Director - Analytics Products and Solutions

Job Description Role: Director - Analytics Products and Solutions Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) Role Type: People Leader (multi-team / product portfolio) Reporting to: COO What we are- MiQ  We’re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we’re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.  Role purpose As Director - Analytics Products and Solutions , you will be the technical leader who owns the end-to-end architecture, solutioning, and delivery of MiQ's local product portfolio. Product strategy, roadmap prioritisation, and go-to-market plans are owned by commercial product leadership; you will partner closely with them, contributing technical feasibility, architectural input, and solutioning expertise to shape what gets built. Your core accountability is for how products are built, tested, deployed, maintained, and evolved - spanning product architecture, scalability best practices, DevOps, QA and testing frameworks, adoption tracking, and Agile/Scrum delivery practices - ensuring world-class engineering practices and leveraging AI accelerators to ship high-quality solutions at speed. You will also maintain strong awareness of and hands-on familiarity with modern data and analytics tooling (Ex: Databricks, Spark, Gathr) to inform sound technology choices. As you help shape the strategy, prioritisation, and evolution of MiQ’s Local Products capability - in partnership with commercial product leadership - your core mandate is also to ensure Local Products builds the right capabilities - not just more capabilities - by: Defining what Local Products should and should not build Establishing clear ownership boundaries with Sigma (central product) Driving prioritised, scalable, high-impact product development by integrating AI accelerators into the process Shifting Local Products from a reactive build function to a structured, product-led capability layer This is a technical leadership and product governance role with deep technical depth, working in close partnership with commercial product leadership - who are accountable for product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plans. You will work at the intersection of: Data Science organisation – partnering with the DS leadership to translate models and analytical capabilities into production-ready product features. Local Product & Commercial teams – shaping products that drive measurable business outcomes for key markets. Engineering & Platform teams – ensuring products are robust, scalable, well-tested, and cost-efficient. Data & Analytics (DnA) – leveraging reusable data assets and analytical capabilities. What you'll do 1. Product Vision, Strategy, Identity & Roadmap Ownership Define the role of Local Products within MiQ’s ecosystem: As the agency solutions layer (planning, activation, signal generation) …