Product Director - Internal Empowerment

About Teads

Teads is the omnichannel outcomes platform for the open internet, driving full-funnel results for marketers across premium media. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, the combined company ensures value is driven with every media dollar by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. One of the most scaled advertising platforms on the open internet, Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, with a global team of nearly 1,800 people in 36 countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

Internal Empowerment team

The "Internal Empowerment" department is the backbone of Teads, aiming at delivering the right tools to drive the efficiency of all our internal teams: Sales, Operations, Finance, Marketing, HR,... whilst ensuring compliance as a public company listed on the NASDAQ.

At the forefront of generative AI utilization to automate the relevant tasks and support strategic decision-making, the internal empowerment teams are transversally involved across all Teads processes and activities.

The department is split in different teams, each having a dedicated product manager and engineering resources, and focusing on a particular area (e.g: Operations, Sales) to ensure going deep and having a real impact. The teams are mapped to the relevant stakeholders representing each functional area and collaborating on a daily basis.

Whilst being autonomous, the different teams of Internal Empowerment are sharing unified ways of working and holistic roadmaps to ensure focus, alignment with the global company strategy, and maximize the overall impact.

What will you do?

As a Product Director, you will manage the team of Product Managers and Product Data Analysts dedicated to Internal Empowerment. Overseeing the product strategy and the execution, as well as collaborating every day with global and local stakeholders across all departments (business, sales, operations, marketing, etc.).

You will facilitate cross-team collaboration and create a motivating vision and strategy for your team's scope and beyond. Your leadership skills will be essential in inspiring your team towards this shared vision.

As Product Director, you and your team will be involved in the key activities outlined below:

Roadmap & strategy: Define clear product strategy and create best-in-class roadmaps for outperforming competitors with innovative and disruptive ideas. Ensure a data-driven journey by prioritizing thoughtfully, establishing clear success metrics and identifying north star metrics.
Product Design & Delivery: Smartly design resilient and scalable solutions, propose cutting-edge innovative design on key functionalities and ensure the impacted stakeholders (internal, external) are up to date with the relevant milestones and any changes to the initial plan.
Product roll-out & continuous improvements: Manage transversal and complex product releases communication having cross-team dependencies. Interact with clients, publishers and agencies on a regular basis to amplify the impacts of the releases. Be comfortable in being strongly involved to define the marketing and business position of your product area.
What will you bring to the team?
Bachelor or Master degree in marketing or engineering
Deep understanding, past experience and high interest in backoffice systems and internal toolings. You like to be a key contributor to the efficiency and the success of all teams
Proven experience of 10+ years as a Product Manager in the ad-tech industry
Strong background in successfully managing teams
Ability to effectively engage and collaborate with key stakeholders and leadership
Ability to efficiently communicate and collaborate with different departments (sales, business, engineering)
Understanding of the product from a technology perspective
Passionate, innovative, and fast learner
Fluent in English and ability to work with cross-functional teams
Lead by example and inspire teams
Why work at Teads?

At Teads, Product and Engineering work hand in hand and are aligned towards the same goal: to scale our business while continuing to create new and exciting products.

We value team spirit, pragmatism, listening and we encourage initiatives.
We promote end-to-end development: "You build it, you run it, you monitor it".
We share knowledge and support with each other beyond any organizational boundary.
We fix issues during a blameless postmortem and learn from it so that it doesn't happen twice.
We are working together to create great engineering, but we are also supportive to promote a great work-life balance.

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Life at Teads

At Teads, we don't just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You'll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.

As a Teadster, you'll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here's why Teads stands out:

We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the 'new' Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
As part of our team, you'll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you'll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.