Senior Product Manager

Manifest is seeking a Senior Product Management to lead the definition and scale of our product advertising platform. You will guide a growing team of 10+ engineers while charting the future of our product. You will participate in all aspect of product development from communicating vision and strategy to executives down to writing individual stories. This is an incredible growth opportunity for an entrepreneurial PM with 3-5 years experience looking for autonomy and product ownership within a fast growing business.

In a given week, you'll meet with internal users and customers to research potential product features. You'll work closely with engineers to build and deploy new features. You'll organize our upcoming roadmap discussing priorities with the executive team; determine project definitions with engineers, data scientists, and designers; and document your ideas in JIRA. You'll project manage the Account Managers and Media Analysts executing pilot tests of new or potential features. You'll watch millions of dollars in ad spend and billions of impressions flow through the platform that you're ultimately responsible for.

About Manifest Commerce

At Manifest, we are taking a new approach to advertising: building a product intelligence engine for ads. Our system generates product-level ads across a retailer's entire catalog. It identifies the products with the highest potential and hyper-targets them to exactly the right audience. We do this at scale and automatically across a retailer's entire catalog. We want our ads to be so good that people discover interesting products through them.

Manifest Commerce is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten Marketing USA -- the global ad tech division of one of the largest E-Commerce companies in the world.

About You

You have spectacular communication skills, a strong analytical DNA, and a spidey sense for user experience. We value boldness, accountability, and geniuneness. We want you to take risks, make mistakes, acknowledge them, learn from them, and then keep going.

You are a natural leader. You obsess about user experience and details more than anyone else you know. You’re always extremely prepared for everything you do. People love talking to you because you listen carefully and always try to find a solution to our problems even if the solution isn’t software.

Above all, you are humble. You give the team credit for wins and take responsibility for misses. When you make a mistake, you identify the root cause behind that mistake, and you study that area of failure so deeply that everyone later considers you a leader in that space.

This role does will not initially have any direct reports, but this is potentially a management opportunity for the right candidate. We expect our product organization to grow significantly, ideally around you. You are not only comfortable with this, but motivated by the opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Expand our product ads platform to multiple new advertising platforms (e.g. Pinterest, Twitter, etc.)
• Create and contribute to a compelling vision for Manifest as the unifying product advertising platform across Social, Search and more
• Become Manifest’s internal expert on all facets of our partner APIs, creative specifications, reporting interfaces, etc.
• Lead a cross functional team of engineers, UX designers to bring your product ideas to life
• Work with Sales and Client Success teams to launch our products to our client base
• Seek requirements from our client services and media buying team (and their customers)
• Design and prioritize 3-6 months of potential projects for the engineers with which you work using Productboard and JIRA
• Communicate with stakeholders and executives about the prioritization decisions you're making
• Collaborate in portions of the Engineering team's Agile sprint process to help them make progress

Qualifications:

• 3+ years working in an ads related product role
• Experience working with advertising APIs such as Google AdWords, Facebook, etc.
• Understanding of the Native Ads landscape
• Demonstrated success working with cross-functional teams
• Passion for talking to clients
• Strong problem solving skills
• Ability to thrive in a fun and fast-paced environment
• A roll up your sleeves attitude and a great sense of humor
• A BS in Computer Science or related field preferred or a really good story explaining why you don't need it

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