Who We Are
Kargo creates powerful moments of connection between brands and consumers to build businesses. Every day, our 600+ employees work to radically raise the bar on what agentic AI, CTV, eCommerce, social, and mobile can do to deliver unique ad experiences across the world’s most premium platforms. Taking a creative science approach to all we do, we continuously innovate solutions that outperform industry benchmarks and client expectations. Now 20+ years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland.
Who We Hire
Techies who want to build the future. Creatives who want to design it better.
Communicators to win business. Collaborators to build it. Data pros who turn numbers into insights. Product builders who turn ideas into innovations. Anyone eager to be on a team that doesn’t stop to ask what’s next, because they’re already building it.
Our Laurels
- AdAge Best Places to Work
- ThinkLA Partner of the Year
- Built In Best Places to Work
- Cynopsis 2025 Top Women in Media - Jeannine Shao Collins
- Martech Breakthrough Awards - Best Overall Adtech Company
- Digiday Media Awards Best Event
- Cynopsis Media Impact Awards-Best CTV Platform
- Martech Breakthrough Awards-CTV Innovation
- Adweek Media Plan of the Year Awards - Best Use of Insights
Title: Lead Product Manager, Data Products
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Location: New York, NY; 4 Days In Office
The Opportunity
As Lead Product Manager at Kargo you will be responsible for defining the vision and roadmap of the data products that drive revenue growth, improve ad targeting capabilities, deliver deep measurement insights and enhance the overall performance of our advertising across channels and around the globe. You will collaborate closely with other technical product owners, project management, platform & consumer data engineering, research & analytics and sales & marketing. You will drive product development from ideation to launch, including research, requirements definition, metrics analysis, and working with project, design, engineering, QA, product marketing, and others to facilitate discovery, development, testing, and go-to-market effort.
The Daily To-Do
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kargo’s overall business strategy and the broader advertising technology space and develop and execute a strategic roadmap for data products that aligns with overall business objectives and market trends in the ad tech industry.
- Define product requirements and specifications, ensuring they are aligned with customer needs, business goals, and technical capabilities.
- Engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales, marketing, and executive teams, to gather requirements, prioritize features, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Stay on top of market trends, dynamics and competitor offerings to identify opportunities for product differentiation and competitive advantage.
- Contribute to the product development and execution cycles at Kargo by participating in preparation of team sprints and maintenance of a healthy backlog.
- Work with product marketing on go-to-market strategy and take a proactive role in the continued success of your product(s) post launch.
- Support project management on a variety of concurrent projects by managing timelines and deliverables, running meetings, working through scope changes as well as taking a quantitative approach to reporting on product metrics and business KPIs.
- Analyze large and complex datasets, extract actionable insights, and identify opportunities to enhance the performance and efficiency of our products.
- Define KPIs and metrics to measure the success and effectiveness of our products, regularly monitor and report on performance, and make recommendations for optimization and improvement.
Qualifications :
- 3-5 years experience in product management in the ad tech industry
- Strong understanding of the ad tech ecosystem, including programmatic advertising, ad exchanges, demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side platforms (SSPs)
- Strong understanding of user identification and targeting in the ad tech ecosystem, including experience with data management platforms (DMPs) and universal ID and ID graph technologies such as Liveramp, Neustar, Tapad, UID 2.0 and ID5
- Strong understanding of data privacy regulations and frameworks in the ad tech industry (e.g. GDPR, CCPA, TCF, GPP)
- Strong understanding of and experience with Data Clean Room technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Liveramp, Infosum)
- Ability to write and validate SQL queries and to ensure data is validated
- Solid technical acumen and ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and data scientists
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and draw meaningful insights
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Experience with agile development methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, JIRA)
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What We Do
Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world’s leading brands and publishers. Every day, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raising the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to wow consumers and build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland.
Why Work With Us
The key to our success is our people. We’ve built a community that values teamwork, is not afraid to take chances and relentlessly strives to disrupt the industry and stand out from the crowd. Diversity is fundamental to the Kargo culture as we celebrate and embrace our differences in our inclusive workplace.
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