About Affinity
Affinity is pioneering new frontiers in AdTech: developing solutions that push past today’s limits and open up new opportunities. We are a global AdTech company helping publishers discover better ways to monetize and enabling advertisers to reach the right audiences through new touchpoints. Operating across 10+ markets in Asia, the US, and Europe with a team of over 575 experts, we are building privacy-first ad infrastructure that opens up opportunities beyond the walled gardens.
Role: Director, Product
Work Location: Mumbai (Malad)
Roles & Responsibility:
- Own end-to-end product execution including user stories, feature definition, delivery planning, task tracking, release readiness, and quality assurance.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Business, Customer Success and Product stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and continuously increase product value through enhancements and new capabilities.
- Translate user and market needs into product requirements by gathering inputs, defining scope, creating wireframes/prototypes, and driving timely launches in close collaboration with engineering.
- Act as the internal product owner across all releases—supporting teams from discovery and development through launch, enablement, and post-sales adoption.
- Use data to drive decisions by analysing product and customer performance, generating insights, and supporting customer-facing teams with reports, recommendations, and narratives that guide action.
- Lead product discovery and validation processes including market research, feasibility analysis, solution evaluation, and coordination of development for iterative improvements.
- Drive competitive and ecosystem intelligence by monitoring customer needs, industry trends, and partnership opportunities—translating insights into better features, improved performance, and stronger product positioning.
- Bring strong Affiliate Marketing domain expertise, including tracking platforms, click and conversion measurement, reporting methodologies, network API integrations, and evolving industry standards.
- Demonstrate solid technical understanding of tracking and data flows, including click-to-conversion attribution workflows, event/log pipelines, reconciliation, and data management practices for dashboards and reporting.
- Combine business acumen, technical depth, and strategic vision to identify opportunities, define product direction, and lead innovation in a fast-moving AdTech environment.
- Collaborate closely with Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and Leadership to drive strategic initiatives, improve customer outcomes, and accelerate adoption and revenue impact.
- Operate with ecosystem sensitivity—understanding the needs and incentives of multiple AdTech stakeholders (publishers, advertisers/brands, networks, and internal teams) and balancing them in product decisions.
Required Skills:
- Independently with strong ownership, follow-through, and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Also, a Master’s degree in MBA from a Tier-1 institute is preferred
- 8+ years of Product management experience delivering web and mobile products and services
- Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of Product Managers/Product Analysts
- Strong background building and scaling B2B / Enterprise SaaS digital products
- Prior experience working on online advertising, AdTech, or performance marketing products and services is strongly preferred
- Hands-on familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira, including backlog ownership, sprint planning, and delivery governance.
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, browser debugging concepts, databases, and related web technologies. (Hands-on coding is not required, but technical fluency is expected.)
- Experience conducting or driving usability testing for web-based and mobile applications; ability to translate insights into actionable product improvements.
- Highly self-driven, organized, and capable of working