Vice President Product, Data Platform

About MediaRadar:

MediaRadar, now including the data and capabilities of Vivvix, powers the mission-critical marketing and sales decisions that drive competitive advantage. Our competitive advertising intelligence platform enables clients to achieve peak performance with always-on data and insights that span the media, creative, and business strategies of five million brands across 30+ media channels. By bringing the advertising past, present, and future into focus, our clients rapidly act on the competitive moves and emerging advertising trends impacting their business. 

The Vice President, Data Platform serves as a member of the Product Leadership team and will be responsible for building and optimizing MediaRadar’s data engine, the data underpinning for the company’s growth strategy.

In this role, you’ll apply both product and technical knowledge to design and architecture MediaRadar's single data engine to collect, process and analyze all media, delivering comprehensive coverage and high-quality analytics that competitors cannot match. You’ll accelerate the use of automation and AI to expand our data assets, improve quality and generate operational savings for future innovation. This is a fantastic opportunity for an analytical, creative and strategic data leader to help drive the future of the advertising ecosystem.

Requirements

Process Optimization and Innovation

  • Complete MediaRadar’s transition to a single data engine to collect, process and analyze all media, delivering comprehensive coverage that competitors cannot match
  • Define and execute on the vision for the future of the data platform, ensuring that it can scale to meet the business’s future needs 
  • Partner with Operations to improve the productivity and speed of our data collection and data processing, using both automation and optimization of Operational tools  
  • Drive a continuous improvement mindset: meet or exceed coverage, speed and efficiency metrics, and prioritize the roadmap and future investments to ensure that progress continues   
  • Accelerate use of AI throughout data operations to allow MediaRadar to expand coverage and improve quality with fewer resources
  • Support MediaRadar’s continued investments in digital, video and social expansion, onboarding new data assets to support continued leadership in Media coverage

Culture of Quality

  • Ensure that all aspects of our data collection and data enrichment have clear quality metrics and quality monitoring processes. Partner with Operations and Development to proactively identify and resolve quality issues 
  • Ensure that data pipelines into client delivery platforms operate at the speed and quality needed by clients
  • Ensure that our spend estimation models and other analytics deliver best-in-class results, especially as we transform and expand our digital and video coverage
  • Partner with Operations, Development, Product Management Segment Leads and Commercial to monitor and improve quality, and make effective quality versus efficiency/speed tradeoffs

Roadmap Execution & Results

  • Deliver the data and analytics roadmap on time and within budget, in order to support end-user roadmap launches and budgeted efficiency gains 
  • Communicate progress, challenges, risks and opportunities to all stakeholders, including the segment leads, the MediaRadar leadership team and board 
  • Proactively manage the long-term data roadmap, quantifying compelling business cases and managing tradeoffs
  • Partner closely with the leaders of Sell-Side and Buy-Side segments and Operations teams to unify the data and product roadmaps and make effective roadmap tradeoffs

Team Management

  • Hire and mentor team members to ensure a best-in-class data product organization 
  • Drive a customer-centric, efficiency-driven and continuous improvement mindset within the team 
  • Implement and monitor adherence to best practices to drive efficiency in the SDLC, Operational process and analytical models and ensure deadlines and key benchmarks are met

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of leadership experience in Product Management and Analytics in a data-rich environment 
  • Proven track record for leading complex operational strategic initiatives through periods of transformation, merger integration, or significant organizational change.  
  • Analytical and process-oriented with an innovation mindset; ability to dig into data & identify trends, and identify the fastest solution to solve operational issues 
  • Proven track record driving both significant operational efficiency and innovation in data processing
  • Expert in product development lifecycle, agile methodology and the analytics and development tech stack.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and influencing skills 
  • Excellent business judgment to put problems into context and make effective tradeoffs
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate with Operational leads, developers, data scientists, product managers and commercial team members 
  • Past success in hiring and developing  a high-performance team 

Benefits

In addition to career progression, training and development, and an excellent work/life balance, future Radarians can expect a great benefits package that includes:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • 401k with Company Match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Gym Discounts
  • Summer Fridays

At MediaRadar, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. We believe that diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences makes us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.

In accordance with the EEO-1 reporting requirements, we collect demographic data as part of our efforts to ensure fair and equitable hiring practices across all levels of our organization.

This is a full-time exempt role with a base salary range of $250,000-$270,000, plus benefits. A final compensation offer will ultimately be based on the candidate's location, skill level and experience, and the Company's pay equity.

We are also committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].

We’re excited to meet people who share our values and want to build the future with us.

About MediaRadarMediaRadar is an award-winning advertising intelligence solution that is used by media planning, buying, and selling teams.MediaRadar offers comprehensive advertising analysis for over 4 million brands across multiple media platforms including TV, digital, mobile, email, events, social media, and print. Media sellers rely on MediaRadar to prospect, create compelling pitches, and connect with the right buyers. Agencies and marketers use MediaRadar to create the best media mix, uncover new advertising opportunities, and monitor their competitors. MediaRadar also offers custom solutions and data licensing for use in market research, sales intelligence, ad compliance, and equity markets.In November of 2023, MediaRadar acquired Vivvix, a company offering competitive advertising intelligence across both digital and traditional media channels, such as mobile apps, streaming services, and social media. MediaRadar and Vivvix are both AI-powered platforms, with AI used to track and collect advertising insights across media channels, as well as to power sales recommendations and prospecting tools. Following the Transaction, MediaRadar’s expanded resources and capital will allow it to further invest in cutting-edge data and tech capabilities, building next-gen solutions that drive maximum value for its customers and cementing its position as the industry’s analytics leader.Why we do it?Because we can. We’re not kidding! Because our customers are flooded with data, and we’ve got the skills and tools to help. And helping businesses solve problems, answer critical questions with our data, and be delighted with the outcome makes us proud of what we’ve built.The amount of data generated and collected in our world continues to grow exponentially, and as they say, if you’re not on that bus, you’re under it. At MediaRadar, we’ve been collecting, analyzing, and delivering insights distilled from huge amounts of data to publishers and advertisers since 2006. Our clients see us as a solution to their everyday challenges, not just another source of data.Why will you want to work here?If you’re looking for an opportunity to work with other smart, ambitious people, to help build a company that invents market-leading SaaS solutions that our customers rave about, you’ve come to the right place!We strongly value rolling up our sleeves and taking on challenges – and we do it in a fast-paced and fun environment. Get started, get involved, and make your mark: ideas come from everyone – especially newbies!

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