Program Director, Media Innovation, Data & Emerging Platforms

USA (Remote)

$118K/yr – $246K/yrSenior Level14+ years expOther

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the strategy and execution of AI-enabled media innovation across channels, building roadmaps, partnerships, and data infrastructure to drive measurable performance.

  • Own innovation roadmaps and learning agendas across AI media, addressable audiences, and emerging channels.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, and marketing tech to advance infrastructure for activation and measurement.
  • Collaborate with agencies and platforms to accelerate innovation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive innovation across media platforms, AI-enabled marketing, creator ecosystems, streaming, gaming, social platforms, and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to improve performance and competitive advantage.
  • Develop scalable innovation roadmaps, testing frameworks, and learning agendas across AI media, addressable audiences, creators, gaming, CTV, and emerging channels, connecting experimentation to measurable business outcomes.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, analytics, and marketing technology teams to advance the infrastructure supporting media activation, measurement, and optimization.
  • Improve the flow and quality of marketing data across platforms through APIs, first-party data integrations, server-side tracking, audience creation, clean rooms, tagging, conversion events, and identity resolution.
  • Identify opportunities to improve signal quality, reduce data loss, and enhance platform connectivity to maximize AI-powered optimization and measurement accuracy.
  • Shape Indeed’s long-term strategy for addressable audiences, identity, audience infrastructure, and marketing data architecture while evaluating AI capabilities, AI-native media opportunities, and agentic experiences.
  • Serve as a senior strategic partner to agencies, platforms, technology vendors, and measurement partners including, WPP, Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, iSpot, Claritas, and emerging technology partner, to accelerate innovation and evolving media capabilities.

Requirements

  • Requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience; or a minimum of 12 years with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience.
  • Deep understanding of marketing data architecture, including first-party data ecosystems, APIs, server-side tracking, clean rooms, audience onboarding, identity resolution, tagging, event architecture, and marketing technology integrations.
  • Experience partnering with engineering, data science, analytics, and marketing technology teams to improve marketing infrastructure and platform connectivity.
  • Advanced understanding of how marketing signals influence AI-driven optimization, attribution, audience activation, and measurement across major advertising platforms.
  • Experience improving data quality, signal integrity, and technical integrations that enable better marketing performance.
  • Experience building innovation roadmaps, evaluating emerging technologies, and turning experimentation into measurable business outcomes. Deep interest in AI, marketing technology, creators, and emerging platforms.
  • Able to influence across complex global organizations, simplify technical concepts for senior audiences, and operate effectively in fast-changing, ambiguous environments.
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Founded in 2004
Austin, Texas, USA
19K employees (1,355 in marketing)
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69% CEO approval

Salaries

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$118K/yr – $246K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
885 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
1.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$5M
Last Raise
$5M
Series A, 21 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2005
    Series A • $5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
388.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$11.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42%
Direct
52.7%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~19.4K

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