Strategic Relationship Director - SSP

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast Company, is hiring a Strategic Relationship Director to join the US Supply team. This role owns long term, executive level monetization relationships with premium publishers, with a specific focus on programmatic CTV, SSP strategy, and scalable revenue growth. The Director serves as a senior commercial and strategic partner to publishers as they navigate the evolution of programmatic marketplaces, demand consolidation, and hybrid monetization models across direct and programmatic channels.
This role is accountable for shaping portfolio level programmatic strategy, expanding inventory access and prioritization, and ensuring FreeWheel remains a critical monetization partner through differentiated technology, marketplace leadership, and trusted advisory relationships.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• • Develop and own executive level relationships with monetization, revenue, and strategy leaders at premium publishers, serving as a long term strategic advisor on programmatic and total revenue strategy. 

  • Set and execute multi quarter and annual growth plans across a portfolio of premium publishers, with accountability for programmatic revenue expansion, SSP adoption, and marketplace performance. 

  • Define and drive publisher specific programmatic strategies, including inventory access models, auction and packaging frameworks, pricing philosophies, and demand enablement priorities, in partnership with internal teams. 

  • Establish and grow inventory access, prioritization, and supply path alignment across FreeWheel’s SSP and broader marketplace, ensuring premium inventory is positioned for maximum demand and yield. 

  • Provide thought leadership on programmatic CTV trends, including SPO evolution, demand consolidation, auction dynamics, and buyer behavior, translating market shifts into actionable publisher strategies. 

  • Partner closely with Product, Marketplace Operations, and Demand leadership to influence roadmap priorities, represent publisher needs, and ensure scalable solutions that drive revenue and operational efficiency. 

  • Lead strategic business reviews and roadmap alignment discussions with publishers, connecting FreeWheel’s product vision and marketplace capabilities to publisher monetization objectives. 

  • Maintain deep understanding of the competitive and SSP landscape, using market intelligence to inform strategy, strengthen FreeWheel’s value proposition, and guide publisher decision making. 

  • Identify and accelerate strategic growth opportunities, including new distribution models, emerging programmatic capabilities, and innovative monetization approaches across platforms and screens. 

  • Exercise independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance, balancing publisher needs, marketplace health, and FreeWheel’s long term strategic goals. 

  • Mentor and develop senior team members, setting strategic direction, reinforcing best practices, and ensuring consistent, high quality engagement across the publisher portfolio. 

  • Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, with variable schedules as necessary. 

   

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Executive Relationship Management, Monetization, Programmatic Strategy, Revenue Growth

Compensation

Primary Location Pay Range: $181,623.63 - $272,435.45

Targeted Commission: $83,571.00

Our sales compensation programs offer the potential for significant upside above targeted earnings for those who overachieve their sales targets.

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.    Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus.  Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees.  We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most.  That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +

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