Senior Manager, Ad Quality

Yahoo is seeking a Senior Manager, Ad Quality to lead and evolve global ad quality operations across display, video, and native ad environments. This role is essential to protecting Yahoo’s users, partners, and brand reputation while maximizing revenue opportunities. The manager will oversee a distributed ad quality function responsible for identifying and blocking policy-violating ads, managing vendor partnerships for ad performance, and ensuring a safe, viewable, and high-quality ad environment.

Must Have

• Lead global ad quality operations team
• Enforce ad policies across programmatic and direct channels
• Manage vendor partnerships for ad quality and performance
• Oversee ad verification and content suitability metrics
• Prevent malware and malicious ad activity
• Drive improvements in ad quality tooling and processes
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Business Development
• 8+ years in digital advertising, ad operations, or trust & safety
• 3+ years in people management
• Expertise in ad verification, brand safety, and policy enforcement
• Proven vendor relationship management skills
• Strong analytical, operational, and communication abilities

Good to Have

• Experience leading or managing offshore or remote teams
• Familiarity with Google Ad Manager, DSP/SSP ecosystems, and native ad platforms

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work options
• Healthcare benefits
• 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo is seeking a Senior Manager, Ad Quality to lead and evolve our global ad quality operations across display, video, and native ad environments. This role is essential to protecting Yahoo’s users, partners, and brand reputation while maximizing revenue opportunities across our advertising ecosystem.

You will oversee a distributed ad quality function responsible for identifying and blocking ads that violate policy, managing vendor partnerships that measure and safeguard ad performance, and ensuring Yahoo maintains a safe, viewable, and high-quality ad environment.

Responsibilities:

Ad Policy Enforcement & Monitoring:

• Lead an offshore Ad Quality Operations team that monitors and blocks ads in violation of Yahoo’s ad policies (malware, deceptive content, inappropriate creatives, etc.).
• Develop frameworks and workflows to detect, triage, and prevent policy-violating ads at scale across Yahoo’s programmatic and direct channels.
• Balance protection and monetization by guiding the team to ensure minimal overblocking while maintaining strict compliance and user safety.

Native & Partner Ad Quality Oversight:

• Manage Partnerships, ensuring that policies and user experience standards are consistently enforced.
• Collaborate closely with partners and internal policy, product, and operations teams to drive continual improvements in ad experience and yield.

Ad & Content Quality Measurement:

• Lead oversight of Yahoo’s third-party ad verification vendors, ensuring optimal performance on viewability, invalid traffic (IVT), and content suitability metrics.
• Partner with analytics, operations, and monetization teams to translate vendor insights into actionable improvements that enhance advertiser confidence and revenue quality.

Security & Anti-Malvertising:

• Own the strategic relationship with security vendors to prevent malware, redirects, and other malicious ad activity across Yahoo’s properties.
• Coordinate incident response and mitigation plans with Security, Product, and Engineering when threats are detected.

Leadership & Strategy:

• Drive continuous improvement in ad quality tooling, processes, and KPIs.
• Provide strategic input into Yahoo’s ad policy roadmap and content classification frameworks.
• Mentor, develop, and empower team members to operate efficiently across geographies.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Business Development to ensure Yahoo’s ad environment is compliant, brand-safe, and high-performing

Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in digital advertising, ad operations, or trust & safety, with at least 3+ years in people management.
• Deep understanding of ad verification, brand safety, malvertising, and policy enforcement workflows.
• Experience managing vendor relationships (e.g., IAS, DV, HUMAN, Taboola, MOAT, GeoEdge).
• Strong analytical and operational skills; ability to use data to inform policy and process decisions.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Legal, Engineering, and Revenue teams.
• Experience leading or managing offshore or remote teams preferred.
• Familiarity with Google Ad Manager, DSP/SSP ecosystems, and native ad platforms a strong plus.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $110,625.00 - $230,625.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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