Index Exchange

Index Exchange

Senior Director, Publisher Operations

New York, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Account ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationAdaptability

About the role

  • With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we're committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large.
  • Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work.
  • We're built on our core values and live them each day.

Responsibilities

  • You advocate for our publisher partners and ensure their needs are represented through consistent communication to internal stakeholders across operations, product, marketing, and the executive team.
  • You set the standard for delivering excellent operational support and take accountability for the operational quality of the organization.
  • You build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and know how to drive alignment across organizations.
  • Drive significant growth across publisher partners, always looking for new ways to grow revenue and ensure optimal integration setup and account hygiene.
  • Implement and monitor performance metrics, lead process improvements, and develop best-practice standards that ensure consistent quality in account management, integration support, troubleshooting, and publisher enablement across all regions.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Account Management, and Platform Partnerships.
  • Act as a bridge between the commercial and technical sides of the business, advocate for publisher needs internally, and support strategic company initiatives that require senior operational leadership.
  • Support product launches across MVP, Alpha, Beta, and GA phases, including creating documentation, training materials, and internal enablement resources.
  • Communicate proactively, ensure alignment across regions, and partner with senior leadership on strategy execution.
  • You understand the operational mechanics that drive publisher performance and revenue, be it in traditional web, streaming or app channels.

Requirements

  • Leader of Leaders: You have significant experience managing senior managers and regional leaders.

Skills

  • All hiring decisions involve human review.

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this role is (X Number) to (X Number).
  • The total compensation package may vary depending on non-discriminatory factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

  • You have a deep understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape, including SSP operations, ad serving technologies, streaming technology, integration hygiene, and account health management.
  • You are equally comfortable setting a 12-24 month vision for the function and rolling up your sleeves to engage directly in a complex operational escalation or a major publisher account issue.
  • We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

Company info

  • You stay current with the evolving programmatic landscape and bring that knowledge back to your teams, your customers, and the broader business.
  • Manage a global team of Publisher Operations leaders and individual contributors, including recruiting, onboarding, and developing people managers in addition to individual contributors, ensuring scalable leadership, clear accountability, and succession planning across the function.
  • Establish KPIs and operational metrics that drive accountability across the global team.
  • As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities.
  • As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

Equal opportunity

  • If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you.
  • Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status

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