At illumin, we are transforming the advertising landscape. Our platform offers an integrated space for journey planning, execution, and reporting. It empowers marketers to connect with their audiences in powerful ways through real-time data and easy-to-use visual tools.

By seamlessly combining media planning and buying in an intuitive interface, marketers can take complete control of their campaigns, meeting customers wherever they are in the buying journey and maximizing the impact of their ad spend through personalized insights for smarter decision-making. We are at a pivotal moment, evolving into a product-led company with a team of over 100 skilled professionals and new leadership guiding our path forward. By harnessing the power of data, advancing our AI capabilities, and deeply investing in our people, we are preparing for a future that will redefine what’s possible in journey advertising.

Joining us now is a chance to be part of our transformation. Who we need Reporting to the COO, we are hiring a Director of Product to lead our Product Management and Product Design teams and help shape the future direction of the illumin platform. As our new Director, Product, you will build on a solid operational foundation while bringing the industry insight, strategic thinking, and market perspective needed to guide our product vision in a rapidly evolving advertising technology landscape.

This is a hybrid opportunity, working Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on-site in our downtown Toronto office. You will join at a time when the foundation is in place and many of the most important product decisions still lie ahead, with the opportunity to help shape how the platform evolves and creates value for marketers. You will influence how the platform evolves, identify new opportunities for growth, and help define what success looks like in the next chapter of our business.

From strategic partnerships and platform investments to market positioning and growth opportunities, your perspective will help shape the future of the business as well as the product. You will develop and evolve the product vision, identifying market opportunities, emerging technologies, customer needs, and industry trends that influence product strategy and roadmap priorities. You will help answer not only what we build next,



but why.

You will coach and support a team of Product Managers and Product Designers, fostering a culture of accountability, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will strengthen product practices, support professional growth, and ensure teams remain focused on delivering meaningful customer outcomes. You will oversee product planning, prioritization, and investment decisions, balancing customer needs, business objectives, technical considerations, and market opportunities.

Working closely with Engineering and Design, you will ensure product initiatives deliver measurable value for customers and the business. You will build relationships with customers, partners, and industry leaders to maintain a deep understanding of the evolving advertising technology landscape. You will represent illumin at industry events, gather market insights, and use those learnings to inform product decisions and long-term strategy.

You will evaluate and develop strategic partnerships across data, identity, measurement, AI, media, and technology ecosystems. You will identify opportunities to extend platform capabilities through integrations, APIs, and partnerships that strengthen our market position and create customer value. You will work closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations, and executive leadership to align product investments with business goals, support strategic customer opportunities, and ensure the voice of the customer is reflected in product decisions.

You have experience leading Product Managers and cross-functional product teams within a B2B SaaS or technology environment. You know how to balance long-term strategy with execution, building strong teams, establishing clear priorities, and ensuring product investments deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.



You understand the advertising technology ecosystem and the workflows that power digital advertising.

Whether your experience comes from DSPs, SSPs, retail media, measurement, identity, data platforms, or adjacent marketing technologies, you bring the industry knowledge needed to understand customer challenges, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities. You are energized by understanding where the market is heading and what customers will need next. You stay connected to customers, competitors, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

You are naturally curious and continuously looking for ways to strengthen product differentiation and customer value. The partnership and commercial acumen. You have experience evaluating partnership opportunities, developing business cases, and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to deliver solutions that create value for customers and the business.

Whether presenting product strategy to executive leadership, discussing opportunities with customers and partners, or aligning teams around priorities, you know how to build trust, influence decisions, and create alignment. We value open conversations about compensation and are happy to discuss our approach at any stage of the hiring process. We are undergoing a transformative shift.

Whether accessing new technology, restructuring workflows, or expanding your team, you will have full support if you can make the business case. A virtual interview with a Talent Advisor will discuss your interest in the role and background. The conversation will be recorded using BrightHire, an AI-powered video interview tool.

A virtual interview with the COO and the Chief Product Officer. This conversation will explore your approach to product leadership, product strategy, market trends, team development, and your perspective on the future of advertising technology. illumin is firmly committed to diversity within its community and welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, Indigenous People of North America and the world, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ persons, and those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. If you require accommodations at any stage of the interview process, please email us at hr@illumin.

📌 Head of Products - Remote (Toronto)
🏢 illumin
📍 Toronto