North America Commercial Partnerships Solution Lead - Ads Creative

Location: San Jose Employment Type: Regular Responsibilities Lead and develop the North America CPS team across strategy, business operations, and program management, creating a clear vision, strong team culture, and high-performance operating rhythm. Manage team priorities, resource allocation, and organizational planning to ensure coverage across key commercial initiatives and tentpole moments. Coach and mentor team members across different functions and support talent development, performance management, and long-term capability building. Establish ways of working that improve clarity, accountability, and collaboration within CPS and across the broader NA Creative Ops organization. Own the commercial strategy and packaging approach for premium opportunities across Seasonal Holiday, IP Tentpole, EC Promo, and Advertiser Moments. Oversee the end-to-end execution model for CPS programs, ensuring commercial packages move from concept to launch with strong cross-functional coordination and operational discipline. Guide the development of scalable and bespoke packages across priority verticals including Sports, Music, Entertainment, Lifestyle, and TikTok IP. Serve as the bridge between Product, Sales, Publishers, clients, and Creative Ops, aligning stakeholders around package strategy, feasibility, and execution plans. Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of experience in commercial strategy, partnerships, advertising, media, creative operations, business operations, or program management, with a strong track record in fast-paced, cross-functional environments. 3+ years of people management experience, including leading multidisciplinary teams and developing talent across strategy and operational functions. Proven experience leading complex initiatives that require alignment across Sales, Product, publishers, clients, and other cross-functional stakeholders. Strong commercial judgment with the ability to translate business priorities into clear go-to-market packages, execution plans, and operating decisions. Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, set strategic direction, and drive execution across multiple concurrent workstreams. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence leaders and represent a clear point of view in high-visibility forums. Deep understanding of the digital advertising and media landscape, including how premium moments, partnerships, and integrated programs drive revenue outcomes. Preferred Qualifications Experience leading teams focused on sponsorships, tentpole programming, advertiser moments, or integrated commercial packages. Strong familiarity with TikTok-first commercial storytelling, packaging strategy, and the broader creator and entertainment ecosystem. Experience operating across both strategic planning and executional delivery, with the ability to connect big-picture vision to day-to-day implementation. Track record of building scalable processes, playbooks, and team rituals that improve speed, quality, and cross-functional collaboration. High level of comfort navigating executive discussions, organizational change, and competing stakeholder priorities. Proactive, resilient leadership style with a strong bias toward ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $159000 - $288000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; 2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and 3. Exercising sound judgment. #J-18808-Ljbffr