Principal Product Manager, Ad Tech

Posted:
4/21/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Lehi, Utah, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Job Description:

Job Description:

Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to use your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies in the US to the top of the list.

Pattern is the premier partner for global ecommerce acceleration and is headquartered in Utah's Silicon Slopes tech hub—with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Valued at $2 billion, Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies in North America by Deloitte and one of best-led companies in America by Inc. More than 100 global brands—like Nestle, Sylvania, Kong, Panasonic, Sorel, and Pandora—rely on Pattern's global ecommerce acceleration platform to scale their business around the world. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of America's Most Loved Workplaces®.

Your primary task will be to build tools that maximize the long-term success of our advertising efforts through our flagship product, Predict. We spend tens of millions of dollars on advertising platforms around the globe, and tech is critical to our success. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including designers, engineers, and business leaders to deliver exceptional solutions. 

This is a full-time role that will work a hybrid schedule from our office in Lehi, UT.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a day in the life of a Principal Product Manager?

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to grasp business objectives and customer pain points, prioritizing product initiatives according to anticipated business impact

  • Work closely with engineering leads to understand resource tradeoffs and technical feasibility of different product implementations

  • Create, monitor and thoroughly groom product tickets to ensure clear direction and forward momentum for engineering teams

  • Demo product solutions internally and externally to validate efficacy and feature completeness while spurring excitement for Predict’s technical prowess

  • Collaborate with product managers and designers on the team, focusing on user research and customer discovery, translating feedback into seamless and delightful user journeys

  • Benchmark Predict’s product solutions against competitors, identifying key gaps in functionality and opportunities for first-to-market innovations

What will I need to thrive in this role?

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher

  • Domain expertise in the advertising side of ecommerce

  • Proven product management experience in a similarly senior role

  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with designers and engineering teams to translate ideas into product output

  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

  • Data driven focus on KPI’s to help make critical operational decisions with high growth products

  • Exceptional written communication skills, especially the ability to document product needs within a clear set of requirements

  • Experience presenting technical solutions to C-level executives and/or brand marketing leaders

  • Strong understanding of user research methodologies and enterprise client expectations

  • Ability to work flexibly across an global product and engineering org

What will make me stand out in this role?

  • Relevant advanced degree

  • Experience with advertising tech platforms such as Pacvue, Perpetua, Quartile, Sellozo, Skai, or Teikametrics 

  • Familiarity with generative AI (ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc), cloud architecture, and data science principles

Sounds great! What’s the company culture?

We are looking for individuals who are:

  • Game Changers- A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.

  • Data Fanatics- A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.

  • Partner Obsessed- An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.

  • Team of Doers- Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.

What is the hiring process?

  • Initial phone interview with Pattern’s Talent Acquisition team

  • Video interview with Product team

  • Onsite interview with key stakeholders from Product, Engineering, and Business teams

  • Professional reference checks

  • Executive review

  • Offer

How can I stand out as an applicant?

  • Be prepared to talk about professional accomplishments with specific data to quantify examples

  • Be ready to talk about how you can add value and be the best addition to the team

  • Focus on mentioning how you would be partner obsessed at Pattern

  • Be prepared to talk about any side projects related to data and analytics

Why should I work at Pattern?

Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry! We are a company full of talented people that evolves quickly and often. We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community. We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives, so we offer awesome benefits that include

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Paid Holidays

  • Onsite Fitness Center

  • Company Paid Life Insurance

  • Casual Dress Code

  • Competitive Pay

  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

  • 401(k)

Pattern provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Pattern is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.