Hiring: Head of AI Ads Company: AirOps Location: Utica-Rome Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:38:16 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, ServiceNow, TestNG About the job Experience: •6+ years experience in performance marketing, growth, digital advertising, or related relevant fields at high growth startups. Required Skills: •If you are a high-level performance marketing leader, growth operator, or founder who is eager to invent the future of digital advertising from scratch, this is your platform. •Category Blueprint & Strategy: Define AirOps’ playbook for AI-native advertising, creating the definitive frameworks for budget allocation, paid placements, organic authority, and content optimization across LLM platforms. •Customer Growth Architecture: Partner directly with marketing executives and growth teams to map out early-adopter strategies, evaluating channel tradeoffs, testing mechanisms, and full-funnel ROI. •0-to-1 Experimentation Engine: Design and execute high-velocity quantitative experiments across emerging AI platforms to decode auction dynamics, recommendation algorithms, conversion triggers, and attribution models. •Paid & Organic Convergence: Bridge the gap between performance marketing and AI Engine Optimization (AEO), guiding brands on when to leverage structured data, authority-building, or direct paid placements. •Industry Thought Leadership: Serve as the public face and key voice of AirOps in the AI Ads ecosystem: publishing insights, educating executive buyers, and shaping market perception around the future of discovery. •Product & Practice Building: Translate front-line customer learnings and experimental results into repeatable product specs and scalable go-to-market service motions. Qualifications: •Spiked Performance & Growth DNA: Proven track record leading high-scale performance marketing, SEM, or paid media teams with deep mastery of auction mechanics, bidding logic, targeting, and multi-touch attribution. •First-Principles Innovator: A history of pioneering new, unproven channels or markets before standard playbooks existed. You thrive in complete ambiguity and create order out of noise. •Holistic Growth Instincts: Sharp strategic judgment across both paid and organic levers. You view discovery as an integrated ecosystem, not just a series of isolated ad buys. •Quantitative Rigor: Strong analytical instinct with a data-first approach to budget allocation, unit economics, incrementality, and performance measurement. •AI & Search Curiosity: Deep, active fascination with AI-native discovery, LLM evolution, and answer-engine landscapes (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, etc.). •Category-Building Energy: High-bandwidth communicator with executive presence, passionate about establishing a new industry discipline at the intersection of AI, performance marketing, and brand growth. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package •Equity in a fast-growing startup Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!