Senior Product Owner

Role Overview

Join the Global:IQ team as a Senior Product Owner, where you'll drive the evolution of an advanced intelligence platform that integrates first-party and partner data to create audience insights and optimize media strategies across audio and out-of-home advertising.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the vision and development roadmap for automated intelligence products focusing on ad targeting, creative optimization, and advertising measurement, shaping how Global:IQ revolutionizes advertising offerings.
• Steer initiatives involving data and artificial intelligence from conceptual stages through deployment, ensuring machine learning solutions address real advertiser needs effectively.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog by crafting clear user stories and acceptance criteria to guide a large cross-functional team.
• Perform direct data analysis using SQL tools such as Snowflake and BigQuery to support product validation and decision-making without reliance on intermediaries.
• Foster innovation via prototyping, early stakeholder testing, and cultivating a culture of experimentation and learning.

What This Role Offers

• Opportunity to pioneer new solutions in ad targeting and optimization, tackling complex challenges with no prior blueprint.
• Ownership over AI and data-driven products from inception through continuous improvement and live operation.
• Ability to translate sophisticated data science and machine learning methods into accessible and impactful tools for advertisers and internal teams.
• Collaborative culture working closely with engineering, data science, commercial, and product teams to build trust and achieve shared goals.

Success Indicators in Early Months

• Gain deep understanding of advertising domain with clear identification of key enhancement opportunities in targeting, creative, and measurement.
• Establish trusted relationships and feedback mechanisms with development and data science colleagues, supported by informed decision-making.
• Apply hands-on SQL expertise in platforms like Snowflake or BigQuery to justify critical product choices.
• Lead at least one data-driven feature from concept to launch, showcasing the value proposition of Global:IQ both internally and externally.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive product ownership or management experience (approximately 8+ years) predominantly on complex, data-intensive platforms.
• Strong enthusiasm for leveraging data intelligence to enhance advertisement efficiency and validate media impact, with a commitment to this specialty area.
• Demonstrable history of managing AI and machine learning-based products throughout their full development lifecycle.
• Proficient in SQL and confident in operating within big data ecosystems like Snowflake and BigQuery.
• Proven leadership in guiding large development teams and collaborating with diverse technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Mental agility for innovation, comfortable navigating ambiguous scenarios, rapid experimentation, and iterative feedback, ideally with exposure to AI-focused or startup-like product environments.