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

This role manages Equativ's SecOps team and owns day-to-day security operations for a full-cloud company running on GCP. The Team Lead will define the SecOps roadmap, enforce GCP security baselines, lead incident response, and drive vulnerability management while working 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 senior marketing leaders. The role involves defining the commercial motion for brand-direct initiatives, developing strategic partnerships, and acting as the voice of the advertiser within the company to shape product and go-to-market strategies across the EMEA region.