• You bring an agile mindset: you iterate fast, improve processes continuously, and stay calm under change.
• You’re comfortable using AI in day-to-day work (e.g., drafting partner updates, accelerating QA/reconciliation checks, exploring anomalies, or improving documentation), and you’re thoughtful about data privacy and accuracy.
About Us
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
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Inclusion at Bumble Inc.
Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
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AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring
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