Toronto – CA Paid Media & AdOps Zakaria Moukatib

Zakaria Moukatib

Experience
9+ years in paid media, prior web development
Current role
Digital Marketing Advisor, Government of Ontario in-house agency
Geography
Toronto, ON + remote
Languages
English, French, Arabic
Availability
Open to offers
Years in paid media
9+
Morocco, France, Canada
i Still pacing ahead
Platforms operated
6
DV360, CM360, Meta, Amazon DSP, Google Search, LinkedIn
Sides of the business
3
Media planning, ad operations, web development

Experience

5 line items
RoleTypeMarketStatusScope
Digital Marketing Advisor
Government of Ontario, in-house ad agency
Planning + AdOps Toronto Live Media strategy and trafficking for Ontario ministries across DV360, Meta, LinkedIn, Amazon DSP, and paid search. Vendor management, performance reporting, and training junior team members on DV360, CM360, and paid search.
Ad Ops Team Lead / Campaign Manager
The Mars Agency, Walmart Media Group
Ad Operations Toronto Completed Led ad operations on Walmart Media Group business. Retail media at volume: trafficking, QA, delivery, and a team to keep on pace.
Digital media agency roles
Agencies in France
Paid Media France Completed Agency-side digital media in the French market. Built the multilingual campaign instincts that still pay off on every bilingual EN/FR flight.
Digital media agency roles
Agencies in Morocco
Paid Media Morocco Completed Started agency-side in Morocco, working across digital channels for local and international clients.
Web Developer
Early career
Development Morocco Completed Built websites before buying media on them. The technical foundation behind every tag, macro, and creative spec fix since, and the reason this page exists.

Platforms

hands-on, in-platform
PlatformScopeStatus
DV360Programmatic display, video, DOOH and AOOHActive
CM360Trafficking, tags, verification, reportingActive
MetaFull-funnel strategy and buying, bilingual EN/FRActive
Amazon DSPCampaign management, creative spec troubleshootingActive
Google SearchPaid search planning and managementActive
LinkedInB2B and program awareness campaignsActive
HTML / CSS / JSInternal tools, calculators, and full static sites built from scratchActive

Delivered

selected line items
Line itemTypeStatusDetail
Bilingual Meta strategy
Provincial awards campaign
Strategy Delivered Full EN/FR Meta strategy for a province-wide recognition campaign, from audience architecture to ministry-facing correspondence.
Over-delivery recovery
Programmatic guarantee
AdOps Delivered Caught a vendor over-delivery before anyone else did, quantified it, and drove the correspondence to resolution.
Creative rescue
Amazon DSP
AdOps Delivered Diagnosed and fixed VPAID and video spec rejections on bilingual creatives, keeping the flight on schedule.
Team structure proposal
Internal, 8-person team
Leadership Delivered Designed and pitched a three-tier planning / adops / hybrid role framework to fix inconsistent division of responsibilities.
Trafficking time estimator
Internal tool
Development Delivered Built a per-platform trafficking time estimator with QA and revision buffers, in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

My Inventory: owned & operated

OpsKit

AdOps toolkit · built with a custom Node.js static site generator

Six working calculators for the daily math of ad ops: media math, discrepancy analysis, pacing, reach and frequency, UTM building, budget splits.

serviceontario.online

Independent publisher site · monetized

Unofficial plain-language guide to Ontario government services. Designed, written, built, and monetized solo.

The Programmatic Stack

Educational guide · interactive

Visual guide to programmatic advertising: interactive supply chain, RTB auction timeline, and a searchable 27-term glossary.

Negotiations

1 open
DealTypeStatus
Your team + Zak
Guaranteed fit, negotiable terms
Direct deal Ready for setup Set up
Candidate 360 · Toronto · EN / FR / AR LinkedIn Email