Director of Product - Ads

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We’re looking for an experienced Director of Product to join our Ads product team. This team is responsible for managing the end-to-end Ads experience at SoundCloud, leading a critically important line of business for the company. This individual will work with cross-functional partners to own and innovate upon our ad-serving logic & algorithms, manage existing formats including video, audio, and display, and develop new placements and products across Web, iOS, and Android.

As a Director of Product on the Ads team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating the trajectory of SoundCloud’s global business by working across teams in Berlin, London, New York, and Los Angeles to execute and drive impact. This role requires excellent problem-solving intuition, self-motivation to identify and build empathy for user needs, concise & simple communication across both technical and leadership stakeholders, and a principled approach to execution in pursuit of business impact. 

More than anything, you’re passionate about leveraging your expertise in the ads industry to strike the right balance between user and business needs, and take pride in building great consumer ads products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities to grow SoundCloud’s ads business through an understanding of user needs, business needs, and technical feasibility
• Lead adoption of the ads industry's best practices to drive innovation and facilitate a best-in-class global business, including support across platforms, resellers, and partners
• Maximize ad yield given available inventory, and unlock new inventory, through optimization of the ads experience across mobile & web
• Drive end-to-end execution of projects from concept through prioritization, design, build, launch, experimentation, and iteration
• Work closely with the engineering, design, data, research, marketing, and business teams to ensure requirements are well-defined, clear, and aligned with strategic goals
• Attend and actively contribute to the cross-functional team ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions
• Be the go-to person for day-to-day management of features and capabilities within the payments platform, addressing team inquiries and managing day-to-day operations
• Act as a liaison, communicate outcomes, and manage tradeoffs amongst multiple feature teams and stakeholders, including SoundCloud’s executive team and senior leadership 

Experience and Background:

• Bachelor's degree or work experience in a relevant field with 8+ years of product management experience, with a consistent track record of launches and quantifiable wins
• Significant industry expertise working with ad-tech & ads products
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions
• Experience working closely with engineers, designers, and data scientists
• Familiarity with core mobile, web, and backend applications
• Thorough, detail-oriented, and organized, with the ability to lead multiple projects in parallel
• Outstanding verbal and written communication, as well as a high level of comfort leading workshops and presentations with a diverse group of stakeholders and teams

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $220,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• Robust 401k program
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.