About Appodeal
Appodeal is a dynamic US-based product company with a truly global presence. We have offices in Warsaw, Barcelona and Parkland (FL), along with remote team members located around the world. Our company thrives on diversity, collaboration, and innovation, making us a leader in the mobile app monetization space. We are united by a common mission: Help people discover and grow their talents through products that enable successful mobile app businesses!
Role Overview
We are seeking an independent board director with deep experience operating ML-driven products and data platforms at scale. This is a non-executive board position, not an operating role. This role is not focused on academic research or algorithm development. Instead, we are looking for a leader who has built organizations where data, experimentation, and machine learning directly drive product decisions, optimization, and revenue growth.
Appodeal is building a performance-driven technology platform powered by data and machine learning. Our systems rely on large-scale data pipelines, real-time decision systems, automated optimization, and experimentation and model iteration. The company operates an ecosystem including advertising infrastructure, a demand-side platform (DSP), a supply-side platform (SSP), and mobile game publishing and development.
Strategic Focus and Responsibilities
The mission of this role is to strengthen the board’s ability to guide the company in building a world-class data and machine learning organization. The director will contribute a perspective on: * Structuring and scaling data science teams; * Designing experimentation-driven product cultures; * Building high-quality data platforms and infrastructure; * Integrating ML systems into business decision processes; * Best practices for data-driven product development; * Organizational structures that allow ML systems to improve continuously.
Board members are expected to: * Participate in quarterly board meetings; * Provide independent strategic guidance to the CEO and leadership team; * Contribute to discussions around data platform strategy and ML-driven product development; * Provide perspective on organizational structure for data science and ML teams; * Help evaluate major technical and infrastructure investments; * Share insight from companies where ML directly drives business outcomes.
With an outstanding product and a mission that excites and inspires, Appodeal offers a unique opportunity to make an impact while being part of an amazing team. We value continuous learning and growth, making an impact, solving exciting challenges, and enjoying the journey. The estimated time commitment is approximately four weeks per year, including preparation and participation in board meetings as well as occasional strategic discussions with the leadership team.
We are looking for a technology or product leader who has built ML-driven product organizations where data science plays a central role in revenue generation and product optimization. Ideal candidates bring: * Deep experience running ML-driven product organizations; * Strong operational judgment; * Experience building data-driven engineering cultures; * An independent mindset and willingness to challenge assumptions constructively.
Expertise in the following areas is highly valued: * Building strong data science organizations; * Designing data platforms and experimentation infrastructure; * Integrating ML into product decision loops; * Developing operating cultures built around data and experimentation.
Prior board experience is welcome but not required.
