Product Manager, Social

Mediaocean is powering the future of the advertising ecosystem with technology that empowers brands and agencies to deliver impactful omnichannel marketing experiences. With over $200 billion in annualized ad spend running through its software products, Mediaocean deploys AI and automation to optimize investments and outcomes. The company's advertising infrastructure and ad tech tools are used by more than 100,000 people across the globe. Mediaocean owns and operates Prisma, the industry's trusted system of record for media management and finance, Flashtalking, the world's largest independent ad server and creative personalization platform, as well as Protected Media, the MRC-accredited ad verification solution for brand safety and fraud detection. Visit www.mediaocean.com for more information. 

What You Will Do:

As Product Manager, Social, you will be part of a team who owns cross-publisher tools covering the end-to-end management and optimization of social advertising. You’ll help conceive, architect, and implement new market-leading products and product features which aid our clients’ efficiencies and profitability.

Responsibilities will include:

• Work with Product Team to develop product strategy and translate that into a prioritized product roadmap and short-term backlog
• Own creative production and trafficking capabilities tailored specifically for social advertisers
• Actively assess customer feedback, requests, and changing market needs to identify high impact features to prioritize and incorporate into product roadmap
• Clearly communicate the product roadmap, strategy, and prioritization to stakeholders across the company
• Produce, maintain, and manage product specs and documentation, work with UX team to on wireframes and mockups, evaluate build feasibility and timelines with engineering counterparts, and shepherd features to release in market
• Work cross-functionality with Product Marketing to develop Go-to-Market plans, with Sales and Client Success to facilitate successful client and prospect engagement, and with Partnerships to maintain strong relationships with publisher partners

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience to B2B software, marketing tech, or e-commerce. Some examples:
•  Product Management, Product Marketing, or UX Design at a B2B SaaS company
•  Engineering at a company with strong Product/Engineering collaboration
•  A senior role on an Agency or Brand e-commerce buying team
• Experience in roles working cross-functionally with a wide breadth of stakeholders, users, engineers, and business leaders to generate buy-in
• Experience with go-to-market processes and launching products
• Experience working with advertising platform and technology APIs
• Understanding of social advertising ecosystems and creative personalization solutions and workflows
• Proficiency with product management tools and processes for platform analytics, customer feedback, feature prioritization, and roadmapping
• Ability to develop and implement meaningful criteria to measure the success of a product or feature.
• Proven analytical and quantitative skills with demonstrated ability to act on insights gleaned from data.
• Experience working with engineering teams to define, scope and prioritize product requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Able to calibrate communication style ranging from nuanced, persuasive conversations to straightforward technical chats.
• Confidence to make and stick to tough decisions—including when it means saying “no” to the loudest voices in the room—but flexibility to change course when the situation requires it.
• Demonstrated experience of thinking creatively, taking the initiative, and constructively advocating on behalf of clients and/or customers.

Why Mediaocean?

• Competitive total compensation, including 401(K) employer match and financial wellness seminars 
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision plan – Keep your family (or just yourself!) safe and healthy
• Flexible time off – In addition to our 14 company holidays, we provide open PTO to all U.S.- based Mediaocean employees. So take a sick day, vacation day, or mental health day 
• Bonding Leave – After six months of employment at Mediaocean, mothers and fathers, including same-sex parents, can take job-protected, paid time off to bond with their child within the first 12 months of the child’s birth or adoption 
• Insurance, Pet Insurance, employer matched Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Professional development – Personalized development plan created with your manager, continuous internal and external trainings, official company-wide mentorship program, professional development rewards program, management, leadership, and function-specific training for top performance, education reimbursement 
• Get rewarded for demonstrating Mediaocean values 
• Active affinity-based groups – Form connections with similar peers in offices around the world. Groups include: Women at MO, Black Employees at Mediaocean (BEMO), Pride at MO, Mi gente (Hispanic/Latinx community), AAPI at MO, Parents at MO, International Enrichment, Language Lovers, Books & Beyond, DEI in Engineering, and Mental Health & Wellness, and Caregivers United
• Wellness opportunities – Free virtual yoga and abs and glutes classes, company-paid Headspace meditation app membership, company-wide steps challenges, complimentary snacks in-office
• Bikeshare program in select offices, (Divvy and CitiBike for Chicago and New York offices)
• All of these benefits/perks are effective on the date of hire

We would hate to miss out on your application because you do not meet every requirement – transferrable skills and education will also be considered, so please do not hesitate to apply! 

Mediaocean recognizes our true strength and value shine when all our team members feel there is space in the conversation for their voices, thoughts, ideas, perspectives, and concerns. Mediaocean is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, and we consider all applicants regardless of their age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 

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