Senior Ad Product Manager – Thomson Reuters

Job Description

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your extensive Ad Products management experience to a world-class company that is market leading for both content and technology? We’re looking for experienced Senior Ad Product Manager to join our growing digital consumer product team at Reuters to lead our ad product vision, execution and strategy for Reuters.com and our digital consumer properties, including our mobile application.

A career as a Senior Ad Product Manager at Thomson Reuters means you’ll be able to deliver innovative solutions that enhance our customer’s experience every day and work with our colleauges on the most globally trust-worthy news site in the market. You’ll partner with colleagues globally to develop Ad Product strategies for Reuters.com, the Reuters Mobile App, and our digital news partnerships.

Reuters is the world’s leading global news agency, is a trusted provider of real-time news reporting, photography, video and information services. Our digital consumer product team is growing, and all have diverse backgrounds: from editorial, to design, technology, data analytics, and commercial. What unifies them is the desire to constantly innovate and experiment to create the best possible holistic experience for our customers.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Senior Ad Product Manager, you will:
• Own the ad product roadmap for Reuters.com, the Reuters mobile app, and our digital news partnerships, in close collaboration with your product management colleagues, our revenue operations, digital sales and business development teams.
• Drive monetization opportunities that unlock the value of our market-leading news platform, mobile application, and news partnerships to drive revenue.
• Be responsible for the advertiser experience and the user ad experience.
• Develop a deep understanding of client needs and translate these into business opportunities and product requirements.

Job Description
• Own the sales ad project roadmap from ideation to product rollout by identifying market trends, working with cross-functional teams to build new commercial opportunities, articulate their value to our sales team and clients, test, build, iterate and track progress against key KPIs
• Provide leadership to identify new ad products, enhance current ad products and communicate the importance of revenue-generating projects across the organization
• Partner cross-functionally with your Product colleagues, Sales Planning, and Media Operations to commercialize products and own ROI analysis.
• Execute solutions with the Product and Engineering teams.
• Track performance to measure success. Determine metrics of success for each product, analyze KPIs to drive decisions and action.
• Track the evolving data monetization landscape: competitors, trends, opportunities.
• Take a systematic, data-driven approach to problems and opportunities.

The Day-to-Day:
• Collaborate inter-departmentally with Sales, Sales Development, Product, Engineering, Research and Analytics to effectively communicate ad products, requirements, needs, and value.
• Lead relationships with ad tech vendors
• Participate in external and internal sales meetings and calls as the ad product expert
• Drive product initiatives ensuring timely delivery within budget and foster effective cross-functional communication and collaboration.
• Forecast weekly product revenue.
• Provide weekly updates to internal clients and monitor product performance against goals and budgets.
• Run A/B experiments to test or optimize revenue ideas, ensuring the project achieves overall goals, meets the needs of clients and our users.
• Create and prioritize a product backlog proposing new ad opportunities to sales & product, evaluating ways to monetize new product features.
• Stay abreast of industry, competitive, and consumer trends to help inform new features and functionality.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Ad Product Manager if you:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering (any) or a related field with an information technology focus
• Have 5+ years of product management experience, ideally the digital consumer media industry, including mobile applications and video product experience
• Proven experience with ad technologies and solid knowledge of the larger digital advertising ecosystem. This must include a minimum of 2 years of experience in: developing and enhancing Big Data systems and DMP technologies; supporting DSPs (demand-side platforms), SSPs (supply-side platforms); Ad Exchanges (technology platforms), Ad Servers (campaign management platforms), and Cookies (small text files exchanged between a user’s computer and a web server to identify specific users); and developing and supporting DMPs (data management platforms, including eXelate DMP/Daas platform).
• Strong planning skills; highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage and prioritize requests from multiple teams for a variety of needs

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Nine employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $125,500 – $233,100. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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