About the Client:

Our client is changing the world of e-commerce. The company is building a payments and promotions platform that uses efficiencies of the Web and a patent-pending optimization engine to increase revenue for e-commerce sites. The company's has served more than 40 million users and is continuing its trend of triple-digit revenue growth year-over-year.

Last year the company raised over $15m from leading venture capitalists.

They offer the chance to work on the ground floor of a fast-growing, financially strong company. They hire great people and encourage them to achieve their potential. The company culture is defined by high energy, sharp intellect, creativity and collaboration. They believe in hard work, a fun, open atmosphere, and the autonomy to push one’s limits. If you are exceptional at what you do, you're a passionate team player and you want to have an impact on millions of people, then we'd love to hear from you!

About the Opportunity:

Our client is looking for a Product Director of Advertising to develop and drive the advertising strategy. The Director will come up with innovative advertising optimization strategies that will contribute to our client’s continued growth and market position. The Director will work with the product-line general managers to assess advertising inventory needs, and will work with the sales team to develop a plan for managing relationships with key advertisers. The director will constantly assess how to increase the value we deliver to advertiser clients and the profits obtain from this.

The individual should be analytically astute, creative in solving new and unstructured problems, and will set the strategy to develop and maintain effective relationships with the Web's largest advertisers.

Working with a world-class product team, this will be a career-defining opportunity. This is a high-impact role that has the potential to dramatically impact revenue growth and enterprise value. This demanding role will draw on many aspects of your academic, technical, and business background.

Reports to Chief Product Officer, with close interaction to the CEO, product line General Managers, and other members of the management team.

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Responsibilities:

• Own and drive Advertising strategy – coming up with the right strategies, tools, and business process
• Strategy (e.g. what strategies do we implement to improve the acquisition and management of ads?)
• Competitive assessment (e.g., what are strengths and weaknesses of each competitor? How can our client build products that deliver more value to the advertiser?)
• Market assessment (e.g., what does the market look like, what are the issues that matter to each advertiser segment, what advertisements are best-suited to what geographies, what advertisers should be targeted?)
• Tools (e.g., what tools to build for advertisers? What internal tools should be built to manage ad inventory and optimize and merchant profits? )
• Quality (e.g. how can our client measure and maintain the highest-quality product for their advertising clients?)

Requirements:

• Education/Experience:
• MBA from a top-tier school
• 4-8 years experience in strategy consulting and in a high-growth technology company
• Experience with advertising a plus
• Mastery in Excel, PowerPoint
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
• Personal Characteristics:
• Must be able to deliver solutions to unstructured problems
• Strong understanding of team dynamics and an ability to communicate with everyone in the organization (i.e., engineering, sales, marketing, etc.)
• Resourcefulness, ability to operate in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Strong organization skills with attention to detail