Ad Products Lead, Media Network

About the job

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

At Delta Air Lines, we're redefining how brands connect with customers through premium, high-impact advertising experiences. We're expanding on the foundation of Delta Sync into new advertising opportunities, and we're looking for someone to be the head of our ad products department, who thrives in complex technical environments and has deep experience in optimizing media network technology in an AI-driven world.

The Ad Products Lead will define, launch, and evolve all advertising products, inventory, audience offerings, and measurement capabilities that advertisers can buy across Delta's evolving sell-side landscape, including Owned, Digital Out of Home, and Data. This Ad Product Lead owns the ad product vision and roadmap, leads cross-functional stakeholder alignment and prioritization, translates business goals into actionable product requirements, and leads execution to drive revenue growth and advertiser impact while ensuring a best-in-class customer experience.

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS:

• Product Strategy & Vision: Define the short- and long-term ad product roadmap — including inventory, audience offerings, and measurement capabilities — aligned to revenue, experience, and brand objectives across all of Delta's media network channels.

• Ad Tech Strategy & Enablement: Define business requirements and product priorities for the Media Network’s ad server(s), order management system, and data and measurement platforms; partner with IT & Engineering and technology vendors on the implementation, integration, and ongoing optimization.

• Prioritization & Influence: Lead cross-functional stakeholder alignment and prioritization of ad product investment, balancing business goals, platform priorities, and engineering capacity.

• Productization: Translate business strategy and advertiser needs into scalable, repeatable ad products with clearly defined capabilities, requirements, business rules, and experience guardrails. Lead internal and external stakeholders through product definition and development from concept to market readiness.

• Inventory & Monetization Strategy: Define how Delta’s owned channels and experiences translate into scalable advertising inventory, establishing formats, placements, eligibility, availability, and experience guardrails. Continuously identify opportunities to unlock new monetizable inventory while protecting the customer experience and Delta brand.

• Commercialization & Sales Enablement: Partner with Ad Sales, Ad Sales Marketing, and Finance to translate ad capabilities into clear, market-ready offerings with defined inventory, audiences, measurement, packaging, pricing inputs, and sales guardrails. Equip commercial teams with the product knowledge and tools needed to confidently position solutions with advertisers and agencies.

• Cross-Functional Delivery & Enterprise Integration: Partner across Delta technology, data, privacy, and experience teams to define Media Network requirements and integrate ad products into the broader enterprise ecosystem. Proactively manage dependencies across capabilities such as MDM, CDP, CRM, consent and preference management, clean rooms, brand safety, creative tooling, and workflow platforms to enable successful product delivery.

• AI & Emerging Product Capabilities: Identify where AI and emerging technologies can enhance Delta’s ad products, advertiser experiences, and internal product workflows. Incorporate high-value use cases into the product roadmap and partner with technology teams to bring prioritized capabilities to market.

• Innovation & Differentiation: Drive innovation in the ad product space to differentiate Delta's Media Network; identify emerging media trends and formats to develop differentiated, value-accretive ad experiences.

• Product Performance & Market Feedback: Establish a continuous feedback loop across product performance, sales teams, advertisers, agencies, and market trends to understand product adoption, identify unmet needs and friction points, and continuously evolve the portfolio based on demonstrated market demand and performance.

• Team Leadership: Directly lead the Data Product, Owned Product, and DOOH Product functions, and indirectly lead cross-functional technology partners and engineering teams (internal and external).

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
• Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits
• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience in digital advertising, ad product management, or media product leadership.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

• Ideal candidate possesses 12+ years of experience.
• Experience launching and scaling new monetization products, including inventory and measurement capabilities, in complex environments.
• Expertise managing short- and long-term product roadmaps with significant enterprise stakeholder management.
• Hands-on experience with ad tech ecosystems, including ad servers, order management systems, and measurement/attribution platforms – and experience in how these technologies fit into the broader media network ecosystem.
• Proven ability to translate product and design decisions into revenue generation while ensuring brand and CX alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to set vision and align technology, sales, marketing, and analytics stakeholders.
• Extensive experience building new processes and forging paths where no playbook exists.
• Experience directly managing product owners and indirectly managing internal and external technology (and engineering) partners.
• Experience influencing broader enterprise technology prioritization to drive media network engineering needs forward. Ability to quickly fold into existing enterprise technology processes.
• Experience evaluating AI/LLM capabilities for product roadmaps; able to assess where AI creates real product value, driving margin accretive outcomes.

This role may be based in either New York, NY or Atlanta, GA, with the flexibility to work in a hybrid environment from either location.

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