Head of Programmatic Partnerships

Taboola is the leading discovery platform, serving over 360 billion editorial and video recommendations to over 1 billion unique visitors every month on some of the Web’s most innovative publisher sites, including USA TODAY, Huffington Post, MSN, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune and The Weather Channel. Headquartered in New York City, Taboola also has offices in Los Angeles, London, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangkok, São Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Istanbul, Sydney and Tokyo. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola to retain users on their sites, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to drive high-quality audiences. Learn more at www.taboola.com and follow @taboola on Twitter.

Why you want to work for us:

Taboola is quickly expanding its Native and Video Programmatic business unit and is looking for an experienced, goal-setter, analytical business leader to establish business strategy, and eventually a team, to lead our newly formed Programmatic Demand Group. 

You will be a key member of a team who drives and advocates for a new and fast-growing segment in Taboola’s eco-system, working with multiple teams from Product, Operations, Business Development and Media Sales

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and own the business operation of Taboola’s programmatic channels globally, including owning revenue goals
• Expand Taboola’s global partnerships with programmatic partners and channels
• Manage complex relationships, accurately forecast revenue and find new business opportunities through different demand channels
• Be responsible for the education and proliferation of programmatic in the organization, both support and media sales functions
• Refine and own Taboola’s go-to-market programmatic strategy
• Act as a thought leader in the company as well as overall industry, evangelizing the Taboola products and capabilities

Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in the programmatic space, managing an SSP’s relationships with DSPs, or managing a DSP supply partnership.
• A minimum of 4 years of management experience, ideally leading teams of 5 or more employees
• Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports.
• Technology-savvy and able to quickly learn what is needed to support the implementation and optimization of programmatic partners
• Strong written and verbal communication allowing individual to explain the metrics of programmatic, Private Marketplace development and strategic planning, SSP functionalities, and other forms of inventory securing
• The will and ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and learn, learn, learn!

Nice to haves:

• Programmatic buying and DSP experience; comfortable planning/buying on DSP, working with 1st and 3rd party data
• Relationship with leaders at top DSPs
• Experience in and knowledge of video advertising technology, marketing technology
• Agency video media sales experience
• Experience working with remote teams

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