Product Manager, Ads (targeting)

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Angeles, CA +4 · Product Management

Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and execution of Netflix's Ads Targeting Platform, focusing on structuring, surfacing, and activating audience and contextual signals for forecasting, media planning, and advertiser sales. This role requires deep technical fluency and commercial instincts to define the long-term direction for targeting signal architecture, governance, and consumption, while driving near-term delivery against a complex roadmap. The PM will act as a liaison between sales, GTM, engineering, and data science, translating market demands into platform capabilities and ensuring targeting infrastructure is a competitive differentiator.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and Own the Platform Vision: Set the long-term strategic direction for the Ads Targeting Platform, establishing a clear and compelling vision for how audience signals, contextual signals, and data taxonomies come together to power advertiser outcomes at scale.
  2. Drive Roadmap and Strategy: Lead roadmap prioritization across a complex landscape of partner needs, technical dependencies, and business objectives — making sharp tradeoffs and building organizational alignment around a coherent, ambitious product strategy.
  3. Architect for Scale: Partner deeply with engineering and data science to make foundational decisions about signal ingestion, normalization, taxonomy design, and data storage — ensuring the platform is built to scale with the business and adapt to a rapidly evolving targeting landscape.
  4. Elevate the Advertiser Sales Cycle: Bring authoritative knowledge of how enterprise advertisers and agencies plan, buy, and measure media. Ensure the platform anticipates and supports the full sales cycle, from early forecasting and media planning through campaign activation and optimization, and that sales teams are equipped to position our targeting capabilities with confidence.
  5. Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Operate as a senior leader across sales, ad operations, GTM, data engineering, and partner teams. Drive alignment on priorities, resolve competing demands, and champion the platform's roadmap at the executive level.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of Product Management experience
  • significant tenure owning ad tech platforms at scale, including targeting infrastructure, signal management, or audience data platforms
  • proven track record of setting product vision and delivering against it in complex, multi-stakeholder environments with high organizational visibility
  • Expert-level understanding of the advertising ecosystem, including DSP platforms, programmatic buying, audience and contextual targeting, CTV advertising, and how enterprise advertisers and agencies approach media planning and investment
  • Deep experience with data taxonomies, signal classification, and audience data infrastructure — with strong opinions about how targeting data should be structured to serve both technical and commercial needs
  • Demonstrated ability to make foundational architectural decisions in partnership with engineering and data science, with fluency in ad serving systems, SSPs, DSPs, APIs, and integration frameworks
  • Strong UX leadership experience, with a track record of delivering interfaces and workflows that make sophisticated data accessible and actionable for sales, media planning, and operations teams
  • Executive-level communication skills and the ability to build alignment across engineering, sales, GTM, legal, and data teams in a fast-moving environment
  • Familiarity with advertising data governance, privacy regulations, and the evolving global landscape of targeting compliance
  • A bias for impact and a track record of shipping, comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving clarity where none exists

What the JD emphasized

  • targeting infrastructure
  • audience data platforms
  • ad tech platforms
  • targeting signals
  • data taxonomies
  • targeting data
  • advertising data governance
  • targeting compliance