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 at Equativ owns revenue growth for the Maestro programmatic curation and media activation platform across North America. The role focuses on building agency and holding-company partnerships, developing white-label curation offerings, and translating emerging AI-driven advertising technologies into business opportunities. Success requires 5+ years of programmatic advertising experience, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to manage a sales pipeline against revenue targets.

This role manages day-to-day relationships for a portfolio of partners in the digital advertising ecosystem, focusing on onboarding, troubleshooting, and identifying growth opportunities. The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of experience in AdTech or customer success, with a growth mindset and strong communication skills.

This role leads demand-side partnerships for Equativ's ad exchange in Japan, focusing on agency holding companies, brand-direct clients, and DSPs. The Senior Manager will own a portfolio of strategic relationships, negotiate commercial agreements, drive revenue growth through programmatic solutions, and collaborate with sales leadership to accelerate incremental net revenue. Requires 8+ years of experience in programmatic advertising partnerships and deep knowledge of the Japanese DSP ecosystem.

This role leads Equativ's SecOps team, managing day-to-day security operations for a full-cloud (GCP) ad tech platform. The Team Lead will define and enforce GCP security baselines, own detection and response, vulnerability management, and incident response, while also building the team and delivering the SecOps roadmap toward ISO 27001 certification. Requires 8+ years in security engineering with 3+ years securing production on public cloud and 2+ years managing a security team.

This Senior Director role leads Equativ's EMEA Brand Partnerships strategy, building direct relationships with major advertisers and their CMOs, Media Directors, and Programmatic leaders. The role involves defining the brand partnerships strategy, developing strategic commercial partnerships, and acting as the voice of the advertiser within Equativ to shape product and go-to-market strategies. Requires 10+ years of experience in advertising technology or digital media with a strong network of senior brand-side relationships across EMEA.