Senior Product Manager – Platform

Position Summary

Why join our team?
Founded in 2017, Samsung Ads (Europe) is a high-growth division within Samsung, already proud to be at the forefront of redefining advertising in the Advanced TV, Gaming and Mobile industry! Our mission is to help consumers discover relevant content and brands, while providing advertisers with the opportunity to amplify their brand messaging and fully surround the Samsung audience.
Powered by deep analytics and industry-leading technology, Samsung Ads is an intuitive audience platform, delivering meaningful experiences to reach the right audience across Connected TVs (CTVs), mobiles devices and desktops! With our unrivalled proprietary dataset, powered by Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), combined with third-party data from trusted partners, we offer advertisers real-time TV viewing and mobile insights throughout Europe.
From native ad placements on millions of Samsung CTVs and mobile devices, to seamless activation across surrounding connected-devices, we help marketers make informed decisions through our unparalleled reach, ad experiences and deep insights. Our breadth of data - from consumer viewership to connected-device usage - helps inform richer insights, providing advertisers the ability to bridge the linear TV, mobile and digital landscapes.
You will work within the European Ad product team to deliver the roadmap for our Samsung Ads platform in Europe, incorporating millions of Samsung mobile devices, Smart TVs and third-party connected devices within the Samsung home. They will play a key role in developing our market-leading publisher and advertiser platform for customers in 18+ countries.

Role and Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

• Implement the product vision, applying go-to-market strategies and performance measurement of Samsung’s ad formats in Europe to design and launch new products while championing the current offering to ensure long-term adoption by advertisers.

• Support the creation of a roadmap delivering revenue-generating ad products for agencies and advertisers by gathering requirements from our European clients, sales teams and internal ops teams.

• Manoeuvre blockers in the delivery pathway, be it technical, legal or organisational, and think creatively and practically to resolve them.

• Collaborate with the Product Marketing team to communicate product solutions to the sales team, including market launches and supporting materials.

• Coordinate with our Biz Ops, Ad Ops, Privacy and Analytics teams to ensure products are operationally ready for launch, including pricing, campaign activation, billing and reporting.

• Analyse data to review operational efficiency and measure success.

• Liaise with the business teams in North America, India, MENA, APAC and South Korea (Corporate) to ensure global parity for our platform and products, while navigating the nuances in different European markets, such as privacy law, technical enablement, industry maturity, currency and language.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Understanding of mobile display and video advertising, TV OS ad formats, ad exchanges, rich media formats, ad measurement and ad industry challenges and issues.

• Experience working in a product role in the ad tech industry, with a good understanding of media sales across mobile and CTV environments.

• Strong understanding of GDPR and the considerations required when developing ad product solutions.

• Excellent communication and partner leadership skills, across different teams, seniority levels and locations, including Europe, Mountain View and Bangalore.

• Ability to combine long-term critical thinking with a need to meet business goals in a constantly evolving environment.

• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues, as well as translating commercial and business requirements into technical specification.

• Excellent presentation abilities, both one-to-one and in larger groups, essential for product demos and partner meetings.

• Experience working as or directly with internal or external agency account managers, advertising buyers, ad ops, advertising customer success managers.

• Desire to build strong working relationships with peers and senior execs, and to embed yourself within sales, product, and engineering teams to earn trust and agreement.

• Strong influencing skills, driving a sense of urgency and engagement throughout the organisation.

• Experience in market analysis and working with commercial, marketing, and operational teams to build arguments and requirement documents.

• Experience in creating product requirement documents (PRD) and working with global Product and Engineering teams in order to deliver the product roadmap.

What does success look like?

• Supporting the launch and growth of ad products that empower advertisers to build their businesses in meaningful ways.

• Achieving measureable growth in revenue and increased client usage of managed ad products.

• Positive partner feedback from stakeholders collaborating with the European Ads Product team.

The interview process

The intended process is as follows, but may be subject to change:

Stage 1 = Screening (30mins): 121 with ESBO Hiring Manager

Stage 2 = Product Strategy (60mins): 121 with ESBO Hiring Manager(s)

Stage 3 = Behaviours (60mins): Panel with 2-3 Samsung Ads people.

Skills and Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

• Car allowance

• Healthcare cash plan or private medical – family cover

• Income protection

• Enhanced pension contribution

• Three volunteering days each year

• Flexible benefit portal and contribution of £55 per month - including travel insurance, gym membership, season ticket loan, Tastecard, dental insurance and more

• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

• Access to a discount shopping portal

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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