Global Product Director, Emerging Markets

2 Months ago • 6 Years + • Product

Job Summary

Job Description

The Global Product Director, Emerging Markets will lead product development and localization efforts for the MENA, China Outbound, and India regions. Responsibilities include product scoping and strategy, platform and data partnerships, collaboration with central product teams, and working with local trading teams on execution strategies to build scalable and competitive market-leading products. The initial focus will be on building MiQ Mobile offering for Emerging Markets. The director will also ensure products deliver against objectives, manage product roadmaps and budgets, lead product localization, and drive continuous improvements across the product and tech organization. This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of Product development experience
  • 3+ years' experience in leadership roles
  • Experience setting up and driving a new product area
  • Experience in scaling up platforms and/or ecosystem products
  • Experience leading Product and / or Engineering teams
  • Experience of full product lifecycle
  • Experience negotiating multiple medium to large contracts/partnerships
  • Managing and leading teams across multiple markets and functions
  • Proven strategic leadership skills including goal-setting, road mapping, and resourcing plans
  • Experience presenting to senior executive audiences
  • Experience creating budget sheets and managing a budget for a department
Perks:
  • Opportunity to ideate, design and build products that will accelerate business growth in the most strategically critical & challenging regions for MiQ

Job Details

Job Title: Global Product Director, Emerging Markets
Location: Singapore, China or Hong Kong

We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. We’re experts in data science, analytics and programmatic trading, and we’re always ready to react and solve challenges quickly, to make sure our clients are always spending their media investments on the right things in the right places.

Our business keeps growing and we keep getting better because we keep hiring new, smart people. People who can challenge conventions and shake things up. People who want to connect with people all over the world to make great things happen. People who are as excited by the opportunities of programmatic marketing as us.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Product Director to lead and manage our product development and localization efforts for the MENA, China Outbound and India regions. The role will involve leading on product scoping & strategy, platform, data & supply partnerships, close collaboration & alignment with central product and various CoE teams and working closely with local trading teams on execution strategies with a view to build scalable, sustainable and competitive market-leading products.

The initial focus will be on building the MiQ Mobile offering for Emerging Markets – with a specific focus on creating a competitive & scalable Mobile Performance offering.

What you’ll do:

DELIVERING PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

  • Ensure all Products under your Portfolio are delivering against product objectives and market OKRs – as per set timelines
  • Own and communicate Product & Tech roadmap internally and externally periodically
  • Manage budget for Product team, 3rd party vendors and data partners (where applicable), product forecasts, resourcing plans and strategic priorities – in collaboration with Central Product and Market Leads
  • Reviews progress on quarterly and annual OKRs, hold relevant teams accountable, understand themes of challenges and intervene to help and support teams
  • Lead on product localisation for MENA, India and China Outbound markets – including training, localisation of collateral (in collaboration with Marketing)
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product, marketing, sales, trading, account management and CoE teams
  • Relentlessly pursues adoption of best practices in product management across different work streams, continuously evaluates how teams are operating and ensures consistency & timely project delivery

PRODUCT & BUSINESS STRATEGY

  • Collaborate with regional market leads, Central Product and Operations lead on product strategy and priorities for MENA, China Outbound and India
  • Translate regional strategy into a product & tech wide strategy with key priorities and goals. Communicates to Central Product & Tech (CoE) and commercial stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of company and business goals, defines Product & Tech strategy, themes and goals aligned to that
  • Analyse product utilisation data and make recommendations related to regional product strategies and processes
  • Initiate and drive continuous improvements across product & tech org
  • Based on new / evolving industry trends, identify opportunities for new product development or enhancement of existing products & solutions

PARTNERSHIP SCOPING

  • Identify, negotiate & implement new partnerships with relevant platforms, data and supply vendors across India, China Outbound and MENA – in alignment with Central Product and local operations lead
  • Manage partnerships with a view to constantly monitor value exchange and focus only on partnerships driving value for MiQ and its clients
  • Lead contract negotiations with external vendors in alignment with Central Product, Local market leads and Operations lead
  • In collaboration with Operations lead, scope activation & operational nuances of product implementation/delivery
  • Ensure alignment with MiQ legal, tech
  • Evangelize and support the adoption of global partnerships in collaboration with local trading, product, and commercial teams

LEAD & GUIDE

  • Provides clear direction on how Product & Tech drive towards the business vision and objectives
  • Builds an effective team of Product Leads
  • Leads discussions and healthy debate with Product & Tech and stakeholders around business, product & tech wide opportunities and challenges

GAIN FOLLOWERSHIP & INSPIRE 

  • Can inspire across the business with Product & Tech wide visions and strategy
  • Negotiate and gain advocacy from local market leads and operations lead
  • Is recognized within MiQ and/or outside as a product and domain evangelist
  • Consistently puts their neck on the line to meet business deliverables and expectations across multiple products or product lines
  • Create a product team culture that inspires and motivates the whole team

INNOVATE ACROSS MiQ

  • Thought leader on product for Emerging Markets
  • Identifies opportunities across MiQ functions, validates and brings them to the Product org
  • Identifies opportunities and product wide areas of growth, building out board and exec level proposals

What you’ll bring:

TENURE

  • 6+ years of Product development experience
  • 3+ years’ experience in leadership roles related to product development/management (e.g., Head, Principal, Lead, Director, EVP, VP etc.)

PRODUCT

  • Experience setting up & driving a new product area in an established product and technology team
  • Experience in scaling up platforms and/or ecosystem products
  • Experience leading Product and / or Engineering teams
  • Experience of full product lifecycle (development, introduction, growth, maturity, saturation, and decline) across products and features
  • Experience negotiating multiple medium to large contracts/partnerships

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

  • Managing and leading teams across multiple markets and functions
  • Proven strategic leadership skills including goal-setting, road mapping, and resourcing plans
  • Experience presenting to senior executive audiences
  • Experience building teams ground up and managing individual performance effectively
  • Proven track record of managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders in a rigorous and timely manner (track record of delivering complex projects on time is a must)
  • Experience creating budget sheets and managing a budget for a department

PERSONAL TRAITS & SKILL

  • Open to travel - APAC, UAE & UK
  • High degree of self-motivation
  • Excellent prioritization & organizational skills
  • Eagerness to work in a ‘start-up’ environment that will rapidly iterate, an entrepreneur
  • Professional verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
  • Evidence of strong people management, employee development and building high performing teams
  • Ability to excite and influence stakeholders across all departments and markets
  • Alignment with MiQ's core values/culture
  • A can-do attitude, with a dream to grow alongside us

What’s in it for you :
Opportunity to ideate, design and build products that will accelerate business growth in the most strategically critical & challenging regions for MiQ – China, India and MENA.

Values:

Our values are so much more than statements. They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we naturally live and breathe them. Just like inclusivity, our values flow through everything we do - no matter how big or small.

  • We do what we love - Passion
  • We figure it out - Determination
  • We anticipate the unexpected - Agility
  • We hold each other accountable - Unity
  • We dare to be unconventional - Courage

 

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We’re not your average programmatic media partner, and it's because excellence is in our DNA. Since 2010, our agnostic approach has leveraged the best buying platforms, ad inventory, and audience intelligence in the world, ensuring we deliver first-class service and unmatched performance on brand and agency ad campaigns. Our technology puts sophisticated AI in the hands of our industry experts to make unbiased decisions that never compromise on reach, ROI, quality, or insight. With the largest footprint of TV data and solutions across all channels and verticals, we’re leading the programmatic industry, and making it better.

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