Product Team Leader

At Optimove, we believe people are capable of more than a single job description. You’re not hired just to fill a position- you’re empowered to shape it, grow it, and make it your own. We call this being Positionless. And Positionless isn’t just our culture. It’s our product. Optimove is the creator of Positionless Marketing, an AI-powered platform that gives every marketer the power to analyze, create, launch, and optimize independently. The result is faster execution, deeper personalization, and 88% greater campaign efficiency. Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, we partner with leading brands like Sephora, Staples, and Entain. Today, more than 550 Optimovers across NYC, London, Tel Aviv, Scotland, Brazil, Estonia, and beyond are building the future of marketing together, in an environment that actively encourages ownership and growth, with two out of every three managers promoted from within. If you’re looking for a place where you can do more, be more, come grow with us. Optimove is redefining the customer relationship management landscape, and we're building the foundational data platform that powers everything we do. We are looking for a passionate and experienced Data Platform Product Team Leader to own and lead the strategic direction of Optimove's Data Platform product team. This is a rare dual role — a hands-on product leader who both manages a team of 2-4 Product Managers and directly drives product work across several engineering teams. You will lead the full lifecycle of the data layer that underpins Optimove: from how data flows in, through identity resolution and real-time event processing, to data activation for segmentation, sharing data back to clients, and building predictive behavioral models on top of it. Your work touches every team in Optimove and every customer we serve. What You'll Own The Data Platform team covers a wide and critical product surface: Data Ingestion — how customer data flows into Optimove from various sources, including batch and real-time event streams, to build a near-real-time single customer profile Identity Resolution & Matching — connecting fragmented customer identities into unified profiles at scale Data Activation — powering Optimove's segmentation engine with fast, reliable access to customer data Data Sharing — exposing enriched data back to clients via APIs, exports, and integrations Predictive Modeling — building behavioral and predictive models that drive intelligent marketing decisions What You'll Do Leadership & Management Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 2–4 Product Managers, setting a high bar for product craft, discovery, and execution Build a strong team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and a bias for impact Set the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Data Platform — and ensure each PM on your team drives their area forward with clarity and urgency Represent the Data Platform as a cross-functional partner to engineering leadership, GTM, and executive stakeholders Hands-On Product Work Personally own product strategy and execution for one or more engineering teams within the Data Platform domain Lead deep discovery work — from customer interviews and data analysis to technical deep-dives with engineering and architecture teams Translate complex infrastructure, big data, and platform challenges into clear product requirements, KPIs, and roadmaps Drive cross-functional alignment across all teams that depend on or consume the Data Platform Technical & Platform Leadership Champion system-level thinking: scalability, reliability, data quality, and low-latency performance Work closely with engineers and architects on high-scale, distributed, event-driven systems Balance platform-level (internal) needs with customer-facing UI/UX aspects of data products Stay current on industry trends in CDPs, data infrastructure, identity resolution, and real-time analytics What We're Looking For 8–10+ years of overall industry experience , with at