Director of ProductSomerville, Massachusetts, United States

Director of Product

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed. Today, Topsort has 6 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that's had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we've gained customers in retail, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.

Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact, being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning? Let's do the unimaginable - let's make ads clean and cool again, with AI and modern technology.

Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It's a sports team that's hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.

We're looking for a strategic, experienced, and hands-on Director of Product to lead product development across multiple core areas of Topsort's offering, from foundational APIs and auction infrastructure to optimization tools and customer-facing interfaces.

As a senior leader in the product organization, you'll define and drive product strategy at a company-wide level. You'll work cross-functionally with engineering, sales, customer success, and marketing to ensure we're solving the right problems, delivering scalable solutions, and creating products that drive meaningful value for our customers.

This is a high-impact, collaborative role in a fast-paced environment, ideal for someone who thrives in technical settings, brings clarity to complex challenges, and wants to shape the future of retail media infrastructure.

You will :

• Embrace the "sports team" mentality of Topsortcollaborate across product, engineering, sales, and customer success teams globally to drive alignment, unblock execution, and support scalable, sustainable growth.
• Lead the strategy, vision, and roadmap across multiple product areas, ensuring Topsort's solutions are technically robust, customer-centric, and aligned with business priorities.
• Develop deep domain expertise in retail media and ad techunderstanding the nuances of auctions, APIs, data flows, and platform extensibility to inform product direction.
• Drive creative, high-leverage solutions to complex product challengesbalancing technical constraints, customer needs, and market opportunities.
• Lead discovery efforts across customers and internal teams to uncover pain points, validate hypotheses, and define product strategy based on insight and data.
• Partner closely with engineering to define requirements, prioritize backlogs, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across the product development lifecycle.
• Shape product rollout and adoption strategy in collaboration with marketing, sales, and customer successensuring successful launches and strong customer impact.
• Establish metrics to evaluate product success, iterate based on outcomes, and guide long-term investment decisions.
• Mentor and guide other product managers, and contribute to building a high-performing, fast-moving product organization.

What (we think) you need to be successful - we're open to not checking all the boxes and be proven wrong by outlier candidates as well!

Why it's awesome to work at Topsort :

Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!