Program Manager, Vendor Operations

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United Kingdom · Remote · Sales Strategy & Operations

Program Manager for Vendor Operations within Reddit's GTM Strategy & Operations organization, focusing on efficient ad review processes to reduce delays and improve advertiser/seller experience. This role involves managing vendor relationships, handling escalations, strengthening quality controls, and optimizing operational workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee day-to-day vendor operations: Monitor KPIs, SLAs, quality metrics, and agent output to help ensure ad review work is executed consistently and efficiently.
  2. Manage vendor relationships: Serve as a primary point of contact for vendor partners, build strong working relationships, conduct regular business reviews, and address operational or performance issues as they arise.
  3. Own sales escalations: Act as an escalation point for time-sensitive, complex ad review issues affecting Sales and advertisers, and turn recurring themes into actionable insights that improve processes over time.
  4. Strengthen escalation and quality controls: Support clear escalation paths and quality control processes for ad review, and help ensure teams are working against well-defined standards.
  5. Translate policy into execution: Turn policy guidelines into clear enforcement checks, training, and workflow documentation for the Ad Review team.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in an operations role, preferably in advertising, tech, social media, or a similarly fast-paced environment.
  • Experience managing vendor operations teams that support ad review, sales or support functions
  • Process-oriented, with experience in standardizing and optimizing internal processes
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills, especially with senior stakeholders
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving work environment
  • Able to manage time efficiently and navigate ambiguity
  • Action-oriented and able to break down complex strategies into an actionable plan
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What the JD emphasized

  • run efficient ad review processes
  • organized
  • action-oriented
  • tactical, queue-based environment