SVP, Product Experience

About the role

Horizon Media is looking for a seasoned product executive to lead its Product Experience pillar, which sits at the intersection of advertisers, publishers, traders, planners and operators. The role owns the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap and team for the experiences that determine how indispensable the platform feels to daily users. It covers two sub-pillars: Product Growth (adoption, activation, expansion) and Product Innovation (discovery, prototyping, platform breakthroughs).

Key responsibilities

• Define and deliver the strategy, vision and roadmap for the Product Experience pillar, owning adoption, retention, activation and customer delight.
• Run Product Growth and Product Innovation in parallel, including integrating commerce capabilities.
• Raise the standard for design-led product work in ad tech, with opinionated UX and shipped outcomes that move advertiser yield, publisher revenue and operator efficiency.
• Manage, mentor and develop VPs, Directors and senior PMs, hire to fill gaps and build a bench.
• Partner with Design and Research so user insight is a continuous input, and run discovery and design partnerships with enterprise advertisers, publishers and agencies.
• Act as the Product Experience counterpart to Data Product and Product Operations, driving shared roadmap, metrics and accountability.
• Define success metrics tied to commercial outcomes (adoption, retention, expansion, NPS, time-to-value) and represent the product organization externally.
• Stay ahead of industry shifts such as signal loss, retail media, CTV, cleanroom architectures and AI-native workflows.

Required profile

• 15+ years of product leadership, including 5+ years at VP/SVP level managing multi-team, multi-product organizations.
• Deep ad tech background, with experience building DSPs, SSPs, ad exchanges, identity/data platforms, measurement systems or adjacent enterprise advertising platforms.
• Proven track record of building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS or enterprise platforms.
• Proven success leading senior product leaders and developing talent.
• C-suite, board and enterprise-client communication, and strong technical fluency on architecture, identity, privacy and data flow.
• Experience through organizational change, integration or rapid scale, and working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA and CTV/identity regulation.

What we offer

• Salary range of $250,000 to $350,000, with actual base pay depending on experience and qualifications.
• Discretionary bonus and a total rewards package including health, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, company-paid holidays and unlimited PTO.
• Mental health and wellness resources, pet insurance, childcare resources, fertility assistance and fitness reimbursement.
• Hybrid work arrangement.