Director, Product Management
As Director, Product Management at OpenX, you will be responsible for driving product development and defining the roadmap for high impact projects. 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a product team by setting both the vision and strategy, creating the roadmap and evangelizing the next generation of our 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 2+ years in programmatic advertising at product management lead level
- 2+ years of team management experience
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (preferably in computer science or engineering); MBA strongly preferred.
- Fluency in an Agile development environment preferred
Desired Characteristics
- The ideal candidate is a passionate 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
- Strong technical problem solving and decision making skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to build strong relationships across functions
- Impeccable work ethic and is humble yet confident
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Highly accountable leader who takes ownership and drives sense of urgency
- A product evangelist, who is able to inspire and drive consensus
Company at a Glance
OpenX exists to help publishers grow their businesses by monetizing great content. We do this by creating highly efficient, high quality programmatic advertising marketplaces that deliver optimal value to all buyers and sellers of digital advertising.
Today, OpenX operates one of the largest, most efficient and highest quality programmatic markets in the world. Our unified system also encompasses a complete supply side platform that optimizes revenue across network and real-time bidding (RTB) demand, and a comprehensive ad server.
At OpenX we have built a team that is uniquely experienced in designing and operating high-scale programmatic ad marketplaces. We are constantly looking for thoughtful, creative executors who are as fascinated as we are about finding new ways to apply a blend of market design, technical innovation, operational excellence, and empathetic partner service to the frontiers of digital advertising.
OpenX Values
We are one
Our customers define us
OpenX is mine
We are an open book
We evolve fast