Lead Product Manager, Ads

SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.

Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Shanghai, and Beijing.

If you are someone who shares our vision and feels passionately about our mission, we encourage you to apply!

The Team

We actively partake in our company's mission of "Delivering the world’s quality information to the people who need it" through our steadfast support of an uncompromising quality information ecosystem. Furthermore, by curating the most relevant advertisements for our users, we assist businesses in identifying their ideal clientele within our platform, thereby fostering a mutually beneficial relationship.

What you'll be doing

• Align ads strategy and product roadmap with consumer and advertiser needs, evolving market trends, and company's overall mission.
• Define long-term roadmaps, appropriate product/business metrics, prioritize features and evangelize product launches to executives, Product Managers, sales, sales support, go-to-market team, and other stakeholders.
• Develop a product roadmap and write functional product requirements in collaboration with the design, data science, and engineering teams, and other cross-functional partners. Support your team in understanding customer pain points and requirements and developing a plan to address them through roadmaps.
• Manage the cycle of define, build, release, and measure end-to-end.
• Motivate and encourage the team to deliver product and drive product to meet sales goals.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of product management or equivalent experience, preferably within AdTech.
• Proven experience working on large initiatives, across teams, and on highly cross-functional products
• Strong understanding of digital advertising and consumer privacy best practices
• Experience of navigating through a full product lifecycle, integrating customer feedback into product requirements, driving prioritization and pre/post-launch execution.
• Great attention to detail coupled with experience to see the bigger picture, prioritize competing needs and provide extreme clarity to your team and partners.
• A compelling influencer with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be eligible to work in the US

Nice to have experience/skills

• Technical degree (computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics or related field)
• Proficiency in Japanese language is highly valued
• Proven track record of building ML solutions that provide guidance and recommendations to advertisers
• Experience with building 1st party ads products (search, native or display)

Benefits

• Equity included
• 401(k) matching program
• 100% medical, dental and vision insurance coverage (for self and family)
• Benefit plan with monthly allowances
• Free lunch, snacks, drinks at the office

Compensation range of $160,000~$220,000 base salary, plus bonus and equity.