Director Product, Advertising

We’re now excited to look for a Product Director, AdTech. This is a newly created role where you’ll lead a dedicated team of senior product managers, driving innovation and growth in an ever-evolving industry. At Skyscanner, we pride ourselves on being at the intersection of global scale and continuous innovation. Whilst we’re a well-established brand, the job is never done, and we’re still growing and shaping the future of travel and ad technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of our proprietary, native Advertising platform end-to-end. Using advertising industry knowledge to ensure the platform and frontend products are fit for purpose for both performance and mid/upper funnel brand advertising.
• Using industry experience and market insights to develop and implement the product strategy for Advertising at Skyscanner from Data analytics, ML delivery and recommendations, platform self-service and B2C product builds.
• Providing leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of product, engineering, design, and data science, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Leading all aspects of the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Working closely with key team members, including commercial, product, and executive leadership, to gather input, communicate product updates and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Establishing key performance indicators, regularly assessing the performance against these and changing course to improve financial success, if needed.
• Developing, maintaining and evangelizing a comprehensive product roadmap that reflects short-term and long-term business goals.
• Mentoring and leading a high-performing product management team.
• Encouraging a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the product organisation.
• Be a cultural ambassador and influential leader in the organisation

 About You

• Deep Product management experience, with a specialism in product development/product management of advertising technology, focused on proprietary native platform builds.
• Solid understanding of sophisticated advertising technology and its development
• Proven track record of working with external advertising partners at a senior level
• Exceptional stakeholder and project management skills, with a proven track record of leading multiple stakeholder groups and delivering products at scale, influencing cross-functionally  at  a senior level, in an effective way.
• An ability to autonomously solve previously unidentified and ambiguous business problems through strategic think and data analysis.
• Proficiency in using data to drive decision-making (including conducting experiments and A/B tests, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics).
• Excellent written, oral communication and social skills.
• Strong personal work ethic, including personal initiative and ownership.
• Sufficient technical background to optimally work with engineering teams.
• Confident in applying a lean and agile approach, ensuring we test, learn, and embrace failure while scaling success.
• Experience in identifying and addressing blockers to growth, and handling these effectively in a collaborative way.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to gain buy-in and approval up to board level.

The role can be based from either our Edinburgh or Barcelona Office.