Director, Ad Experiences

Business Insider is seeking a Director, Ad Experiences to serve as the technical & creative lead for our Ad Innovation team. In this role, you will own the technical vision, design direction, and execution of high-impact, innovative ad products across Business Insider's entire media ecosystem. Sales Enablement Partner: Support the commercial team by ensuring the design studio is equipped to deliver compelling, executable pre-sale concepts that help win business.P&T Technical Partner: Act as the primary partner for ad product development, designing ad product prototypes and concepts.AdOps Operations Lead: Lead communication with the AdOps team to coordinate implementation requirements, tracking, and launch readiness for new ad products.Strategic Alignment: Receive and execute against the commercial vision defined by the team's Strategic Lead, providing implementation plans, feasibility assessments, and design updates to ensure the overarching strategy is brought to market successfully. Experience in advertising solutions, ad product innovation, creative strategy, product management, media, or a similar role.Experience managing or guiding creative, design, production, or cross-functional execution teams.Strong understanding of digital advertising products, creative formats, ad technology, campaign execution, and premium media experiences.Experience developing, launching, or optimizing new advertising products, templates, sponsorship models, or monetizable digital experiences.Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, UX/Design, AdOps, Sales, Marketing, and vendor teams to bring products from concept to market.Experience supporting Sales teams through product education, pitch development, strategic mocks, client-facing materials, and product rollout.Experience managing external vendors or technology partners, including evaluation, implementation, QA, troubleshooting, and roadmap alignment.Strong creative judgment and ability to translate advertiser objectives into compelling, brand-safe, technically feasible ad experiences.Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment among multiple stakeholders.Ability to lead and operate in ambiguous environments and execute with urgency.Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams, launches, stakeholders, and deadlines at once.A proactive, curious, solutions-oriented approach to identifying new revenue opportunities and improving existing products.Experience with social advertising, creator-led sponsorships, distributed content, short-form video, platform-native ad products, or new social monetization opportunities is a strong plus.Experience with AI-powered advertising products, conversational ad experiences, creative automation, newsletter monetization, video/audio sponsorships, CTV/FAST, or high-impact custom display formats is a plus. Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don't have 100% of the experience we're looking for?