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We are ambitious trailblazers, aiming to be an indispensable element in brands' media strategy. We are a growing team of 50+ people, working primarily remote, headquartered in Australia and consisting of teams working across APAC and Europe.\nWithin iion, we have built Cognitiion, our AI-driven yield optimization platform. Cognitiion uses marketplace data, automated traffic allocation, experimentation and machine learning to improve how demand partners interact with iion's supply. We are now looking for an experienced demand-yield leader to help us make Cognitiion - and the marketplace strategies around it - progressively smarter.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Director, Marketplace Yield to lead demand-side yield strategy across iion’s marketplace. This role owns the strategy behind Cognitiion - iion’s AI-driven yield optimization platform by identifying what is limiting demand-partner performance and determining what Cognitiion should do differently to improve it. You will work closely with Marketplace leadership to understand partner priorities, use marketplace data to uncover patterns and opportunities, design and run experiments through Cognitiion, and lead the Yield team’s analytical priorities.\nThe role reports into Marketplace leadership, with a dotted line to the VP of AI & Tech, and works closely with Data Science and Engineering to feed proven yield strategies back into the platform.\nRole Responsibilities:\nExchange Yield Strategy\nPartner with Marketplace leadership to understand the commercial and performance objectives of individual SSPs and demand partners, and determine which outcomes matter most for each - revenue, RPR, bid rate, win rate, spend or traffic efficiency.\nDiagnose what is limiting demand-partner performance and identify the most valuable opportunities for optimization, working with the Demand & Publisher Success team to drive positive commercial outcomes.\nLead a small team of Yield Analysts to drive and execute exchange yield strategies.\nYield Intelligence & Diagnosis\nWork hands-on with SSP-level marketplace data to identify performance patterns, anomalies, inefficiencies, and emerging opportunities across supply source, publisher/app, geo, format, device, traffic allocation, and demand rule.\nForm clear hypotheses around performance changes and direct the Yield team’s analytical priorities to ensure investigations lead to action.\nCognitiion Strategy & Experimentation\nOwn the demand-yield experimentation agenda within Cognitiion - independently formulate hypotheses, design and launch experiments, select target traffic/cohorts, and define success metrics and guardrails.\nDetermine what Cognitiion should optimize for a given demand partner or marketplace situation, and decide whether strategies should be scaled, refined, retested, or stopped.\nBuild a continuous experimentation discipline where marketplace observations become hypotheses, hypotheses become Cognitiion strategies, and results generate the next set of learnings.\nMaking Cognitiion Smarter\nIdentify new marketplace signals, optimization opportunities, and decision frameworks that could improve Cognitiion’s effectiveness.\nWork closely with the VP of AI & Tech and Data Science to translate demand-yield insights into requirements for Cognitiion’s intelligence, and establish a strong feedback loop between marketplace performance, experimentation, and platform evolution.\nRole Requirements:\n7+ years of experience across programmatic advertising, SSPs, ad exchanges, yield optimization, demand optimization, or closely related roles.\nDeep understanding of DSP behaviour, programmatic auctions, and demand-side marketplace dynamics.\nDemonstrated experience identifying and improving yield or marketplace performance using data.\nStrong analytical instincts and the ability to work comfortably with large marketplace datasets, recognize patterns, and challenge conclusions.\nExperience developing hypotheses, designing experiments, and making decisions based on measurable outcomes.\nAbility to think in terms of trade-offs - revenue versus scale, efficiency versus exploration, short-term performance versus learning.\nStrong understanding of common demand-side metrics such as revenue/RPR, bid rate, win rate, CPM, request volume, spend, and traffic/QPS efficiency.\nAbility to turn loosely defined marketplace problems into structured analytical questions and optimization strategies.\nExperience directing analysts or analytical workstreams and setting priorities for a team.\nStrong cross-functional communication skills, particularly working across commercial, product, data science, and engineering teams.\nExperience with automated traffic-shaping or yield-optimization platforms, familiarity with experimentation frameworks or statistical testing, and comfort with SQL, Python, or BI tooling are all a plus, though not essential.\n*This is a fully remote opportunity. 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