Director of Ad/Media Solutions

We are building next-generation digital media products that connect travel brands with the right audience across the booking journey. As our Director of Ad/Media Solutions, you will define and lead the roadmap for a suite of media capabilities enabling targeted campaigns to buyers and agents across the travel ecosystem and new revenue opportunities for platforms used to service travel demand generation.

You’ll combine your experience in travel distribution, digital media, and affiliate program administration to create solutions that drive a measurable impact for our partners and relevant targeted experiences for travelers and travel buyers.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with the travel ecosystem: Work closely with TMCs, OBTs, loyalty/ travel redemption platforms, and other traveler and travel buyers facing digital media to find opportunities for supply-side partners and travel media buyers to reach their desired audiences creating mutual benefit and monetizable capabilities. Identify high-intent traveler moments across these channels to place display ads, sponsored listings, or personalized promotional placements that support supplier objectives such as brand visibility, ancillary upsell or booking incentives.
• Define & execute ad/media solutions strategy: Lead vision, prioritization, and validation of the effectiveness of new digital media capabilities aligned with commercial goals, market insights, and user needs. This includes programmatic media integrations, contextual targeting, and native advertising formats that align with traveler personas and stages of the booking journey.
• Deliver traveler/travel buyer-centric media value: Use a measure-learn-apply loop to continuously refine offerings based on user feedback, measured media performance, and partner insights. Champion the use of first-party travel data, including search and booking intent signals, to power more relevant targeting, content curation, and ad personalization.
• Drive cross-functional execution: Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and commercial teams to bring innovative media products to market — balancing short-term delivery priorities with long-term platform evolution. Collaborate with cloud and data engineering teams to ensure scalable access to curated datasets for ad decisioning, performance analytics, and real-time campaign targeting.
• Own performance metrics: Define and analyze KPIs and use data to steer optimization and growth strategies. Metrics may include CTR, conversion uplift, ROAS, and partner satisfaction, tailored for different formats such as video ads, interactive banners, or sponsored hotel placements.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of related professional experience, including:
• Product management experience, including full product lifecycle ownership.
• Commercial accountability/significant contributor to business outcomes and measurement of results.
• Regular engagement with digital media, advertising technology, or commerce media as a consumer, admin, or integrator capacity.
• Travel distribution (e.g., GDS, OTA, TMC, or B2B travel platforms or on the supply side with distribution or marketing technology experience).
• Experience with programmatic ad ecosystems including DSPs, SSPs, and DMPs — ideally with hands-on exposure to campaign setup, targeting logic, or yield optimization.
• Familiarity with monetization strategies such as inventory-based ad sales, dynamic sponsored listings, contextual display, and promotional content partnerships.
• Experience working on cross-platform products (web, mobile, API-based platforms).
• Demonstrated use of data and experimentation to guide product strategy and decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills — especially across technical and commercial teams and in partner-facing roles.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with GDS, NDC, or direct supplier integrations.
• Understanding of retail media networks, dynamic ad targeting, or travel demand signals.
• Familiarity with tools like Rally or JIRA, Figma, Looker, BigQuery.
• Passion for building products that power commerce in travel — not just display ads, but media experiences that drive bookings and loyalty.
• Knowledge of hospitality and airline marketing budgets, ad-tech monetization models, and media buying behavior among travel brands.
• Experience building dashboards or reports for campaign analytics, media attribution, or predictive targeting based on traveler segments.

Who You Are

• A strategic thinker with a builder’s mindset — you bring clarity to complex systems and execute with speed and precision.
• A collaborator and connector — you love working across engineering, marketing, and sales teams.
• Curious and data-driven — you ask good questions and use data to improve what you build.
• A natural problem solver — comfortable navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, and high-stakes product decisions.
• Scaling ability – you have the drive to grow the business significantly while working through a matrix organization of a large company

Reasonable Accommodation

Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com.

Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Affirmative Action

Sabre is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW