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# Platform Partnerships Manager at Index Exchange

- **Company:** Index Exchange
- **Location:** Düsseldorf, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/index-exchange/am9icG9zdDqVCZ-IZKhmQ7ejqhh0uZle

## Job description

About Index Exchange:

Index Exchange is a globally trusted independent supply-side platform, powering intelligent decisioning that maximizes value for media owners. As a neutral, conflict-free exchange, we help media owners connect more effectively with the world’s leading brands, enabling marketers to achieve stronger performance while advancing efficiency, transparency, and quality across the programmatic ecosystem.

With more than 20 years of industry leadership, we continue to accelerate the ad technology evolution by applying intelligence closer to the impression and reducing waste across the supply chain. Through radically transparent practices and exceptional standards, we deliver long-term value for media owners, marketers, and partners worldwide.

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](https://www.indexexchange.com/careers/) 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](https://www.indexexchange.com/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/) 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? Index Exchange is hiring a Platform Partnerships Manager to join our DSP team! In this role you will focus on growing revenue from DSPs partners across EMEA. You'll work closely with the wider Partner Services org, delivering exceptional customer service to all of our partners.

What we’re looking for:

- Strategic: An expert in strategic account management. We’ll look to you to identify actionable insights and new opportunities for our DSP clients to increase revenue and drive greater marketplace demand. Provided upward feedback to leadership for the purpose of formulating longer term business strategies and plans.
- Collaborative: In order to provide best-in-class service to our DSP partners, you will work cross-functionally with various operation, service, and analytics teams globally, and become a subject matter expert on the performance and growth of our partners.
- Communicative: You will be working with a number of clients at any given time and be expected to communicate effectively, and often, both internally and externally. This is a highly visible, client facing role, where building trusted relationships with DSP partners is crucial to success.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

- You will manage a portfolio of strategic and global DSP partnerships, and act as a consultant and trusted partner for them.
- Provide expert level customer service to our DSP partners.
- Execute Index Exchange initiatives through consultative sales approaches.
- Be an expert on and evangelize the value of the Index offerings with your book of business.
- Work with a global, omnichannel, and revenue driven mindset.
- Look for ways to optimize DSP relationships to increase ad spend and Index share of voice.
- Work alongside global counterparts to collaborate on strategy to grow accounts across all Index global markets.
- Be an expert on your partner’s performance to identify issues.
- Remain accountable for goals and KPIs.
- Collaborate with the Index Product team to assist in future product development and strategic planning that will enhance the business and create additional value to our DSP partners.

Here's what you need:

- 3-5+ years of experience in digital media
- A deep understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape
- An excellent business acumen to develop long term strategic visions for partners and the business.
- A proven track record of relationship building and managing successful partnerships.
- A proven track record of business development and new business generation.
- The rare balance of creative problem solver and detail oriented.
- You’re an organized, self-starter, and are your own “best” critic.
- Proficiency in English with excellent oral and written communication skills and a strong attention to detail.

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
- Monthly 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](https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indexexchange.com%2Fabout%2Fdiversity-equity-inclusion%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cbd817b7937664bdeb2b008db095e285e%7Cb07c069022b843668d8d7b845d088e18%7C1%7C0%7C638114072223704542%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=I7VfjnjaTtyacfynF7cGU7TSsL32hK3xgUETeVqkB7E%3D&reserved=0)

## 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, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, 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.

AI Disclaimer: Automated tools including artificial intelligence may be used to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this role. All hiring decisions involve human review.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

## About Index Exchange

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform (SSP) that enables media owners to maximize the value of their content and helps marketers reach consumers across any screen and ad format.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in current sources

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Advertising Technology (Ad Tech) / Programmatic Advertising
- **Target Customers**: B2B — media owners, publishers, advertisers, brands, agencies, and demand-side platforms (DSPs)
- **Mission**: To build a safe and transparent omnichannel marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, while upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **Index Exchange SSP**: The core supply-side platform that lets media owners manage and sell their ad inventory programmatically across display, video, mobile, and other formats.
- **Index Cloud**: A neutral compute environment for decisioning closer to when impressions originate. It allows partners to deploy their own models, data, and logic in isolated infrastructure adjacent to the transaction, reducing latency and signal loss while maintaining the autonomy of the public cloud.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue — USD $130M (per LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed; however, the company has made acquisitions including RiVR (June 2022) and several international entities (Index Exchange Italy, Germany, UK, USA). Talent sources and alumni include Google, Amazon, The Trade Desk, Criteo, and StackAdapt.
- **Growth Signals**: 520 employees (+4.3% YoY), operates in 8 countries with workforce distributed across 15 countries, 27 active job postings as of the latest data, and the recent launch of Index Cloud.

## Competitive Advantages
- Radically transparent business practices and a focus on total market efficiency
- Over 20 years of experience in ad technology innovation
- Global omnichannel marketplace connecting publishers and brands across all screens
- Proprietary technology, including the neutral compute environment of Index Cloud
- Strong engineering and product organization (250+ product and tech employees)

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid Work**: Employees come into the office Tuesday–Thursday, with remote work on Monday and Friday; exceptions available. Employees can also work from anywhere four weeks per year.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Company equity, 401(k), disability insurance, dental insurance, and mental health benefits (including an employee assistance program and trained Mental Health First Aiders).
- **Parental Leave**: 100% of wages paid to birthing parents for up to 26 weeks, with an option for six additional unpaid months; support for adoptive and non-birthing parents; post-parental leave return-to-work program.
- **Work-Life Balance**: Flexible schedules, $50/month wellness stipend, and 20–30 days of PTO plus company holidays.
- **Culture & Development**: Bi-weekly global town halls, open office layout, job training and conferences, and employee resource groups (Index Black, Index Diversability, Index Pride, Index Women).
- **Employer Rating**: 4.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (301 reviews) — Work-Life 4.2, Compensation 4.3, Culture 4.0, Career 4.0.

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