Head of Supply Strategy & Operations, Amazon DSP

Amazon • New York, NY

25d

About The Position

Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand
advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions—including
sponsored, display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and
insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily
journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including
self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help
businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more.

The Head of Supply Strategy & Operations will own the technical health and
integrations with Amazon DSP’s largest supply partners that enable Amazon’s
advertiser customers to realize the scale and performance of programmatic
advertising. You will be expected to establish a vision and key priorities and
success metrics for the program, make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time to
market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes
to internal and cross-functional partner teams. Core skill areas for this role
include data collection and analytics; familiarity with industry trends
including supply path optimization, SSAI, and live events; advertiser support;
product requirements gathering and managing and growing the team. You will be
responsible for the end-to-end customer experience on supply within Amazon DSP
and work with stakeholders across the advertising organization, from marketing
to product to finance. You will help define our future strategy and will design
and implement program direction to ensure we are enabling business growth. You
have excellent communication skills and judgment and are comfortable
evangelizing our supply side capabilities and services with a wide range of
senior business and technical leaders inside and outside Amazon.

You will have the opportunity to influence the way Amazon Advertising manages ad
campaigns across hundreds of thousands of CTV apps, web sites and mobile apps
around the world, in support of a wide range of fast-growing advertising
programs. This role is based in New York, and will collaborate heavily with
partner teams in Seattle and Palo Alto

Requirements

• 7+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of managing a technical team of solution architects, sales engineers or similar technical roles experience
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of digital advertising, product marketing, consulting, business development, or other customer-facing role experience
• Experience building and managing teams
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines
• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in SQL Server/MySQL and experience in Oracle DB
• Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, or experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines
• Experience in marketing, brand advertising, media sales or online advertising work and close work with senior advertisers and agency stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own our supply strategy and integrations globally
• Understand the voice of the advertiser and how they think about media buying and supply activation and ensure our products deliver against core customer needs
• Define the success metrics for the program and track performance. Utilize metrics to dive deep on issues and uncover business trends and anomalies.
• Dive deep into the integrations to assess health and efficiency
• Partner with industry leading publishers and SSPs and act as a programmatic expert and advocate internally, understanding current and future capabilities to aid with prioritization
• Work with business, product, and engineering leaders to build and execute a strategic business plan aligned with long-term objectives
• Act as liaison to the industry driving adoption of industry standards internally
• Influence industry bodies in accordance with Amazon Advertising priorities

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager