Product Manager

Dstillery, the custom audience solutions company, empowers brands and agencies to reach their best customers for high-performing programmatic advertising campaigns. Backed by our award-winning Data Science, Dstillery has earned 16 patents (and counting) for the AI technology that powers our precise, scalable audiences. Our newest innovation, ID-free Custom AI™, is a privacy-by-design, behavioral ad targeting solution that performs on par with cookies — without user tracking. Our ID-based premier product, Custom AI Audiences, is a just-for-your-brand targeting solution that continually scores hundreds of millions of users in and out of advertisers’ best audiences.

About the role

This position is an opportunity to be at the forefront of a fast-growing product line and requires someone who is passionate about data, design, and constantly striving to better understand our customers. Reporting to the VP of Product Management at Dstillery, this role is a highly visible function that requires extensive cross-departmental collaboration across all levels of the entire organization. If you are a self-starter who is hungry to make their mark, and passionate about product management, then we want to talk with you.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding and passion for solving real world customer problems. You’re a natural storyteller, with the ability to articulate the customer’s needs to a wide group of stakeholders.
• Brainstorm and validate potential product enhancements from multiple stakeholders - customer, sales, marketing, development, data science, etc. and prioritize developments using a quantifiable approach
• Assist with the strategy and planning for the entire product lifecycle including gathering and prioritizing product requirements, determining the product roadmap, development, go-to-market, and post-release validation
• Work closely with the Engineering and Tech Leads to understand technical feasibility, direction, and costs, and establish the Product team as a critical component of the development workflow
• Become an advocate and champion for the product and company vision
• Collaborate closely with sales and marketing to develop go-to-market strategies optimized for adoption and engagement

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in product management
• Experience working with media agencies, programmatic buying units, and/or DSPs
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills required with the ability to explain advanced concepts to audiences of varying levels

Additional Qualifications:

• Understanding of agile, digital product development
• Aptitude in leading teams through direct management – as well as through cross-functional influence and coalition building
• Ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view and the ability to influence and guide to decisions and finality
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment
• Expertise in building a data-driven approach and discipline to product strategy, prioritization, and development

Dstillery is an EEO Employer