Senior Product Manager, Audience & Identity

Job Description

Pluto TV, a Paramount Global company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.

We are currently looking for a Senior Product Manager, Audience & Identity, who will Drive the Ad Supply product efforts within the Revenue Product group to ensure the highest, sustained monetization of any platform in the free, ad-supported TV space. This role has a primary focus on enhancing ad inventory monetization based on Audience & Identity signals across our global footprint.

In particular, this person will identify and implement ad monetization opportunities that exist with our advertising, content, and distribution partners. This role will work with all stakeholders to understand market needs in order to create products that directly and measurably drive revenue while building long term value. Identifying and mitigating risks, including opportunity costs, while balancing strategic and tactical approaches will be integral to success. Maintaining a thorough understanding of the rapidly evolving technical, industry, and regulatory landscape is necessary to inform feature and initiative prioritization and development.

Responsibilities Include

This is a significant role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
• Cross-Functional Team Relationship: Develop and maintain healthy and productive, working relationships across the core Revenue Product/Program/Engineering teams, the non-Revenue teams (including: Native Apps, WebTech, Core Services, Data Engineering), as well as Paramount Platforms, Ad Operations, P&I/Sales Leadership, Monetization, Content and Distribution Leadership
• Product Planning: Become familiar with and contribute to the product OKRs, goals, strategies, and roadmap plans for the Audience and Identity initiative and ensure their prioritization on the all-up Revenue Product Roadmap. This includes defining and handling success metrics. Depending on where we are in the quarterly planning cycle, define and advocate for at least one A&I feature to be prioritized within the Scaled Agile Framework we employ.
• Audience Data and Identity Expert (SME): Be the subject matter expert on Audience Data and Identity including available technologies, an in depth knowledge of the competition and drive forth the unique value proposition to Pluto's business. Maintain a current and sophisticated understanding of the evolving privacy and data collection laws as well as new technical challenges and opportunities and plan for future disruptions. Develop and gain approval for specific revenue metrics related to our Audience & Identity program.

Qualities / Experience We're Seeking

We believe the right individual will have the following skills and experience be successful in this role:
• 3+ years of commercial product management experience, particularly with demonstrated leadership in the management of a product (or portfolio of products) from beginning to end of the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to write requirements and work with technical teams, including: Data Engineering, Architecture, Client and Ad Stack Engineering to enable data integrations across multiple systems, APIs, SFTP, S3, Snowflake and successfully release new ad capabilities.
• Ability to evaluate potential vendors and manage existing external relationships to identify the value of those offerings and identifying technical, operational, and privacy related risks
• A solid working knowledge of US and International privacy and data regulations to ensure all enhancements and features developed are compliant and aligned with our privacy first company position.
• Clearly communicate the use cases for collecting and/or using data, it's value to our viewers and business (including revenue modeling) to Legal, Privacy, cross platform teams, and senior leadership.
• Experience and maturity managing business or technology partnerships, including participation in strategy discussions, negotiations and reviewing contracts.
• Experience with digital advertising, preferably in CTV or streaming video.
• Experience with indirect programmatic eco-systems (SSP, DSP, Ad Exchanges)
• Experience building cross-platform experiences (Web technologies, native mobile and CTV applications)
• Adept at tailoring communications depending on the circumstances, whether the audience is technical, non-technical, or executive.
• Intellectual curiosity and passion for identifying key problems that are faced by the business, by the market and by current technologies.
• Track record of results when working collaboratively and being dependent on others.
• Comfort with analyzing data to identify trends, diagnose problems, and finding solutions.

Citizenship

Citizens of Pluto TV have the privilege of entertaining millions of people. We are entrepreneurs looking to revolutionize Television. While our planet is small, our ambition is boundless. The stakes don't get much higher.

Becoming a Citizen is hard work. We need self-starters that thrive in changing environments, who treat company resources like their own, and who deliver seemingly impossible outcomes at warp speed. It's the only way we stay ahead of the giants looking to take the opportunity we have earned. We are selective but once chosen, you're in.

Why You Should Become a Citizen of Pluto TV

While it is hard work, the rewards of citizenship are plentiful. Work with incredible people on some of the most complex projects of your life, while profoundly impacting both Pluto TV and the broader world of entertainment. Share in the epic quest to define the future of television as we know it. Big commitment, big impact, lasting change.

As a Citizen, you will enjoy generously-sponsored medical benefits, a generous vacation policy, 401K retirement plan, social and team events, and more!

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn9535-18-217-108-11-42 in your application.