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Sr. Director - Head of Product Ads & Data
Samsung
Mountain View, CA, United States
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Position Summary
As Sr. Director of Product for our advertising and data business, you will lead product vision and drive business-wide initiatives to make the Samsung’s Ad platform a leading, go-to platform for agencies and advertisers. You will partner with internal teams and external partners and customers to ensure Samsung’s products are successful in meeting the needs of our customers. You will be responsible for setting our product strategy and developing and owning the product roadmap that embodies our strategic vision and meets the needs of our fast-growing ads business. You will manage a team of product managers to define requirements, develop new products and features, manage the timely execution of our product roadmap and cultivate a strong collaborative and forward-thinking culture through your leadership. As a critical person on the business team, you will report to the SVP of Product and Engineering and work closely with R&D, data science, and sales senior management.
Role and Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Create and lead the vision for our advertising products, set product strategy and roadmap, and hands-on manage the timely execution of the roadmap
• Collaborate with clients, partners, and internal teams to understand market needs and trends, and translate them into a clear product strategy and product requirements
• Work closely with internal R&D and sales leadership and lead and grow a team of product managers to define, plan, and deliver product initiatives
• Provide strong leadership and evangelism of the product vision and strategy
• Manage the product team to manage and track product deliverables to deliver on time and in scope to meet revenue goals
• Responsible for managing the product release cycle and share responsibility with engineering for on-time delivery of products
• Prioritize projects among competing opportunities, balance customer needs with business priorities, and articulate business rationale behind decisions
• Create revenue and cost models for product initiatives
• Monitor competition and evaluate our positioning in the context of the markets we serve
• Communicate Samsung’s ads and data product strategy, plans, and progress to customers and internal teams, including engineering, ad operations, sales, marketing, and corporate executives
• Update product marketing and sales on product launches and product capabilities
• Be a champion of the vision and strategy to many teams throughout the company
Skills and Qualifications
Experience
• 15+ years in product management with demonstrated success in leading product teams with 8+ years of experience in ad tech
• Proven experience creating a product vision and strategy that has led to aggressive revenue growth
• Solid track record of setting product strategy, defining product roadmaps, working collaboratively with design and engineering peers, and shipping solutions at scale
• Passion for building new, disruptive products with proven success leading, planning, and executing in a fast-paced, high-growth and cross-functional environment
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to break down markets, identify trends and spot new opportunities
• Demonstrated success with delivering successful software products and features and working across the full product lifecycle
• Deep understanding of digital advertising ecosystem, including technical structure and buy/sell side marketplace dynamics, including the interdependencies between SSPs, DSPs, DMPs, and exchanges, and working knowledge of audience building/modeling, analytics, attribution, insights, and campaign execution.
• Ability to understand the technical underpinnings of products and different engineering tradeoffs
• Experience with Agile product development and systems and enthusiasm for continuous improvement
• Proven ability to influence internal teams without direct authority, including senior decision makers and executives
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability to pitch vision and strategy as well as build successful relationships with executives, stakeholders, and engineering and sales counterparts.
• Ability to drive team culture, including leading the charge, providing leadership feedback, managing aggressive schedules and proven success in building, managing, and developing Product teams
• BS in computer science or engineering preferred
• Manage people and collaboration across multiple time zones and geographies
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