Senior Product Manager - Activations (Activation Back-End & Matching)

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform. We are committed to connecting the world’s data safely and effectively, advancing innovation, and empowering people to do good. Our platform powers customer experiences centered around the needs and concerns of real people, keeping the Internet open for all. We enable individuals around the world to connect with the brands and products they love. LiveRampers thrive on solving challenging problems for the good of humanity—and we’re always looking for smart, kind, and creative people to help us get there.

Mission: LiveRamp makes it safe and easy for businesses to use data effectively.

Marketers are looking for ways to engage audiences with a personalized experience across multiple platforms. Our Activation & Data Management team supports LiveRamp’s industry leading Audience Activation product that helps Marketers translate their data so they can securely reach their target audiences in the right context, across   the advertising ecosystem, setting the foundation for long-lasting customer relationships and own the Data Model and manipulation tools required to do this at scale and across all LiveRamp Products. In this context, this role owns the vision and definition of the key stats and metrics our customers use to evaluate LiveRamp and their business opportunities across our different products. With the industry changes coming up for cookies and mobile Ad IDs,
we are looking for a strong leader to drive the change and carry the vision for LiveRamp and our customers.

You will:

● Collaborate with x-functional leaders to define a clear and measurable product strategy

● Understand customer needs and use them to inform clear product priorities

● Take accountability for delivering against a roadmap, leveraging product management and agile development best practice

● Set Vision: Create and articulate a long-term product vision and strategy in alignment with the broader company strategy and validated by customer needs and market trends.

● Influence Product Team and Execution:

○ Influence And Empower world-class product managers with tools and standards
○ Establish culture to reliably translate requirements into product delivery
○ Establish business-outcome-based OKR prioritization and roadmap in collaboration with Sales, Product Marketing, Legal, Engineering, etc....
○ Guide and mentor team members to navigate complex dependence management and make short and long term trade-offs across multiple products / stakeholders.

● Create alignment on priority and approach: Drive alignment on how our stats and metrics are defined and deployed.

○ Work with Commercial Leaders (Sales, Marketing, Ops) to understand customer needs, market trends and to align on product roadmap
○ Work with CTO and Engineering Leadership to build technology that maximizes customer value and creates the desired customer experience
○ Work with various other functions to deliver product and revenue end-to-end, e.g., Product Marketing, Legal, Operations

Your team will:

● Translate executive vision into action. i.e., move the entire company and tech stack towards self-service SaaS, API first, (selectively PaaS), cloud native, scalable products
● Deliver revenue growth of multiple applications, e.g., B2C, TV
● Be accountable leaders. We deliver what we say we will deliver and communicate clearly with all functions at all levels.

About you:

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical field, or equivalent experience.
● 2+ years of experience as a product management or similar role.
● Comfort working at the technical level - understanding APIs, full stack, systems architecture, adtech ecosystem

Bonus Points:

● Experience in digital advertising market working with advertisers and/or agencies and experience with internet-enabled TV advertising.
● Experience working collaboratively with multi-functional, distributed teams in multiple time zones. Ability to listen, articulate positions, and advocate designs.
● Track record of successfully launching and scaling SaaS and PaaS platforms across markets. Demonstrating clear data-driven insights combined with instinct for knowing what internal / external stakeholders want, resulting in outstanding product results.
● Track record of success in the full lifecycle of product management. Includes both product strategy and execution, from defining customer needs to defining clear user stories, priorities, engineering delivery and go-to-market.
● Ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, demonstrating an entrepreneurial drive.
● Ability to influence without authority, working with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report into this role to get things done.
● Customer focus. Experience working closely with sales, SVP/C suite as well as specific partnerships to clearly define customer needs and product opportunities.
● Known to take ownership of outcomes through working with others and stay accountable to actions
● Ability to turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions.
● You can write queries where needed or are open to learning. You will not create software, but you will work with software engineers, and you may perform analyses.

● Optional experience in AI/ML.

Benefits:

● People: work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
● In-Office Food: enjoy catered meals, boundless snacks, and the occasional food truck.
● Fun: we host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.

● Work/Life Harmony: flexible paid time off, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
● Whole Health Package: medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance. Plus mental health support (via Talkspace) and fitness reimbursement up to $100 per month.
● Savings: our 401K matching plan helps you plan ahead.
● RampRemote: a comprehensive program to assist you in setting up a home office that works for you
● Location: work in the heart of San Francisco or remotely

More about us:

LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And
we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our
guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. 

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 

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