Director, Inventory Curation

WHO WE ARE  Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com. THE ROLE We are seeking an ambitious, highly experienced programmatic leader to join our Partnerships team and lead our inventory curation efforts. This role is both strategic and executional, responsible for building and scaling our curation business while remaining deeply hands-on in campaign and deal execution.  As a senior leader, you will own media decisioning across our curated inventory products ensuring performance, scalability, and accuracy across all SSP integrations. You will operate as the connective tissue between Partnerships, Trading, Sales, and Analytics, bringing both a deep understanding of the supply ecosystem and a strong operator mindset.  This is a unique opportunity to help build a new and high-growth business line within the company. We are looking for a true inventory expert: someone who understands supply, data, and deal mechanics inside and out, and can translate that into scalable, revenue-driving solutions. This role is hybrid out of our New York City office. Key Responsibilities  Build and scale curated supply solutions across the Zeta DSP  Define and evolve the curation strategy, including packaging and go-to-market approach  Identify new opportunities to leverage data, inventory, and partnerships to drive incremental revenue  Establish best practices and scalable processes for curation across the organization  Own the full deal lifecycle: setup, QA, launch, optimization, and troubleshooting  Create and manage Deal IDs (PMP, PG, curated deals) across SSPs  Ensure accurate implementation of targeting, data signals, and deal parameters  Monitor performance in real time and optimize for delivery, win rate, CPM efficiency, and campaign KPIs  Work directly in-platform to execute and optimize the deals in tandem with the Traders   Serve as a subject matter expert across all integrated SSP platforms  Partner with SSPs and our internal Data Cloud team to...