VP of Product Management

Samsung Electronics•Mountain View, CA

23h•$300,000 - $350,000

About The Position

Samsung is seeking a VP of Product for Samsung Ads, its connected TV and cross-screen advertising platform. The platform uses Samsung first-party Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data and reaches consumers across Samsung Smart TVs, mobile devices, and Samsung TV Plus. The role owns the end-to-end publisher and supply platform, including its front end, back end, decision engine, reporting, onboarding, and publisher experience across Samsung’s premium inventory ecosystem. The VP will set the platform vision and multi-year roadmap, guide product execution, and balance publisher value, revenue growth, scalability, and operational reliability across CTV, mobile, and web inventory. The role partners closely with Engineering and cross-functional teams on platform architecture, data strategy, privacy, and responsible AI adoption. It also owns product KPIs, represents the portfolio with executives and partners, and leads and develops a multi-layered team of product leaders and managers.

Requirements

15+ years of Product Management experience, with significant depth in ad tech platforms, particularly supply-side, publisher-facing, or CTV/streaming advertising products.
Proven experience as a platform owner in a commerce media, retail media, or streaming media advertising business, including building a platform from the ground up or developing intimate knowledge of an existing scaled platform.
Demonstrated experience leading platform or infrastructure-adjacent solutions at enterprise scale in complex, high-throughput, real-time, or decisioning-driven environments.
Demonstrated success partnering closely with Engineering on technically sophisticated products, including programmatic infrastructure such as RTB, header bidding, and VAST/VPAID pipelines.
Proven people-management experience focused on talent development, including managing people managers and leading multi-layered organizations.
Track record of developing product visions that result in quantifiable business growth and measurable publisher or advertiser success.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to turn complex data, including ACR, viewership, and attribution signals, into actionable product insights.
Excellent executive communication and stakeholder influence skills, including the ability to align cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders in a matrixed global organization.

Nice To Haves

Background in connected TV (CTV), streaming media, or device-level advertising platforms.
Experience integrating identity graphs, clean room technologies, or privacy-preserving data partnerships into a publisher or supply-side platform.
Experience driving responsible AI-enabled product strategies, particularly in yield optimization, content targeting, or audience modeling.
Technical background in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end platform vision and multi-year roadmap for the Samsung Ads publisher and supply platform.
Set strategy for the publisher experience, including the platform front end and back end, adapters, core decisioning, monetization, reporting and billing, and publisher onboarding.
Define the long-term product vision for supply-side and publisher-facing products, translating publisher and content partner needs into a cohesive roadmap.
Balance publisher value, revenue growth, platform scalability, and operational reliability across CTV, mobile, and web inventory.
Turn publisher needs and operational workflows into product priorities and outcomes that support platform scale and business growth targets.
Drive an API-first product approach that supports extensibility, partner integrations, and internal reuse.
Partner with Engineering to align product requirements with architectural and operational constraints at global scale.
Work with cross-functional partners on data strategy and privacy, integrating Samsung identity graph and ACR data assets responsibly.
Champion responsible, AI-first product strategies to improve decision quality, automation, and speed to market.
Identify and prioritize AI-driven opportunities across publisher experiences, yield optimization, experimentation, and analytics.
Establish product-level guardrails for AI use in performance- and correctness-critical settings, including real-time ad decisioning.
Own key performance indicators and drive end-to-end execution of publisher product suite features.
Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Operations.
Communicate product strategies and tradeoffs to executives, customers, and non-technical stakeholders; present strategic updates to executive leadership.
Represent the product portfolio in executive discussions, publisher and content partner engagements, and strategic partnerships.
Monitor CTV and ad tech developments and identify opportunities for Samsung Ads.
Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of senior product leaders and managers.
Hire, develop, and retain Product Managers while fostering excellence, ownership, innovation, clarity, accountability, and customer-centric decision making.
Lead distributed teams across time zones with alignment and accountability.