Regional Managing Director, Southern Europe

About Index Exchange
Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen. As a trusted partner and ally, we connect leading experience makers with the world's largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers.

We're a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we're committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large.

What's it like to work at Index?
Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work. You'll be able to feed your ambition, lean into trust and transparency, and feel genuine support from your colleagues. We're built on our core values and live them each day. They're‌ not just buzzwords.

We pride ourselves on our independence and openness, not only in our technology, but in our teams, too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, and we're looking for talented professionals to help take us to the next level.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution?
The Opportunity
Index Exchange is seeking a Regional Managing Director for Southern Europe. This role requires an experienced commercial leader with a deep understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem and a proven track record of building and nurturing senior-level relationships with agencies, publishers, and key stakeholders across the digital marketing landscape in France and across Southern Europe.

This is a highly visible, market-facing leadership role requiring strong commercial execution, strategic thinking, professionalism, and the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with executive decision-makers.

Internally, the role requires close collaboration and knowledge sharing with Commercial and Marketing leadership, as well as Executive leadership across Finance, HR, Legal, and Product. Success in this role requires comfort operating in a matrix organisation and a strong team-first mindset.

What We're Looking For

• Executive leadership experience with strong operational management capability.
• Deep commercial experience and strong negotiation skills, with established relationships across leading media agencies and publishers in France and across Southern Europe.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders across local, regional, and global markets.
• In-depth understanding of the programmatic ecosystem and the role played by publishers, broadcasters, aggregators, enterprise sellers, DSPs, agencies, agency trading desks, advertisers, and brands.
• Working knowledge of human resource management, including employment legislation and labour laws within Southern Europe.
• Proven experience setting and delivering regional goals aligned to broader company strategy.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-growing, evolving organisation where priorities and strategy may shift.
• Experience leading and collaborating effectively within a matrixed, global environment.

Here's What You Need

• Extensive leadership experience within an AdTech or digital advertising company
• Strong organisational skills combined with executive-level operational management
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term vision and short-term execution
• Buy side relationships and mindset, to advocate for the needs of our agency and advertiser partners
• Proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with executive decision-makers at both media agencies and publishers
• Deep, hands-on understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape and its key stakeholders
• Experience with close collaboration with Legal and Finance teams.
• Fluent French and English are mandatory.
• Beneficial if you possess strong financial acumen, including P&L ownership and financial operations.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here

Equal employment opportunity
At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities
Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Index everywhere, Index anywhere
Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, London, Paris, Sydney and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.