About the Role
Index Exchange is seeking a Partnership Manager to join our DSP Partnerships team. This role owns a defined portfolio of DSP relationships, serving as the commercial and technical bridge between Index supply and DSP demand activation, while working cross-functionally across a variety of internal teams. The Partnership Manager ensures Index exceeds partner expectations by providing excellent service. This role requires independence, responsibility, enthusiasm, proactivity, and self-motivation. You will leverage your knowledge of Index's offerings to position complex media trading solutions as simple and accessible. As a partner advocate, you will track, resolve, and escalate issues, communicating updates and managing expectations internally and externally. This role offers an opportunity to make an immediate impact within a growing team and company.
Responsibilities
- Own and grow a defined portfolio of DSP partnerships, managing each account throughout the entire lifecycle, including onboarding, optimizations, and account planning.
- Understand how each DSP scores and bids on Index inventory, identify where Index is not being read correctly by a partner's algorithm, and drive resolution jointly with Technical Ops.
- Know how each DSP structures its market (open auction, curated deals, always-on deals, or programmatic guaranteed) and close the gaps between how they buy and how Index supply is packaged.
- Drive outcomes across your book of business by monitoring and analyzing key performance trends, identifying and unlocking new opportunities based on these insights.
- Build a joint growth agenda for each partner and run QBRs that produce decisions, commitments, and roadmap intelligence.
- Perform operational tasks such as daily performance monitoring, custom report creation, and troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with your manager to drive Index adoption and upsells by deeply understanding partner needs and product knowledge.
- Serve as the day-to-day contact for your accounts.
- Gather DSP roadmap intelligence, including format changes, ID strategy, and AI/bidding developments, and route it into Index's product planning cycle.
- Utilize Salesforce, Trello, and other internal systems to ensure accurate and up-to-date account information.
- Track, resolve, and/or escalate partner issues while effectively communicating updates and managing expectations internally and externally.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of the advertising technology ecosystem.
- Act as a dependable resource, addressing questions, issues, and requests.
- Work cross-functionally with other Index Exchange Services and Product teams to execute operational strategies and document new processes.
- Exhibit creativity and flexibility to service relationships effectively.
- Adapt to changing circumstances in a timely manner.
Skills
- Proficiency in systems such as Excel, PowerPoint, Looker, Trello, Confluence, and SalesForce.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail and polish.
- Strong work ethic and creative mindset.
- Goal-oriented approach to your book of business, constantly prioritizing within your accounts to add value.
- Proficiency in data-driven decision-making and a focus on process refinement and efficiency.
- Expertise in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to quickly learn new platforms such as SalesForce, Looker, Trello, and Confluence.
Location
- Toronto
- New York
- Montreal
- Kitchener
- London
- San Francisco
- Global cities
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience in an account management capacity, preferably within the advertising technology sector.
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university, preferably in business, marketing, communications, or a technology-related field.
Salary/Compensations
- USD $85,000-$110,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
- Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
- Competitive retirement matching plans
- Equity packages
- Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
- Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
- Employee assistance program
- Mental health first aid program
- One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
- Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
- Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
About the Company
- Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen.
- We connect leading experience makers with the world’s largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers.
- We are a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution.
- We are committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large through radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency.
- Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work, built on core values of trust and transparency.
- We pride ourselves on our independence and openness in technology and teams.
- Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates unique differences to drive Index forward.
- We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace.
- We are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.
Equal Opportunity
- At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunities.
- We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
- Diversity is the human experience.
- For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.
- Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.
- If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you.
- Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.
