Code and Theory

Technology

Director,Product

$170–200k New York, New York, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Director, Product at Code and Theory. Skills: Product Management, AI orchestration, Adtech, LLM. Lead roadmap for AI functionality. Lead roadmap for agentic functionality”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Significant product management experience, Track record of leadership, LLM-based products experience, AI prototyping tools experience, AI-native professional skills, Deep domain expertise in media and adtech, Technical fluency in AI tooling and architecture, Comfort with ambiguity, Fast iteration experience, Experimentation-heavy environments experience, Excellent written communication skills, Excellent verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

Familiarity with the media agency world

What You'll Do.

Lead roadmap for AI functionality

Lead roadmap for agentic functionality

Identify opportunities for generative workflows

Identify opportunities for reasoning-based workflows

Translate problem spaces into feature sets

Translate problem spaces into prototypes

Translate problem spaces into launch plans

Collaborate with Data Science

Collaborate with Engineering

Deliver iterative experiments

Rapidly prototype LLM-based agents

Rapidly prototype copilots

Rapidly prototype data-interactive interfaces

Define success metrics

Partner with AI architecture teams

Partner with FDE teams

Ensure scalable deployments

Ensure secure deployments

Act as connective hub

Present prototypes to leadership

Present findings to leadership

Present roadmaps to leadership

Support internal rollouts

Support pilot launches

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional stakeholders; Technical stakeholders; Media stakeholders; Creative stakeholders

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

The Machine is the agentic operating system for marketing, built by Code & Theory. It plugs into the tools marketing teams use and turns disconnected workflows into a single intelligent system, connecting brand strategy, creative production, and media performance. The Machine helps power agencies across Stagwell's network and world-leading brands. We're looking for a Director of Product Management, Adtech who will lead the development of AI-driven and agentic experiences within The Machine's media and adtech portfolio, translating complex data capabilities into intuitive, high-impact tools for media, strategy, and marketing teams. This role sits at the convergence of AI orchestration, adtech, product design, and workflow innovation, turning conceptual use cases into scalable, production-ready systems. You will own high-leverage experiments, shape how users interact with generative and reasoning models across the media lifecycle — planning, optimization, trafficking, measurement, and reporting — and help define The Machine's next generation of features for the vertical. The ideal candidate combines fluency in AI systems and the adtech ecosystem, a sharp product sense, and comfort bridging strategy and engineering. Our engineers are AI native and engage in and advance the state of the art in the practice of software development flow with AI. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the roadmap for AI and agentic functionality across The Machine's media and adtech ecosystem Identify opportunities for generative and reasoning-based workflows that drive measurable efficiency or performance gains across media planning, optimization, and measurement Translate broad problem spaces into concrete feature sets, prototypes, and launch plans Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and UX to prioritize features and deliver fast, iterative experiments Rapidly prototype LLM-based agents, copilots, and data-interactive interfaces using sandbox environments and internal frameworks Define success metr

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