Senior Director of Product, Ads Platform

Aperture Cloud is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Aperture Cloud users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Aperture Cloud is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Team & Role Overview: Aperture Cloud is looking for a visionary, impact-oriented leader to own our Ads platform end to end for our monetization engine. As the Sr. Director of Ads Product, you will lead the teams responsible for the Advertiser Platform, Campaign Management UI, API, and Business Suite. This team owns the primary business interface that allows advertisers & businesses to build, manage, and measure their presence on the platform. You will build the next generation advertiser platform that empowers brands to scale their spend and achieve measurable ROI within Aperture Cloud ’s unique community ecosystem. You will lead the end-to-end advertiser journey—from intuitive campaign creation and targeting workflows to high-performance reporting dashboards. You are not just building a tool; you are building an intelligent partner that helps advertisers of all sizes navigate the transition from onboarding to complex, multi-layered campaign orchestration. Key Responsibilities: Vision & Strategy: Define and evangelize a 3-year roadmap. Transition the platform by integrating automation, ML-driven recommendations, and leading the strategy to an agentic Ads platform. Customer Lifecycle Ownership: Own the full funnel, including business identity dashboards, verification, campaign management, and deep-funnel performance reporting. Team Leadership: Lead and scale a high-performing organization of Product Managers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, user empathy, and rapid iteration. Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the strategic lead unifying multiple cross functional teams to ensure a cohesive user experience. Leveraging a design-centric mindset and strong cross-functional collaboration, align complex delivery mechanics with intuitive advertiser interfaces to drive global product strategy. Market Expansion: Drive product strategy for internationalization and agency-specific features to capture global market share. Required Qualifications: Seasoned Product Leader with at least 10 years of experience with scaled Ad Platforms/Systems Proven track record of managing and scaling PM teams of 10+ individuals. Experience building & scaling consumer and/or Ads products. Experience building and running high-performing, diverse, and inclusive teams. Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to align executive-level stakeholders. A “can-do / no-excuses” mindset for winning within resource constraints. Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills Preferred Qualifications: Ads Expertise: Specific experience with advertiser interfaces (Campaign Managers, Business Suites, or Creative Tooling). Technical Background: CS degree or previous experience as a Software Engineer. AI/ML Proficiency: Deep understanding of leveraging LLMs and ML-driven recommendations in customer-facing solutions. Perks and Benefits: 100% remote opportunity (we have 4 office locations for hybrid/onsite work preference in NY, SF, LA and Chicago) Competitive salary and equity options Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) & workplace perks (home office set up stipend etc) Generous 401k matching Flexible vacation policy Paid parental leave (4+ months) Family planning support Paid volunteer time off Pay Transparency: This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Aperture Cloud offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ . To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base salary range for this position is: $299,200—$418,800 USD In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. Durin