Director, Product Management, Audience

Our Story

Xandr powers a global marketplace for premium advertising. Our data-enabled technology platform, encompassing Xandr Invest, Xandr Monetize, and Xandr Curate, optimizes return on investment for both buyers and sellers. We champion partnerships to create an open industry alternative solving for the greatest challenges for buyers and sellers, at the intersection of digital and TV.

How do we do this? With talented, passionate people like you! We bring together people from diverse backgrounds and give them an opportunity to bring their ideas to life. Join our community and support us in creating meaningful connections that power the future of advertising.

The Job
In this role, you will engage deeply with platform customers and partners to identify market opportunities, help define and set product strategy, and break complex problems down into actionable roadmaps. Serving as the critical bridge between our technology and our customers, you will interact with nearly every part of the organization - from Sales and Services teams to Engineering, Marketing, and Design. You will have opportunities to experiment, build, fail fast and bring to the table creative ideas to help Xandr's customers. Developing innovative, industry-changing products is the heart of our business at Xandr, and this is a fantastic opportunity to join the team that sits on the front lines.

The Team
As the Director of Product Management on the Audience & Identity team, you’ll lead one of most visible and key growth areas for the company. Our Audience team works on developing capabilities that unlock the value of 1st & 3rd party data to enable relevant advertising. You will be directly interfacing with stakeholders across the technology organization - UI/UX, Data Partnerships & integrations, Data Science and Engineering as well as other product teams - to help our platform customers achieve their business outcomes in a changing identity and privacy landscape.

You Will

• Lead the full product lifecycle for the Audience product areas, including research, scoping, prototyping, validation, commercialization, and rollout.
• Consolidate, rationalize, and prioritize market requirements into a product roadmap to define GTM strategy and timeline for product features and enhancements.
• Lead and coach a team of PMs of varying seniority
• Be the subject matter expert for the Audience capability's engagement across the Digital Platform, including cross-product group dependencies for Invest, Monetize and Curate.
• Demonstrate technical, business, and leadership responsibilities of a director-level product manager

Requirements

You Have

• 8 years of experience in a product focused role for an enterprise technology product
• 3 years of people management experience
• Domain expertise and/or experience in advertising platforms preferred
• Proven track record of managing products from ideation to launch
• Experience working openly and collaboratively with a broad range of functions
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams in a highly technical environment
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with business and technology leaders within Xandr and at customer/partner organizations
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with regularly shifting priorities

Benefits

Our Perks

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Flexible time off including volunteer days, vacation, and holidays
• Professional development resources and education reimbursement
• Paid parental leave
• Fitness reimbursement
• 401k with company match

Our Culture

Xandr strives to foster a diverse, inclusive, and engaging work environment. Our inclusivity in action includes:

• Wellness resources and equipment reimbursement to support a remote work environment that keeps our employees connected and happy.
• Opportunities to create meaningful change for our communities and foster diverse talent through employee volunteerism and internal development events.
• Partnerships with organizations that support our commitment to women’s advancement in tech.
• Accommodations for persons with disabilities, both for interviewees and employees. Should you require accommodation, please let us know and we’ll make arrangements.
• Employee groups representing a range of identities and perspectives, which regularly put on programming that supports equity and inclusion through education and community.

What’s unique about Xandr? We asked some of our members around the globe…Take a peek at their video responses below.

• Xandr Life
• What’s Unique about Xandr

Awards

Several of our products, innovations, and client partnerships have been recognized by esteemed outlets, including AdExchanger, Digiday, The Drum, and ExchangeWire. In 2021, Xandr won a Chair Award in The Drum Awards for Digital Advertising for our work with our clients in Europe. That same year, Cynopsis recognized our products and team with several awards, including “Outstanding Data Solution” (Xandr Curate), “Outstanding New Audience-Based Ad Offering” (Xandr Invest), and “Best AdTech Solution” in their Best of the Best Awards. Xandr EVP and GM Mike Welch was recognized on the Cynopsis It List; in 2020, Cablefax's annual The Faxies awards named Welch Innovator of the Year and the Xandr technology organization Tech Team of the Year.

Women at Xandr have been recognized for STEM and industry leadership by the Diversity Journal, the Stevie Awards, Cynopsis, and AdMonsters. Seven female executives were included in Cynopsis’ list of the top women in media. The company’s dedication to corporate social responsibility was also recognized in Fast Company’s “2020 World Changing Ideas” issue.

Xandr is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.