VP, Product (Curation Platform)

Company at a Glance OpenX is focused on unleashing the full economic potential of digital media companies. We do this by making digital advertising markets and technologies that are designed to deliver optimal value to publishers and advertisers on every ad served across all screens. At OpenX, we have built a team that is uniquely experienced in designing and operating high-scale ad marketplaces, and we are constantly on the lookout 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 is the gold standard for SSPs, and betting that curation is the future due to demands for further data transparency and better targeting. As the Vice President, Product (Curation Platform), you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of a transformative curation platform, shaping the future of digital advertising. This platform will empower advertisers and publishers by seamlessly integrating inventory targeting, data onboarding, third-party segment enhancements, and advanced performance optimization tools into a unified solution. You will oversee a talented team, each managing teams of dedicated engineering resources. Your leadership will drive collaboration, innovation, and excellence across teams, ensuring the platform meets market demands and sets new industry standards. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to: • Deliver groundbreaking tools that redefine how advertisers and publishers achieve precision targeting and campaign optimization. • Harness third-party data partnerships to enhance targeting capabilities and drive measurable performance. • Lead, inspire, and scale high-performing product teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. • Shape OpenX’s product roadmap in alignment with strategic business goals and industry trends, ensuring sustained growth and market leadership. This is a high-impact role where your expertise and vision will directly contribute to OpenX's mission to maximize the economic potential of digital media companies globally and help supercharge their curation efforts. Responsibilities: • Define product vision, strategy, roadmap, and next wave of product investments to accelerate OpenX’s leadership in the marketplace and curation product line. • Develop deep empathy with agencies, understand their objectives and needs, and create new workflows to drive speed and increase user experience. • Lead and scale an industry-leading product team and foster a collaborative environment that rewards creativity and execution. • Communicate profoundly and frequently with customers, evangelize products internally and at industry events, and contribute to thought leadership. • Collaborate cross-functionally with the ELT to help further mature and commercialize the product and organization. Qualifications: • Significant experience leading and scaling a global product organization and proven ability to build and organize high-performing, execution-oriented teams. • Proven operational rigor for high-velocity innovation, release, and delivery cycles. • Domain depth in AdTech; ideally, SSPs and curation. • Creative and inspiring communicator, evangelizing strategy/story-telling and vision with employees, customers, investors, and market influencers. Personal Characteristics: • High energy, action, and execution-oriented: a history of getting things done in complex, fast-paced environments - self-starter. • Results/outcome focused with a strong work ethic: must be tenacious, with the emotional intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches. • Inspires a culture of innovation, execution, collaboration, accountability, and positivity. • High ethical standards: integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character. • Strong culture carrier: humble, empathetic, and inclusive. • Strategic visionary with superior analytical skills: particular attention to detail with exceptional business acumen, maturity, diplomacy, and communication skills (both written and verbal). Apply tot his job