Director of Product, Inventory Channels

About Index Exchange

Index Exchange is a global advertising supply‑side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen. As a trusted partner and ally, we connect leading experience makers with the world’s largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers.

We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we’re committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large.

Index is an exciting and fast‑paced place to work. You'll be able to feed your ambition, lean into trust and transparency, and feel genuine support from your colleagues. We’re built on our core values and live them each day. They’re not just buzzwords.

We pride ourselves on our independence and openness, not only in our technology, but in our teams, too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, and we’re looking for talented professionals to help take us to the next level.

Index Exchange is looking for an ambitious Director of Product to lead our Inventory Channels team. This role is responsible for maximizing how Index connects with publishers via Prebid.js (PBJS), server‑to‑server (S2S), and SDK integrations for display and online video (OLV) auctions.

Your primary focus will be mobile app monetization—driving Index’s SDK strategy, deepening our presence in the in‑app ecosystem, and ensuring Index is a top‑performing partner within mobile mediation platforms and SDK integrations. Your secondary focus will be desktop and display header bidding, with a strong emphasis on Prebid engagement and advancing Index’s client‑side and server‑side integration capabilities.

• Mobile Monetization Expertise
  • You have deep experience in mobile app monetization, including in‑app, mobile web, and mobile video. You understand the mobile SDK ecosystem—including mediation platforms like App Lovin MAX, iron Source/Unity Level Play, and Pub Matic Open Wrap SDK—and can articulate how Index can maximize its value as an integrated partner. You know how mediation layers, bidding SDKs, and waterfall setups work, and you have a point of view on where the market is headed.
• Header Bidding & Prebid Fluency
  • You bring hands‑on experience with client‑side and server‑side header bidding, particularly Prebid.js and Prebid Server. You understand wrapper configurations, adapter development, auction dynamics, and the trade‑offs between client‑side and S2S implementations. You can guide both product and engineering decisions around these integrations and represent Index in the Prebid community.
• Ad Serving Knowledge
  • You have strong working knowledge of ad servers—particularly Google Ad Manager—and understand how they interact with SSPs, header bidding wrappers, and direct‑sold campaigns. You know how line item setup, priority, and pricing rules affect auction outcomes and publisher yield.
• Strategic, Analytical, and Customer‑Centric Thinker
  • You excel at aligning product strategy with business outcomes. In a backlog full of ideas and competing priorities, you identify what truly matters. You balance short‑term value and long‑term vision, weighing revenue drivers, serviceability, and engineering investments with confidence and clarity. You’re comfortable writing SQL to dig into large datasets, and you use data to convince others you’re…