About DoubleVerify
DoubleVerify (DV) is the industrys leading media effectiveness platform that leverages AI to drive superior outcomes for global brands.
By creating more effective, transparent ad transactions, DV strengthens the digital advertising ecosystem, ensuring a fair value exchange between buyers & sellers of digital media. Learn more at .
About the role
DoubleVerify is seeking a Head of News to join our Policy, Safety & Global Affairs team. The Head of News will be a senior leader responsible for continuing to grow & strengthen our partnerships with news publishers & lead cross-functional innovation for our solutions that evaluate global news content & support the publisher industry.
The person in this role will work to build relationships with publishers, ensure our products continue to evolve to support news media outlets in their monetization, & work with advertiser clients to ensure they are effectively scaling campaigns on news sites within their specific campaign goals.
Candidates should have strong existing relationships with news outlets, a clear understanding of digital media monetization & knowledge of or interest in internet policy issues, content policy & media regulatory issues and / or law.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate & develop relationships with global, national & local news publishers.
- Lead the development of a working group with representatives from media outlets that will partner with DV on product innovations to support news media monetization.
- Collaborate with civil society organizations & regulators to ensure DoubleVerifys approach to classification is supportive of news media.
- Drive the teams strategic planning & effective execution of all news related initiatives including PR & thought leadership.
- Guide & oversee policy positions for news content classification.
- Maintain strong working relationships with product management & operations teams to ensure policies are implemented across features.
- Work closely with cross functional partners to understand & research public opinions & advertiser perspectives in order to inform policy development including policy creation & policy adjustments.
- Collaborate with linguists & data scientists creating classification models based on product policy.
Minimum Qualifications
- 9+ years of work experience in news media advertising & journalism.
- Strong existing relationships with new media publishers.
- Experience working in or with public policy, product policy, content policy or brand safety & suitability roles or in media regulatory issues, regulation of user generated content, or media policy.
- Experience in or working with the technology industry.
- Excellent writing & analytical skills.
- Familiarity with web & social media content trends.
- Passion for building partnerships.
- Interest in policy & content classification / moderation.
- Experience working cross-functionally to achieve business results.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with national & international policy proposals or frameworks for addressing harmful content online.
- Familiarity with internet policy issues.
- Familiarity with content moderation or classification.
- Masters in Journalism, Public Policy, International Relations, Law or MBA.
The successful candidates starting salary will be determined based on a number of non-discriminating factors, including qualifications for the role, level, skills, experience, location, & balancing internal equity relative to peers at DV.
The estimated salary range for this role based on the qualifications set forth in the job description is between $162,000 - $212,000 .
This role will also be eligible for bonus / commission (as applicable), equity, & benefits.
The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description; however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, & recognize that the person we hire may be more or less experienced than this job description as posted.
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