Wpp

Senior Director, Product Management (ID Activation)

New York, New York, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

Lead the product strategy and roadmap for identity-driven audience activation across the advertising ecosystem. Own the full activation lifecycle, manage partner integrations, and lead a team of product managers.

What you will do

  • Set the product vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for ID Activation capabilities
  • Identify expansion through new identity providers, destinations, channels and integrations
  • Build business cases and prioritize investments
  • Own the end-to-end audience activation lifecycle
  • Enable activation across programmatic, social, connected TV and emerging channels
  • Lead product management for media platform, identity provider and clean-room partner integrations
  • Shape identity and data strategy with Privacy, Legal and Security teams
  • Define success measures for activation products
  • Lead and develop a team of product managers
  • Serve as liaison across Product, Engineering, Commercial and other teams

Required qualifications

  • Typically 8+ years of product-management experience in AdTech, martech, identity, data platforms or audience activation
  • Typically 3+ years in people-leadership or product-leadership capacity
  • Strong understanding of DSPs, SSPs, clean rooms, identity ecosystems and programmatic advertising infrastructure
  • Experience managing external technology partnerships and complex third-party integrations
  • Technical fluency in APIs, data-exchange platforms, identity-resolution systems and cloud-based data platforms
  • Ability to balance long-term strategy with hands-on execution and prioritization
  • Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with identity providers such as LiveRamp, TransUnion, Experian, Neustar, RampID or UID2
  • Familiarity with clean-room platforms such as InfoSum, Snowflake or Habu
  • Experience building audience activation products for large advertisers, agencies, publishers or media platforms
  • Knowledge of retail media, commerce data and advanced audience-targeting solutions
  • An MBA or advanced degree in a related field

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (details at mybenefits.wpp.com)
  • Hybrid work with teams in the office around four days a week
  • Scale and opportunity to influence projects across the industry
  • Challenging and stimulating creative problem-solving work

Before you apply

  • WPP is an equal opportunity employer
  • Accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with the hiring team during interviews

About the company

WPP is a growth partner for the world's leading brands, combining media intelligence, data, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and strategic counsel. It works with major brands across 100+ markets.