Principal PM - Optimization And Growth, Linkedin Audience Network (Lan)

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.

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Job Description

This role can be located in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions (LMS) business has experienced accelerated growth, topping $5B in annual revenue. We are looking for an entrepreneurial individual to join us as a Principal Product Manager to lead the data and optimization products for LinkedIn Audience Network (LAN) and drive continued success of the business. This includes ownership over efforts across data and campaign optimization on trusted 3rd party publishers, LAN ads ranking & automation and performance insights. This covers all platforms including Connected TV, Desktop and Mobile and across all Formats such as Video, Display, Native.

LMS products impact how businesses and brands sell, buy, advertise, and connect globally. By using the most cutting-edge AI/ML technologies in a privacy safe way, this role is responsible for building a highly performant and innovative ads marketplace to drive the best ROI for global B2B marketers and deliver the best ad experience to LinkedIn members with our deep and constantly upgrading sense of trust, privacy, and fairness.

As a PPM you will be responsible for owning the long-term strategy and features roadmap to drive impactful product launches and also as industry expert, you will also be responsible for growing product managers in the organization. You will be part of a world class product management team and define the vision and strategy for what Data and Optimization at scale within the rapidly evolving industry landscape.

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Responsibilities:

• Drive and evolve the Data and Optimization product lines for LAN that focus on optimizing marketplace efficiency for better customer ROI and scale.

• Keep a comprehensive understanding of the ad tech industry, and advertiser & member expectations for marketing ROI, ad experience, and privacy requirements.

• Create and articulate a compelling vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution plans for your overall product domain. Get alignment from cross-functional team members and executives for your vision and strategy

• Communicate product values to users and stakeholders, representing the team with the company's senior leadership.

• Mentor and develop a team of product managers to innovate and execute product initiatives across the company.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in a product management or equivalent role.

• Bachelor's degree in a technology related field or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Built and launched enterprise and/or ad tech products at scale using AI/ML technologies, with a demonstrated ability to develop an ambitious product strategy and successfully execute on the vision.

• Keen understanding of the video ads ecosystem with a focus on Connected TV.

• Top notch collaborator, who can influence others, rally disparate teams to align to and execute on a shared vision, build a positive team culture and sense of inclusion, and communicate effectively with all audience

• An insatiable sense of curiosity, a bias for action, and a strong desire to make an impact.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with and understand technical subjects and emerging technologies and their relevance to the marketplace.

• Exceptional ability to manage and lead across highly cross-functional teams. Experience working with a set of highly skilled engineers, data scientists, and designers.

Suggested Skills:

• Programmatic Advertising

• Video Advertising

• Connected TV

• AI/ML

• Optimization

• Product Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $173,000 to $280,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Additional Information

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Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

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In your email, please include the following: (1) confirm you have a disability; (2) identify the disability-related limitation that needs to be accommodated, and (3) if known, describe the specific accommodation requested for the disability-related limitation. A response to your request may take up to three business days.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice