Director of Monetization Loc:- Carlsbad, CA or New York City
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
About Us:
- Sits at the crossroads of semantic search and natural language processing technologies.
- Our patented, proprietary technology powers our comprehensive search platform designed to meet the needs of mobile operators, phone manufacturers, and distributors.
- We generate new revenue opportunities for our partners through our web-scale mobile search and browser solutions by delivering quality results, content, video and search ads, while offering a superior end user experience.
- Provides a new way to get knowledge, answers and revenue through our search technologies that are equipped with a vast collection of data, algorithms, and methods.
- About the Opportunity:We are a dynamic company looking for our next great hire to join our team in either Carlsbad, California or New York City.
- Embraces the fun, agility and innovation of a startup culture while enjoying the security of having technology already deployed with a large and rapidly growing customer base.
- This is a rare chance to take your career to the next level in one of today's hottest tech industries.
- Our goals include building a compelling search experience for mobile devices and applying state of the art artificial intelligence approaches to understand natural language in order to deliver the best search engine in multiple languages for select markets.
- This is a unique opportunity to tackle complex problems usually reserved for a handful of large companies in the search industry.
- Is looking for a Director of Monetization who is a highly motivated, creative problem solver with expert knowledge of what works - and what does not work - in the digital advertising space.
- The Director of Monetization will help to define and drive our digital monetization strategy, working with external advertising, technology, and agency partners together with teams to orchestrate changes necessary to convert our growing search user traffic into revenue.
- Analyze current search monetization results, compare them with industry benchmarks, and define a cohesive strategy for monetizing the growth in users and search query volumes that we have on the way.
- Leverage candidates past experience and relationships to identify new advertising, data, and technology partners and work to establish strong partner relationships to help fuel our success.
- Identify, design, and execute A/B tests to identify ways to improve click through and cost per click rates via changes to ad providers, changes to the user interface, etc.
- Work with the rest of the Product Management team to identify new product features that improve the product user experience while providing other monetization opportunities and drive these from ideas to execution.
- Partner with the Business Development team to build relationships to sell ad inventory directly through major ad agencies and local agencies in markets we serve.
- Work with the Account Development and Ad Operations teams to empower wireless carrier customers to sell ads in their local markets, leveraging their local relationships and resources.
- Bachelors degree in relevant field 10+ years of product management, ad operations, digital advertising, revenue operations, and/or business development experience
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) Action oriented, organized and analytical
- Experience influencing and leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects
- Ability to establish effective industry and/or technology partner relationships Hands-on experience optimizing ad inventory across multiple sources based on data
- Strong understanding of the mobile ad tech ecosystem, preferably with sell side experience with a major media company or agency.
- Experience with mobile ad networks, different ad formats (search, display, video, mobile), affiliate programs, and data monetization would be especially valuablePreferred
- Masters degree / MBA in relevant field