Director of Product - Online Advertising, Buy-Side - Berlin / Cologne / Remote

Get to know us

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms. eyeo's market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy, while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers. In combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 300 million monthly active users worldwide. eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries with offices in Cologne, Berlin, Toronto and Malmö.

How we work

eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and our company culture. We practice an agile, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional teams that span nearly every timezone. Many of our tech teams prefer to work asynchronously. If working remotely isn't for you, we also have two offices (Cologne and Berlin) that you can choose to work from. Twice a year we come together with our teams for Team Days and once a year we offer an offsite company retreat, Summer Week. By offering remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a hybrid culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

What you'll do

As the product lead for eyeo's buy-side business, you will be instrumental in building an entirely new business unit. You will define the strategy for the unit, and will build both the product and engineering teams to support it. You are a strategist who continuously drives the product vision, strategy and tactics in this area for eyeo's success. Your experience in leading decision-makers in product roles is an invaluable asset to help your team members grow and thrive. You are an ambassador to product management in the company and passionate about building a product culture.

• Drive the creation, maintenance and communication of an overarching product vision and strategy for the product line of the business unit
• Build a new business unit from the ground up, including defining the product strategy and hiring the product and engineering people you need to support it
• Empower your team and ensure they understand and commit to the defined strategy, and actively work towards achieving it
• Ensure the whole product organization collaborates closely with engineering, marketing, and other teams to deliver products that are aligned with our vision, meet market needs, and consistently meet high quality standards
• Ensure we deliver first-class support to our partners, become strategic allies for them and know what they need before they know it
• Grow and mentor your team by promoting and supporting professional development of your colleagues in product in the unit
• Coordinate closely with eyeo's Product Operations team to implement best practices and processes to promote team efficiency and coordination between teams

What you bring to the table...

• A deep understanding of what advertisers and publishers need and a proven track record of defining and executing on product strategy to solve those needs
• Experience in leading and developing product managers
• Experience coaching product managers in product management best practices to raise their skill level and encourage their professional development
• Extensive experience discovering and managing products in a B2B environment in close collaboration with your customers
• Experience working in online advertising or with browser technologies and an understanding of how the web technically works
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Proactive problem solver with a good team attitude
• Strong agile work process background

It's awesome if you know about…

• Experience managing other managers
• Strong technical background
• Buyside network to tap into in the US and Europe

What we offer

• Work remotely or from one of our offices - we trust you to find what works best for you
• Budget for the following: home office and/or relocation
• Flexible working hours
• 28 days paid vacation + Volunteer day
• Sabbatical leave allowance after 2 years
• Your choice of hardware and setup
• Personal and professional development budget
• Monthly child care allowance for children under 6
• Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat
• Company-sponsored hackathons

Helpful links

• Monetization
• eyeo in the news
• Blog updates
• Life at eyeo
• The team at eyeo
• Open Source repository
• Open Source repository

Privacy Notice

eyeo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief. When you apply, you'll be automatically forwarded to our recruitment platform operated by an external service provider called Greenhouse (seated in the US). Greenhouse collects some information on its website, such as anonymous usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. For more information, please refer to Greenhouse's Privacy Policy. All documents and information provided by you are stored with Greenhouse. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, eyeo and Greenhouse have entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses ("processors") - Commission Decision C(2010)593. You can request a copy of this by contacting us at privacy[at]eyeo.com. If you don't want your data forwarded to Greenhouse, please do not apply. For detailed and further information, please refer to our Privacy Policy at Privacy Policy.