🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead advertising product strategy and delivery across The Economist's digital ecosystem. You'll balance commercial value with user experience and editorial integrity in a subscription-first environment. This role combines technical product ownership with a dotted line to the Global Head of Advertising.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Own product vision and roadmap for advertising across digital products.
• Manage and prioritize advertising product backlog, leading a product squad.
• Define how advertising fits within a subscription-led, editorial-first ecosystem.
• Lead technical ownership of the advertising stack across web, app, newsletters, and Espresso.
• Partner with Global Head of Advertising to translate commercial strategy into product capabilities.

📋 Requirements

• Senior product leader with experience owning complex, platform-level products.
• Deep understanding of digital advertising systems, including first-party data-driven models.
• Product-first mindset with strong judgment on balancing monetization and user experience.
• Technically confident to engage deeply with engineers on architecture and data flows.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with ad servers, programmatic platforms, and sponsorship products.
• Strong understanding of first-party data strategies in premium or subscription-led environments.
• Familiarity with privacy, consent, identity, and regulatory requirements in digital advertising.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
• 🏥 Health insurance
• 💰 Bonus target
• 👶 Parental leave
• 📚 Learning and development