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LocaliQ is seeking a Vice President of Product, Platform to own the vision, strategy, and execution of the internal platform systems that power our digital advertising, data, and marketing products. This role is accountable for building scalable, reliable, and extensible platform capabilities that enable product innovation, operational efficiency, and long-term growth across the organization.

This leader owns the platform roadmap—the foundational systems, data, workflows, and tooling that product portfolio teams and client success teams depend on to plan, build, and operate effectively. Success in this role requires strong technical product leadership, deep partnership with Engineering, and a pragmatic approach to applying AI and automation to real business and data problems.

The ideal candidate has experience building internal platforms in complex, data-intensive environments, brings technical credibility, and understands how to drive leverage across a multi-product organization—ideally within digital advertising or adjacent ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Product Ownership

• Own the end-to-end platform product vision and roadmap for LocaliQ’s internal systems
• Build shared capabilities that support multiple product lines and operational teams
• Ensure platform decisions balance near-term enablement with long-term scalability
• Reduce fragmentation, duplication, and accumulated technical debt across the organization

AI, Data, and Automation Enablement

• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities to apply AI and intelligent automation to internal platforms
• Partner with Engineering to improve:
• Data quality, normalization, and enrichment
• Workflow automation and operational efficiency
• System intelligence and decision support
• Ensure AI-driven solutions are production-ready, measurable, and tied to clear business outcomes

Technical Product Leadership

• Translate complex technical systems and architectural concepts into clear product strategy and priorities
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership on sequencing, tradeoffs, and delivery
• Establish strong product discipline around requirements, prioritization, and execution
• Operate comfortably across infrastructure, data platforms, APIs, and internal tooling

Product Portfolio & Client Success Enablement

• Partner closely with Engineering and product portfolio leaders to translate platform capabilities into practical, high-impact solutions that enable the broader product organization and client success teams
• Treat product portfolio leaders as key stakeholders and customers of the platform
• Build platform capabilities that improve speed, reliability, and consistency for client-facing teams

Digital Advertising Context

• Ensure internal platforms effectively support digital advertising use cases including campaign execution, reporting, optimization, and partner integrations
• Understand the constraints and realities of ad-tech ecosystems, including data dependencies, APIs, attribution, and privacy considerations

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and grow a team of senior platform-focused product managers
• Set a high bar for technical rigor, execution quality, and stakeholder communication
• Coach PMs to operate effectively in complex, dependency-heavy environments

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• 12+ years of product management experience, including senior leadership roles
• Proven ownership of internal platforms, infrastructure products, or highly technical systems
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud platforms
• Experience applying AI, ML, or advanced automation to solve data or operational problems
• Demonstrated ability to partner deeply with Engineering leadership

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in digital advertising, ad tech, martech, or media platforms
• Background supporting large-scale internal data and workflow systems
• Prior hands-on technical experience (engineering, data, or technical PM)
• Experience building platforms that serve multiple downstream product teams

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to LocaliQ’s ability to:

• Scale and modernize internal platform systems
• Unlock AI-driven efficiency across product and client operations
• Improve data quality, reliability, and usability
• Enable faster, more predictable product delivery
• Support the continued evolution of LocaliQ’s digital advertising platform

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The annualized base salary for this role will range between $250,000 and $275,000.  Base compensation is reflective of many factors, including, but not limited to, the market in which one lives/works, individual education level, skills, certifications and experience. Note: variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.