Sr Director, Mobile Apps
As Sr Director, Mobile Apps at OpenX, you will be responsible for leading and driving product development and defining the roadmap for the mobile ad platform. The mobile ad market is a high priority project for the company with high visibility. This role requires a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and customer needs; as well as intimate understanding of how OpenX products work at the feature level across multiple platforms. You will work cross functionally across the business while collaborating with multiple engineering teams.
The ideal candidate will have a technical background and be capable of working through complicated problems with our engineering team, while at the same time being able to simplify these complex problems for presentation to customers and internal business teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the mobile product team by setting both the vision and strategy, creating the roadmap and evangelizing the next generation of the mobile ad platform
- Drive feature prioritization and product requirements
- Evaluate opportunities, developing products and features based on market feedback and data analysis
- Ensure product vision is aligned with that of the company at large by regularly collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
- Proactively provide customer and business context to engineering team
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years product management experience including 3+ years in mobile advertising at product management lead level
- 3+ years of team management experience
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (preferably in computer science or engineering); MBA strongly preferred
- Strong technical problem solving and decision making skills
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Fluency in an Agile development environment preferred
Desired Characteristics
- The ideal candidate is a passionate mobile ad tech product leader, who is both detail oriented and customer oriented with experience building workflow solutions and complex, highly integrated software solutions
- Possess a high level of intellect and creativity
- Expresses complex concepts clearly and communicates effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Impeccable work ethic, humble but confident
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; able to build strong relationships across functions
- Highly accountable; takes ownership and drives sense of urgency
- A product evangelist, who is able to inspire and drive consensus