Director, Curation & Activation Partnerships

This Director role drives revenue growth for Equativ's Maestro programmatic curation and media activation platform across North America by building strategic agency and holding-company partnerships. The role owns the full partnership lifecycle from prospecting and negotiation to activation and expansion, while tracking emerging AI-driven advertising technologies like MCP and AdCP. Success requires 5+ years of programmatic advertising or business development experience, deep knowledge of DSPs/SSPs, and the ability to translate technology into commercial opportunities.

This Director role at Equativ is responsible for growing Maestro, a programmatic curation and media activation platform, across North America by building agency and holding-company partnerships. The role involves developing white-label and co-branded curation opportunities, tracking programmatic trends (DSPs, SSPs, identity, contextual targeting), and exploring AI-powered and agentic media activation. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in programmatic advertising or business development, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to translate technology into revenue growth.

This Director role is responsible for growing Maestro, a programmatic curation and media activation platform, across North America. The role focuses on building strategic partnerships with agency programmatic, investment, trading, data, and curation teams, and driving revenue growth. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of programmatic advertising experience, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to translate emerging technologies like AI-driven media activation into business opportunities.

This senior leadership role defines and leads Equativ's EMEA Brand Partnerships strategy, building direct relationships with major advertisers and their agencies. The Director will engage CMOs and senior marketing leaders, positioning Equativ as a strategic partner across programmatic, CTV, data, curation, and commerce media, while developing coordinated account strategies and commercial partnerships.

This role leads demand-side partnerships for Equativ's Ad Exchange in Japan, managing executive relationships with agencies, DSPs, and brand-direct clients. The Senior Manager will negotiate complex commercial agreements, drive revenue growth through programmatic solutions, and build a pipeline of new partnership opportunities. Requires 8+ years in programmatic advertising business development with deep knowledge of the Japanese DSP ecosystem.

This role leads Equativ's SecOps team, managing day-to-day security operations for a full-cloud company on GCP. The Team Lead will define and enforce the GCP security baseline, own detection and response, lead incident response, and drive vulnerability management. Requires 8+ years in security engineering with 3+ years securing production on public cloud and 2+ years managing a security team, with strong GCP security knowledge.

This Account Executive role drives revenue growth across Canadian agency holding companies, independent agencies, and brand-direct advertisers. The AE will manage strategic account plans, become a subject matter expert on Equativ's programmatic, CTV, video, native, and curation solutions, and collaborate with Customer Success, Product, and Marketing teams to ensure client success.