Product Manager
Index Exchange
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Customer & Partnership Focused Mindset: You love speaking with customers from world-leading publishers to advertisers and agencies and you're excited to help them grow their revenue and build a thriving digital ads marketplace. The challenges you'll face require entrepreneurial thinking and a sense for how to align incentives to grow the pie towards an open ecosystem rather than walled gardens.
- Product Sense: We think of Product as the engine that drives our company's growth. You have solid product intuition. You've taken multiple great ideas from conception to market launch to bottom-line business impact. Having lived (and learned) through a few failures is good too.
- Collaborative Leadership: You're a natural leader who can rally people across Engineering, UX, Marketing, and Sales and Services into a high-functioning delivery team. You are well-organized and delivery-oriented. You can work with Project Management to herd cats and guide an Agile team through delivery against a stack ranked set of priorities.
- Technical Curiosity: You thrive on figuring out complex systems and marketplaces, identifying opportunities to simplify and improve them, and working with Engineering to make it a reality. You love working at Internet scale, and you understand how even small adjustments can have a massive impact when applied across billions of users and transactions.
- Data-centric Mindset: You make significant decisions based on real data, and you use it to convince others that you're right, because how else would you do it? You're great at analysis and visualization, and you not only pronounce SQL the right way but you know how to use it.
- Working with commercial teams and customers (publishers, DSPs, agencies) to understand their needs, and decide which ones we should address.
- Creating product roadmaps to set both internal and external expectations about the products we'll bring to market. Maintaining a prioritized set of products, features, and bugs.
- Using your best judgment to make the right decisions, even when the data is imperfect; this includes saying “NO” to good ideas that simply won't win, because they're not great ideas.
- Collaborating with Design, Engineering, Exchange Quality, Customer Service and other technology teams to deliver high-quality products and features on time.
- Coordinating across numerous commercial and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure that products are launched correctly, that they can be measured appropriately, that they can be serviced, and that they meet the business objectives they were designed to achieve.
- Partnering with customer service teams and early adopters to ensure that whatever we build is usable by our clients.
- 2+ years of Product Management experience in either ad tech or, onboarding/auditing for transaction based platforms.
- We prefer candidates with a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Physics, or Business. However, we understand that some of the most accomplished product leaders may hold different degrees. Ultimately, we place greater emphasis on experience and relevant skills.
- A track record of successful product launches and landings including UI features.
- Experience and familiarity with building and shipping within the Agile framework.
- Strong technical, communication, and analytical skills.
- Flexibility for some occasional travel.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans at no cost to you
- Time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement plan with a 5% company match
- Stock options and equity packages
- Generous parental leave
- Monthly wellness stipend plus fitness discounts and quarterly wellness group activities
- Community engagement opportunities and donation-matching program
- Annual virtual company retreats and regular community-led team events
- One day off per year to volunteer
- A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment -