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The Role
As Director of Product, Cloud, you will lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for a bespoke ad tech-focused cloud infrastructure, partnering with engineering and external innovators to optimize advertising efficiency and privacy.
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About Index Exchange:
Index Exchange is a globally trusted independent supply-side platform, powering intelligent decisioning that maximizes value for media owners. As a neutral, conflict-free exchange, we help media owners connect more effectively with the world’s leading brands, enabling marketers to achieve stronger performance while advancing efficiency, transparency, and quality across the programmatic ecosystem.
With more than 20 years of industry leadership, we continue to accelerate the ad technology evolution by applying intelligence closer to the impression and reducing waste across the supply chain. Through radically transparent practices and exceptional standards, we deliver long-term value for media owners, marketers, and partners worldwide.
What’s it like to work at Index?
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.
Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution?
As an independent and transparent leader in ad tech, Index Exchange is always pushing the boundaries of how advertising is bought and sold. We’re now building a bespoke, ad tech-focused cloud infrastructure—designed from the ground up to optimize advertising efficiency, privacy, and scale. On top of this foundation, we’re creating a development platform layer that allows innovative start-ups, data partners, and other companies to build applications and services that enhance programmatic transactions and outcomes.
We’re looking for a Director of Product, Cloud to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for this critical growing product line. This is a rare opportunity to architect something unlike any public cloud—a purpose-built ad tech platform engineered to power privacy-first advertising, AI-based optimization, and future-ready transaction models.
In this role, you’ll design the products and services that support a new offering in the market, with early proven success. You’ll partner with engineering and external innovators to build a cost-effective, high-performance, and extensible platform. If you’re a technical product leader with deep expertise cloud architecture and scalable infrastructure, and an interest in the advertising ecosystem, this is your chance to redefine the infrastructure layer of programmatic advertising. This role starts as an individual contributor with the opportunity to build and lead a team as the product line scales.
What we’re looking for:
- Product Development Mentality: You’re looking to make change through shipping excellent software that makes a big impact to your product. You love product development, including the basics—customer research, writing acceptance criteria, triaging bugs—and you find that work energizing rather than beneath you.
- Cloud Infrastructure Experience: You have hands-on product experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Akamai/Linode, or similar) and a working understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, edge computing, and distributed systems. Ideally you've built products on or for these platforms, not just deployed to them. Ad tech experience is a plus, but deep cloud infrastructure knowledge is the priority.
- Proactivity: You identify what needs to happen and move on it. You can rally engineers, work across teams, support delivery, and drive adoption in market. Fundamentally, you see an opportunity or an issue, and you act on it.
- Technical Depth: You engage deeply on architecture decisions and understand the trade-offs of different infrastructure approaches. You’re comfortable reading technical docs, reviewing system designs, and working at Internet scale where small decisions have outsized downstream effects. Our engineering team is strong and opinionated; you’ll be a better product leader here if you can partner closely with them and work together.
- Adaptability: You’ll work directly with senior leadership, including our CEO, on product direction. That means eing confident enough to advocate for your perspective and pragmatic enough to adapt when the business calls for a different approach.
- Customer Orientation: Your customers here are the partners building on our containerized platform—DSPs, data vendors, curation platforms, and other buy-side participants running code in our infrastructure. You’ll need to understand their technical needs deeply and translate them into product priorities
Here’s what you’ll be doing:
- Delivering on the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Index’s cloud and containerization platform, and taking it from early-stage definition through to a scaled business line
- Driving the product development for our containerized compute environment, enabling partners to run their decisioning logic (bidding algorithms, curation, data activation) directly within Index’s infrastructure at the edge
- Working hands-on with Engineering to define technical requirements, make architecture trade-offs, and ship iteratively
- Engaging directly with platform partners (DSPs, data providers, agencies, curation platforms, and more) to understand their technical requirements and shape the product accordingly
- Contributing to Index’s participation in the IAB Tech Lab’s Agentic RTB Framework (ARTF), helping define industry standards for containerized ad decisioning
- Making tough prioritization calls with imperfect data. This includes saying “no” to good ideas that won’t move the needle, and doubling down on the ones that will
- Collaborating across functions, including but not limited to Engineering, TechOps, Product Marketing, and Commercial teams, to ensure successful product delivery and go-to-market
- Working closely with senior leadership, including C-level partners, to align product direction with company strategy, adapting your approach as business priorities evolve
- Defining success metrics, instrumentation, and feedback loops so you can measure what’s working and iterate quickly
Here's what you need:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent on cloud infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products
- Track record of taking a product from early stage through to scale
- Experience in a high-autonomy environment—whether at a startup, a growth-stage company, or in a role at a larger org where you operated with significant independence and owned outcomes end-to-end
- Preferably based in or willing to relocate to Toronto or New York; flexibility for occasional travel
Why you’ll love working here:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
- Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
- Competitive retirement matching plans
- Equity packages
- Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
- Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
- Employee assistance program
- Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
- One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
- Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
- Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
- A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here
Equal employment opportunity
At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.
Accessibility for applicants with disabilities
Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.
If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.
Index everywhere, Index anywhere
Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.
AI Disclaimer: Automated tools including artificial intelligence may be used to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this role. All hiring decisions involve human review.
Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of product management experience
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products
- Track record of taking a product from early stage through to scale
- High-autonomy environment experience
Index Exchange Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Index Exchange and has not been reviewed or approved by Index Exchange.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is described as fully paid for employees and often for dependents in the U.S., reducing out-of-pocket costs. While specifics vary by region, public materials consistently emphasize low-premium coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is positioned as generous and inclusive, with birthing parents able to take extended fully paid leave and structured return‑to‑work support. Coverage also extends to non‑birthing and adoptive parents, with fertility benefits highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off combines substantial PTO with additional health days and personal obligation days, expanding rest and recovery options. Volunteer time off and the ability to work from another location for part of the year further broaden flexibility around time away.
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The Company
What We Do
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. Our global teams are dedicated to driving industry standards and building technology that delivers scale, efficiency, and long-term value for our customers and partners. In our workplace, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment of openness where everyone feels connected and supported - a place where you can be your best inside or outside of work.
Why Work With Us
When you join Index Exchange, you’ll be working at an engineering-first company. Our foundation is our technology platform and all of the Indexers who come together to improve, extend, and reinvent it. We invest heavily in building an organization that’s committed to DEI&B, our core values, and our vision of total market efficiency.
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