VP, Product Management – Pubs Products

Taboola is seeking a highly motivated and experienced VP of Product for Pubs Products to join our dynamic leadership team. Reporting directly to the SVP of Tech, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing Taboola’s product strategy and vision for both Publishers Products and Taboola Supply. In this role, you will pioneer an innovative, AI-powered strategy that leverages our network advantage to deliver unparalleled performance advertising solutions while strengthening our strategic, long-standing publisher relationships in a competitive, evolving digital media landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for Taboola’s Publishers and Supply Products.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the Senior Executive Team and other senior leaders to ensure alignment with broader business objectives.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of product managers and product analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Product Prioritization: Oversee the product prioritization process and make data-driven decisions to focus on the most critical projects.
• Collaboration with Internal Teams: Work in close partnership with engineering, sales, marketing, and research teams to drive successful product development and launches.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Engage with go-to-market and customer-facing teams to gather insights and feedback on customer needs.
• Market Awareness: Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive landscape and industry trends to continuously inform product strategy.
• Executive Contribution: Provide strategic insights and recommendations to the Senior Executive Team, contributing to the overall product vision and long-term business success.

Qualifications:

Proven Product Leadership
10+ years of product management experience in digital publishing, ad tech, or media industries, with a demonstrable track record of launching and scaling innovative products that drive both publisher traffic and monetization. The scope of the work is both inbound as well as outbound. We expect this person to have experience in go-to-market at scale. We also expect a lot of experience working internally with the business. Deep Industry Expertise:Extensive understanding of publishers’ business models and challenges—including shifting content consumption habits—and a passion for empowering publishers to maintain high-quality content while effectively monetizing their digital assets.

• Innovative & Strategic Vision:Ability to craft and execute a bold product vision that leverages advanced AI and generative AI (genAI) technologies to create differentiated, data-driven solutions. Experience in designing personalized recommendation systems, content management tools, and monetization platforms is highly desirable
• Technical & Data-Driven Acumen:Proficiency with modern product analytics, A/B testing, and user data interpretation to inform strategic decisions. Familiarity with first-party data integration and large-scale digital platform operations is essential.
• Cross-Functional Leadership:Exceptional skills in leading diverse, cross-disciplinary teams—including engineering, data science, design, and sales/marketing—to deliver complex products in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Customer-Centric Mindset:A deep understanding of what publishers care about—specifically, driving traffic and optimizing revenue streams. Demonstrated ability to translate publisher needs into innovative product features (e.g. enhancing products like Taboola Feed, Newsroom, Backstage, and monetization solutions) that resonate with both publishers and advertisers.
• Dual-Sided Marketplace Expertise (an advantage):Proven experience in managing and innovating within a dual-sided marketplace. Leverage Taboola’s unique, proprietary network of both publishers and advertisers to build performance advertising solutions that not only drive measurable outcomes for advertisers but also nurture our strategic, long-term relationships with publishers—our most distinct competitive asset
• Creative Problem Solving:A highly creative and entrepreneurial approach to tackling the challenges inherent in a rapidly transforming media landscape, ensuring that new products not only meet current demands but also anticipate future trends in content consumption and monetization

About Taboola 

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.
Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale. 

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 Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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