Director of Product, Cloud

Index Exchange•New York, NY

About The Position

As an independent and transparent leader in ad tech, Index Exchange is always pushing the boundaries of how advertising is bought and sold. We’re now building a bespoke, ad tech-focused cloud infrastructure—designed from the ground up to optimize advertising efficiency, privacy, and scale. On top of this foundation, we’re creating a development platform layer that allows innovative start-ups, data partners, and other companies to build applications and services that enhance programmatic transactions and outcomes. We’re looking for a Director of Product, Cloud to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for this critical growing product line. This is a rare opportunity to architect something unlike any public cloud—a purpose-built ad tech platform engineered to power privacy-first advertising, AI-based optimization, and future-ready transaction models. In this role, you’ll design the products and services that support a new offering in the market, with early proven success. You’ll partner with engineering and external innovators to build a cost-effective, high-performance, and extensible platform. If you’re a technical product leader with deep expertise cloud architecture and scalable infrastructure, and an interest in the advertising ecosystem, this is your chance to redefine the infrastructure layer of programmatic advertising. This role starts as an individual contributor with the opportunity to build and lead a team as the product line scales.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent on cloud infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products
Track record of taking a product from early stage through to scale
Experience in a high-autonomy environment—whether at a startup, a growth-stage company, or in a role at a larger org where you operated with significant independence and owned outcomes end-to-end
Preferably based in or willing to relocate to Toronto or New York; flexibility for occasional travel
Product Development Mentality: You’re looking to make change through shipping excellent software that makes a big impact to your product. You love product development, including the basics—customer research, writing acceptance criteria, triaging bugs—and you find that work energizing rather than beneath you.
Cloud Infrastructure Experience: You have hands-on product experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Akamai/Linode, or similar) and a working understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, edge computing, and distributed systems. Ideally you've built products on or for these platforms, not just deployed to them. Ad tech experience is a plus, but deep cloud infrastructure knowledge is the priority.
Proactivity: You identify what needs to happen and move on it. You can rally engineers, work across teams, support delivery, and drive adoption in market. Fundamentally, you see an opportunity or an issue, and you act on it.
Technical Depth: You engage deeply on architecture decisions and understand the trade-offs of different infrastructure approaches. You’re comfortable reading technical docs, reviewing system designs, and working at Internet scale where small decisions have outsized downstream effects. Our engineering team is strong and opinionated; you’ll be a better product leader here if you can partner closely with them and work together.
Adaptability: You’ll work directly with senior leadership, including our CEO, on product direction. That means eing confident enough to advocate for your perspective and pragmatic enough to adapt when the business calls for a different approach.
Customer Orientation: Your customers here are the partners building on our containerized platform—DSPs, data vendors, curation platforms, and other buy-side participants running code in our infrastructure. You’ll need to understand their technical needs deeply and translate them into product priorities

Responsibilities

Delivering on the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Index’s cloud and containerization platform, and taking it from early-stage definition through to a scaled business line
Driving the product development for our containerized compute environment, enabling partners to run their decisioning logic (bidding algorithms, curation, data activation) directly within Index’s infrastructure at the edge
Working hands-on with Engineering to define technical requirements, make architecture trade-offs, and ship iteratively
Engaging directly with platform partners (DSPs, data providers, agencies, curation platforms, and more) to understand their technical requirements and shape the product accordingly
Contributing to Index’s participation in the IAB Tech Lab’s Agentic RTB Framework (ARTF), helping define industry standards for containerized ad decisioning
Making tough prioritization calls with imperfect data. This includes saying “no” to good ideas that won’t move the needle, and doubling down on the ones that will
Collaborating across functions, including but not limited to Engineering, TechOps, Product Marketing, and Commercial teams, to ensure successful product delivery and go-to-market
Working closely with senior leadership, including C-level partners, to align product direction with company strategy, adapting your approach as business priorities evolve
Defining success metrics, instrumentation, and feedback loops so you can measure what’s working and iterate quickly

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
Competitive retirement matching plans
Equity packages
Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
Employee assistance program
Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment