Director, Strategy Ops

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Summary

As part of the Ads Product & Engineering organization at Samsung Ads you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the products and platforms that support and drive the hyper growth of the ads business and achieve our multi-billion-dollar annual revenue goals. You will partner with stakeholders to identify ideate and build solutions that solve our users pain points and drive business value. You are an autonomous self-starter that can lead inspire and resolve ambiguity across many stakeholders and competing interests. You are organized thorough and detailed being a trusted partner to engineers to build and release features that users love. You are comfortable in a fast-paced constantly changing environment and can interface with teams spread across the globe.
The Product Strategy & Planning role will help own and drive the strategic agenda for the company across a broad portfolio of ad products spanning Connected TV mobile gaming and native TV advertising. This role will be responsible for a variety of different tasks that are central to the Ads P&E organization including organizational planning budget oversight long-term strategic planning annual product planning product portfolio governance and business and organizational KPI monitoring and governance. This role will work with a number of key partner teams within and outside of Ads P&E in executing against these areas including Product Management Product Operations Finance BD and Samsung HQ.

Role and Responsibilities

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Key Responsibilities and Expectations

Create and maintain a compelling vision for product strategy across the portfolio of Samsung Ads product areas considering mid-to-long term time horizons
Evaluation of key market opportunities competitive assessment and industry trending through various modeling and analytical techniques
Partnerships and M&A evaluation for key strategic gap areas as defined within mid-to-long term strategic vision
Organizational planning and oversight including benchmarking talent evaluation and long-term organizational planning in alignment to strategy and financial planning
Ad-hoc strategic projects as needed in partnership with key stakeholders
Define goals and measurable success metrics
Be the subject matter expert within and across product areas knowledgeable across strategic technical and business aspects
Make clear concise trade-off decisions when competing priorities arise
Communicate the strategy plans and progress to stakeholders across a variety of teams and audiences
Foster a culture of trust openness collaboration and inclusiveness

Competencies and Skills

Navigate a large fast-paced and multicultural organization
Ability to organize and structure information and analysis into a clear and coherent narrative
Comfort operating within a constantly changing industry
Ability to evangelize and advocate for ideas and initiatives in a highly impactful and influential manner across a diverse group of stakeholders at various levels of the organization
Understanding of business impact and drivers for products and features
Manage high number of stakeholders and competing interests
Technologically literate and able to be subject matter expert on your product
Clear concise written and verbal communication skills appropriate to audience and content
Understanding of ad tech ecosystem or equivalency in adjacent area ability to understand complex relationships across and between component areas

Technical Proficiencies (languages tools systems etc.)

Familiarity with JIRA Confluence or equivalent product management and planning tools
Basic statistical analysis and revenue forecasting/modeling competency

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications (education certificates special training etc.) and Experience (years & background)

Minimum 12 years of related experience and a Bachelors degree or 10 years and a Masters degree or a PhD with 7 years experience
5 combined years in strategy product program or project management
2 years of experience related to advertising technology
Deep understanding of CPM/CPI/CPA/ROAS advertising products
Experience with long-term business planning and strategy in a comparable industry/area
Deep understanding of user retention LTV and ROI
Knowledge of Ad tech architecture systems a plus (DSP SSP ad serving etc.)
Track record of delivering successful and significant software products
Passion for building disruptive products in fast-paced cross-functional environment
3 year(s) of experience working at an advertising technology company *preferred*
1 year(s) of management consulting experience *preferred*
Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) *preferred*

Compensation for this role for candidates based in Los Angeles & is expected to be between $160000 $200000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience and comparison to other employees in the role.

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance 401(k) Employee Purchase Program Tuition Assistance (after 6 months) Paid Time Off Student Loan Program (after 6 months) Wellness Incentives and many more.
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Position SummaryAs part of the Ads Product & Engineering organization at Samsung Ads you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the products and platforms that support and drive the hyper growth of the ads business and achieve our multi-billion-dollar annual revenue goals. You wi...