Advertising Product Manager Job Description
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Advertising Product Manager Job Description
- Develop and manage product vision, business objectives and execution strategies
- Write detailed product, feature, and platform specifications for each functionality or capability that you own and champion, continuously refining the product backlog, acceptance criteria, and deliverables associated with them
- Partner with internal stakeholders and technology vendors to execute both development and implementation phases, ensuring releases that balance client, consumer and business needs across advertising, promotional, and sales programs
- Evaluate potential opportunities by developing business cases that evaluate the revenue impact of new ad features, programs and technologies -- clarify and analyze the associated needs, benefits, and possible solutions -- ultimately leading to a build, buy, or partner strategy recommendation
- Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
- Support interactions and integrations with key customers and industry partners
- Demonstrate quantitative and metrics-driven critical thinking skills, along with the ability and comfort to work very closely with engineering, design, and operations roles on a daily basis
- Create and present C level documentation tactical and action-oriented materials
- Responsible for the planning, development, delivery, and life-cycle management of new video Advertising products & features, platform enhancements, and advanced Advertising technologies for insertion of targeted display, video, and interactive ads across the PlayStation Network’s products and services
- Responsible for working with cross-functional teams from Ad Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Ad Operations, Legal, and software vendors to develop targeted, interactive, and measurable advertising solutions
- Experience in the Agile Product Owner role
- Experience working with customers and deriving product priorities
- Managed multiple product backlogs and facilitate prioritization discussions with a diverse group of stakeholders
- Effective communication skills with individuals at all levels of the organization, both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrated knowledge of internet advertising business and advertising technologies
- Demonstrated knowledge of the digital merchandising and the e-commerce industry
Advertising Product Manager Job Description
- Identify market trends, perform competitive analysis, and assess impact/opportunities for Video Advertising platform for both IP and traditional broadcast TV
- Develop product & platform positioning, feature development roadmap, marketing
- Assess platform functional capabilities, support the assessment of the platform technical capabilities, develop business requirements, and plan for the development of platform enhancements and new advanced Advertising solutions
- Analyze and document operations, methods, capabilities and functionalities of 3rd party Ad Decision Systems
- Manage product platform throughout the product lifecycle
- Work with cross-functional teams in developing, launching, and supporting product releases
- Balance and manage technical, feature, capital funding, and schedule trade-offs
- Develop business cases to obtain budget/funding to support the development of platform enhancements and new Advertising solutions in the future
- Monitor performance results of Advertising service and serve as key communication contact with ad sales operations and external software/platform vendors on product and service issues
- Help build and execute the Data & Compliance product roadmap
- 3+ years experience in a product, program, or technical project management role
- 1+ years experience working on a mobile application or service
- Familiarity with common digital advertising terminology, campaign optimization, analytics, and industry-standard performance benchmarks, user experience best practices
- Minimum 7+ years of demonstrable experience in a product management or related role
- Minimum 5+ years of demonstrable experience in digital advertising
- Knowledge of movie, music and video game service and software industries, business models and markets including competing services desired
Advertising Product Manager Job Description
- Identify key needs, perform gap analysis, assess new product ideas / innovations, determine market opportunity and participate in prioritization of initiatives
- Create product requirements and stories fully describing required features and functionalities for new product innovations
- Work with relevant third parties to assess capabilities and integration requirements as required
- Conduct competitive analysis and research to keep the display advertising product feature set not just competitive, but as a leader in the marketplace
- Effectively coordinate and communicate new feature and functionality release schedules to internal stakeholders including Sales and Ad Operations
- Serve as an external evangelist for our display product offering, working with sales, key customers, and development partners
- Stay up to date on all relevant desktop & mobile web trends and announcements - new browser versions, OS versions, device releases, and industry-related updates, such as HTML5 specifications, OpenRTB spec and other trends such as Cross-Device (desktop & mobile web) marketing trends and innovations
- Define and be responsible for KPIs for measuring success of products and present them to senior management
- Provide content and thought leadership for marketing initiatives
- Support sales opportunities and be seen as one of the Cross-Device display expert internally
- Ability to help define and document business process and desired workflow
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills - Ability to partner with various teams (non-technical to technical)
- At least two years of product management experience or equivalent and two years of advertising technology experience, four to six years total experience preferred
- Product management experience in software products, preferably in digital advertising and mobile marketing
- Understanding of mobile monetization, key metrics, mobile ad formats, and a proven track record of delivering high quality innovative advertising products to the marketplace
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write effective product requirements and training documentation
Advertising Product Manager Job Description
- Write product/marketing requirements documents and user stories and ensure clear communication and coordination of requirements to the marketing, design and development teams
- Measure and analyze existing advertising products for opportunities to innovate and improve, providing additional benefits to customers
- Work cross-functionally to manage bottlenecks, escalate as needed, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences
- Develop new products and monetization efforts by evaluating the competitive landscape, and understanding customer needs and value drivers
- Drive product development efforts across functions, including research, requirements definition, UX, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, and launch efforts
- Define what our advertisers and agencies want from our core display advertising product, including how it’s packaged, how it’s targeted, how it’s tracked, and how it’s reported
- You will manage products through initial launch and follow-on releases, identifying dependencies and clearing blockers to help drive client adoption and retention
- Think big to define opportunities for advertising in a fragmented digital landscape
- Write business cases and produce financial models for our performance business to help all of our implementation teams prioritize competing priorities
- Provide in-depth market, industry, and opportunity analysis
- Entrepreneurial mindset, startup experience will be valued
- Inherent passion about technology and marketing
- Experience working directly with agencies to understand needs, and delivering a service / solution
- 7+ years technology industry experience
- Software, technology, program or product management experience preferably with a media related product
- Minimum 10+ years of software development experience or 5+ year in a hands-on measurement role
Advertising Product Manager Job Description
- Own portions of the roadmap for our advertising platform and products
- Provide a strong sense of ownership and focus on execution
- Define the success metrics for products or services and track performance
- Develop product requirements for new initiatives
- Partner with page owners across devices to ensure a unified customer experience
- Define high quality, simple product roadmaps based on on the product vision
- Work closely with engineering teams and design teams to deliver products to market
- Analyze market and product trends, incorporating real-time feedback from global sales, clients, and other internal partners, third-party market research
- Monitor product adoption, proactively find opportunities and make actionable recommendations to drive product uptake and effectiveness
- Work cross functionally with multiple constituencies, including Sales, Operations, and Product Marketing, to provide input on training, marketing material/collateral and product roll out strategy and processes
- Experience in media industry, online advertising, web-based technologies and/or big data
- Experience as product or program manager within Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development environments
- Proficient in a scripting/programming language Python, Java, C++
- Experience build cloud based solutions
- Experience launching new products and services
- An outstanding oral and written communicator