Product Team Leader

At Optimove, we believe people are capable of more than a single job description. You're not hired just to fill a position- you're empowered to shape it, grow it, and make it your own.
We call this being Positionless.
And Positionless isn't just our culture. It's our product.
Optimove is the creator of Positionless Marketing, an AI-powered platform that gives every marketer the power to analyze, create, launch, and optimize independently. The result is faster execution, deeper personalization, and 88% greater campaign efficiency.
Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant, we partner with leading brands like Sephora, Staples, and Entain. Today, more than 550 Optimovers across NYC, London, Tel Aviv, Scotland, Brazil, Estonia, and beyond are building the future of marketing together, in an environment that actively encourages ownership and growth, with two out of every three managers promoted from within.
If you're looking for a place where you can do more, be more, come grow with us.

Optimove is redefining the customer relationship management landscape, and we're building the foundational data platform that powers everything we do. We are looking for a passionate and experienced Data Platform Product Team Leader to own and lead the strategic direction of Optimove's Data Platform product team.

This is a rare dual role — a hands-on product leader who both manages a team of 2-4 Product Managers and directly drives product work across several engineering teams. You will lead the full lifecycle of the data layer that underpins Optimove: from how data flows in, through identity resolution and real-time event processing, to data activation for segmentation, sharing data back to clients, and building predictive behavioral models on top of it. Your work touches every team in Optimove and every customer we serve.

What You'll Own

The Data Platform team covers a wide and critical product surface:

Data Ingestion — how customer data flows into Optimove from various sources, including batch and real-time event streams, to build a near-real-time single customer profile
Identity Resolution & Matching — connecting fragmented customer identities into unified profiles at scale
Data Activation — powering Optimove's segmentation engine with fast, reliable access to customer data
Data Sharing — exposing enriched data back to clients via APIs, exports, and integrations
Predictive Modeling — building behavioral and predictive models that drive intelligent marketing decisions
What You'll Do

Leadership & Management

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 2–4 Product Managers, setting a high bar for product craft, discovery, and execution
Build a strong team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and a bias for impact
Set the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Data Platform — and ensure each PM on your team drives their area forward with clarity and urgency
Represent the Data Platform as a cross-functional partner to engineering leadership, GTM, and executive stakeholders

Hands-On Product Work

Personally own product strategy and execution for one or more engineering teams within the Data Platform domain
Lead deep discovery work — from customer interviews and data analysis to technical deep-dives with engineering and architecture teams
Translate complex infrastructure, big data, and platform challenges into clear product requirements, KPIs, and roadmaps
Drive cross-functional alignment across all teams that depend on or consume the Data Platform

Technical & Platform Leadership

Champion system-level thinking: scalability, reliability, data quality, and low-latency performance
Work closely with engineers and architects on high-scale, distributed, event-driven systems
Balance platform-level (internal) needs with customer-facing UI/UX aspects of data products
Stay current on industry trends in CDPs, data infrastructure, identity resolution, and real-time analytics
What We're Looking For
8–10+ years of overall industry experience, with at least 5–7 years in B2B Product Management, ideally in SaaS, data platforms, CDPs, or infrastructure products
1–2+ years of people management experience — you've mentored or managed PMs and know how to grow product talent
A seasoned product professional who brings both domain depth (data infrastructure, big data, platform engineering) and the organizational maturity to lead a team, influence across the company, and earn the trust of senior engineering and business stakeholders
Strong technical background — comfortable engaging with engineering on event streaming, real-time processing, distributed systems, data pipelines, identity resolution, and APIs
Deep passion for big data infrastructure, platform-level products, and the challenges of building systems used by many consumers simultaneously
Experience owning complex backend or platform-level products with both internal-platform and customer-facing dimensions
Exceptional Product Discovery skills — you turn ambiguous, hard problems into structured, validated product directions
Track record of cross-functional leadership — you align diverse stakeholders and drive outcomes without always having direct authority
Self-driven, intellectually curious, and motivated to operate in both a leadership and a hands-on capacity simultaneously

Advantage

Previous experience as an engineer or architect
Why Join Us?

This is one of the highest-leverage product roles at Optimove. The Data Platform is the engine everything else runs on — and you will define its future. If you love building at scale, thrive on technical depth, care deeply about your team, and want a role where your work shapes every product and every customer experience across the company — let's talk.