Senior Vice President, Product Management

Smaato’s digital ad tech platform is a completely omnichannel, self-serve monetisation  solution and ad server. Our controls make monetisation  simple. Publishers can bring their first-party data and manage all inventory in one place. Marketers get access to the highest-quality inventory so they can reach audiences around the world and on any device. Smaato is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in Hamburg, New York City, Beijing and Singapore. Learn more at www.smaato.com

Smaato is looking for a SVP, Product management to hire, coach and lead a strong team of cross-functional geographically product analyst and product manager to deliver features across a high-throughput, high complexity, distributed system. The ideal leader of Product Management will assist define product market fit, develop the product roadmap,  and drive the execution of that strategy. 

What You’ll Do

• Develop roadmap for product to grow monetisation through prioritising coverage of ad formats, media types, channels, and tactics
• Work closely with cross-functional teams -- engineering, data science, business development, and account management to create business requirements, develop technical designs, and develop new products to go to market
• Create an environment of product excellence centred on velocity, simplicity, frugality and innovation.
• Enable the product team to work at maximum efficiency and velocity to deliver products to market.
• Hire, coach, manage and retain a geographically distributed team with locations in the US, Europe, India .
• Be accountable for setting expectations and delivering against expectations when it comes to product management.
• Build cross-functional best practices with Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal and Operations to produce company-wide synergies and improvements.
• Connect people across teams and organizations to find solutions to problems.
• Work closely with Engineering counterparts within the broader parent company to identify opportunities for synergies, common understanding, learning and support.

What We'll Need

Essential Prerequisites:

• University Degree in a scientific discipline
• Ad Tech experience is must 
• Expert at managing multiple cross-functional teams with multiple management layers
• Experience using ad platforms and building ad products from scratch
• Experience operating a metrics-driven environment, where decisions are made with data
• Experience working with highly technical customers, and supporting the Engineering and Sales teams in their engagement with customers
• Experience building and managing remote teams effectively