As the Director, Product for Sovrn, you will have the opportunity to help define and grow an exciting area of the company in a highly visible role. As part of the Product Management team, you will hold a relentless focus on the customer and dive deep into the challenges they face. You will work with business leaders across sales, marketing, data science, and engineering to guide products from conception to launch.

You will be working with the engineering and data science teams to build data products. These products help our publishers maximize value for their inventory while also ensuring brands reach the specific audiences they desire.

The successful candidate must have exceptional problem solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated experience leading through influence on initiatives that involve multiple cross-functional teams. You have a bias toward action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development. You achieve this by driving execution that utilizes tight feedback loops with our customers.

What you will be doing:

• Work with stakeholders to build and execute the data product vision, strategy and roadmap for Sovrn.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging products, competitor landscape.
• Responsible for managing market research and opportunity assessment on new ideas and concepts.
• Effectively communicate a prioritized roadmap for internal and external stakeholders
• Work as a part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional team to oversee full lifecycle Product Management from strategy to execution.
• Gather and prioritize end-user requirements, user stories, test plans, and other product documentation. Identify dependencies and clear blockers.
• Be the visible advocate for your products internally and externally.
• Monitor product performance, identifying new opportunities and making timely recommendations to drive product effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership and drive complex technical integrations.
• Manage and lead a team of Product Managers to ensure product strategy to the roadmap, prioritize features, build consensus and coordinate product schedules.

What we'd like for our next hire to have:

• The ideal candidate is a passionate product manager who is both technically capable, and customer oriented with experience building complex, highly integrated, scalable software solutions
• 8+ years experience in Product Management, with a successful track record of designing, building and launching self-service software products with real business impact
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues in a concise and understandable manner to non-subject matter experts, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to lead and influence across different organizations and align diverse teams to a common goal
• Demonstrated experience using testing methods (A/B, focus groups) to evolve product strategies and roadmaps
• Analytical and able to create sound business arguments backed up by data
• Entrepreneurial spirit, with track record for delivering results in fast-moving and demanding environments
• Understanding of the advertising technology industry (Browser cookies, DMPs, RTB auctions, Hashed Email)
• Proficiency in Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Proficient in SQL, HQL, or other analytical languages
• BA/BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business, or other related field

Position Reports to: CTO 

About Sovrn

We spend a great deal of our time online. Whether it’s for information, commerce, or entertainment, each of us has come to depend on what we research, discover, and share. Publishers – those who create and curate content – are what makes the Internet great. Yet these publishers practice their craft largely alone, in siloes – without reference points or insightful understanding about where they sit in the grand scheme of things. To add to the challenge, once a Publisher’s content is in the wild, then the task of building engagement, growing a loyal following and enriching the engagement with that following can sometimes feel like shots in the dark or worse, a black box. Moreover, making money from their craft can be a complex task for any independent publisher who might prioritize generating content first and money second.

Sovrn believes that independent publishers are the Internet's vibrancy. As a partner and advocate to tens of thousands of independent publishers, Sovrn provides tools, technologies and services that help publishers (a) make money; (b) get distribution to grow their audience; and (c) access a massive data commons providing extraordinary insights.

The landscape of content networks, adtech vendors, and the myriad of buy-side / sell-side companies can be a complete maze for any reasonable person to decipher. Sovrn cuts through the noise and simplifies things with a basic, straightforward mission:

Help content creators do more of what they want to do – and less of what they don’t