Senior Product Manager for Optimization

Sharethrough is the largest & most sophisticated platform for in-feed, native monetization. Built for the new paradigm of modern content marketing, Sharethrough is a mobile-first, content-driven platform for advertisers to engage users with quality content, integrated natively to each site it lives on + for publishers to monetize with premium ads while maintaining a high quality user experience.

We are looking for a highly analytical and data oriented senior product manager to lead the data science and optimization team for our industry-leading platform for native monetization, Sharethrough for Publishers (SFP). We defined native advertising and we lead the space - help us cement our lead in the publisher software space.

• As part of Sharethrough for Publishers (SFP) and the Sharethrough Exchange (STX), you’ll build products that help our publishers optimize revenue
• Help define how optimization and data science efforts operate at Sharethrough
• You will build and own the product roadmap for optimization
• Define and build the reporting and controls publishers have over optimization
• Help differentiate Sharethrough optimization with monetary and quality gains
• Provide publishers unique insights based on Sharethrough’s position and technologies such as Content Quality Score (CQS) to give them control over types and quality of demand
• Define, track and improve upon key business and product success metrics
• Develop a comprehensive strategic understanding of Sharethrough’s industry landscape (including native advertising, content marketing and analytics) and identify areas for competitive differentiation

• 6+ years of professional experience
• 4+ years experience as a product manager or a lead engineer in an analogous space (e.g. two sided auctions or similar problems with extensive data science, empirical analysis and engineering needs)
• Interest in and exposure to lean startup methodologies and processes
• Proficiency in running SQL queries is required and prior experience with data science and data processing frameworks would be a bonus
• First-hand working experience with agile/scrum software development methodologies
• Equally comfortable with seeing the “big picture” and meticulously thinking through every requirement of online development projects
• CS, engineering, economics or statistics background required