Ken Smith

Ken Smith has a strong background in product management and program management. Ken has worked at Airfind as a Product Manager since 2023. Prior to that, they had an extensive career at Microsoft, where they held various senior roles. At Microsoft, Ken was responsible for building, optimizing, and scaling the Microsoft Ad Exchange as part of a $1 billion business. Ken also led a major migration project with a revenue impact worth hundreds of millions of dollars and owned the engineering relationship with multiple demand partners. In addition, Ken built and optimized ad experiences focusing on real-time bidding and display advertising as a Senior Program Manager. Ken managed relationships with advertising and tech partners and led a cross-functional team to design and build a daily revenue data reporting system. Ken also had experience as a Program Manager, where they built and optimized monetization initiatives for Microsoft News while ensuring a fast, user-friendly, and free site. Ken piloted a new method to create sponsorships without dev interaction and successfully salvaged multi-millions a year in revenue through an ad recovery initiative. Before their time at Microsoft, Ken worked as a Producer at Aquent, specifically on Xbox LIVE projects from 2010 to 2013.

Ken Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts - BA degree from the University of Washington.