Head of Product – Advertising Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Indonesia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product vision and roadmap for advertising within The Economist’s digital platforms.

• Oversee and prioritize the advertising product backlog, guiding a specialized product squad.

• Articulate how advertising integrates seamlessly within a subscription-driven, editorial-focused environment.

• Lead the technical product management of the advertising stack across web, applications, newsletters, and Espresso.

• Determine how first-party data is ethically utilized to enhance targeting, measurement, and performance, in accordance with privacy, consent, and trust standards.

• Guarantee that advertising products are scalable, efficient, compliant with privacy regulations, and ready for the future.

• Collaborate closely with the Global Head of Advertising to align commercial strategies with product functionalities.

• Spearhead the discovery, design, delivery, and optimization of advertising formats, sponsorships, and integrations.

• Establish clear benchmarks for ad quality, placement, relevance, and user experience.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to outline architecture and integrations that balance effective ad delivery with exceptional content performance and user experience.

• Partner with Revenue Operations to refine ad-related workflows and minimize operational complexities.

• Manage relationships with essential ad tech vendors and platforms, ensuring alignment with first-party data-driven strategies.

• Create feedback mechanisms between sales, editorial, product, and operations to foster continuous enhancement.

• Clearly communicate product strategy, trade-offs, and progress to senior stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience managing complex, platform-level products.

• Profound understanding of digital advertising systems, particularly first-party data-driven models.

• Strong judgment in balancing monetization with user experience and trust.

• Comfortable engaging deeply with engineers regarding architecture, data flows, and trade-offs.

• Experience with audience data, consent frameworks, and measurement systems.

• Capable of providing direction while driving execution through teams.

• Comprehends how advertising products create value for clients and the business.

• Effective collaborator with editorial, sales, operations, and technology leaders.

• Able to articulate complex decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Comfortable making prioritization decisions in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

• Experience with ad servers, programmatic platforms, and sponsorship products.

• Strong understanding of first-party data strategies in premium or subscription-based settings.

• Familiarity with privacy, consent, identity, and regulatory requirements in digital advertising.

• Proven experience delivering products across multiple platforms (web, app, email).

• Passionate about The Economist’s mission and editorial standards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan.

• Private health insurance.

• 24/7 access to counseling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program.

• Work From Anywhere program allowing you to work from any location for up to 25 days per year.

• Generous annual and parental leave.

• Dedicated days off for volunteering.

• Days off for relocating.

• Free access to all The Economist content, including an online subscription, apps, podcasts, and more.