Braze

Lead Product Manager, Banners & Content Cards

Braze$169K — $266K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Product Management, with experience owning a product line at scale
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional teams
  • Proactive attitude with a focus on project completion and process improvement
  • Technical proficiency in client-side rendering and API design
  • Experience in building rich user experiences with designers
  • Data-driven approach for decision-making based on user adoption and usage
  • Customer-focused mindset with commercial fluency

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage the roadmap for Content Cards and Banners based on customer and market data
  • Collaborate with engineers and designers to bring the roadmap to life in a start-up environment
  • Own and drive commercial outcomes, understanding unit economics for investment decisions
  • Set and manage internal and external customer expectations, especially with enterprise accounts
  • Gain deep understanding of technology, business, and market dynamics
  • Build reliable and observable infrastructure for the products
  • Develop reusable capability across divisions to enhance product implementation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation that includes potential equity
  • Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
  • Flexible paid time off options
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans
  • Family services including fertility benefits and paid parental leave
  • Professional development via career pathing, learning platforms, and stipends
  • In-office experiences aimed at fostering community and innovation
  • Annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching to support community involvement
  • Employee Resource Groups for creating supportive communities
  • Recognized collaborative and fun culture as a Great Place to Work®
Full Job Description
WHAT YOU'LL DO

We're looking for a Lead Product Manager to lead the Banners team, which owns Braze's in-product messaging surfaces: Content Cards and Banners.

These are the channels that reach users inside the app experience rather than outside it. They're persistent, native, and always available, with no opt-in required and no deliverability tax. Content Cards is a mature, widely adopted surface. Banners is our newest channel and our fastest growing, having gone from launch to full feature parity with Content Cards in under a year, and now serving well over a billion impressions a day.

Braze operates at massive scale, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending billions of messages to end users daily. In-product surfaces are a growing share of that. The constraint on this part of the business is no longer capability. It's adoption, programmability, and making creation genuinely fast.

The goal here is to find someone who can take a portfolio that's technically deep and commercially material, and push it into its next phase. Here's what you'd focus on in your first year:
  • Drive adoption, not just delivery. The work is turning shipped capability into activated customers and sustained usage. That means better defaults, faster time to first banner, self-serve setup, and out-of-the-box integrations with platforms like Shopify
  • Make creation faster and more intelligent. Banners already supports three ways to build: drag-and-drop, raw HTML, and AI-generated. Braze is investing heavily in Operator, our AI assistant, and a big part of this role is making sure these surfaces are ones Operator can actually work with. Marketers are shifting from building things themselves to letting AI build it for them. A core part of this role is pushing that path forward: making Operator, our AI assistant, a natural and differentiated way to act on a marketer's intent
  • Make these surfaces first-class programmable products. You'd drive REST API parity, translations support, enterprise-grade access scoping, and the path to serving in-product content over a public API without an SDK dependency
  • Own hard technical product work at scale. Render latency at the 99th percentile, the SDK dependencies these surfaces sit on top of, unifying the technical foundation for these channels-in this role, product judgment and technical judgment are the same judgment
  • Set the measurement bar. You'd define what good looks like for adoption, usage, and performance, and hold the team to baselines and targets that are real

Main responsibilities:
  • Define and own the roadmap for Content Cards and Banners, pulling from customers, sales, support, usage data, and competitive signal to figure out what matters most next
  • Partner with engineers and designers to execute that roadmap in a lean, entrepreneurial start-up environment
  • Own the commercial outcomes for your area (adoption, consumption, expansion) and understand the unit economics well enough to make good investment tradeoffs
  • Establish and manage internal and external customer expectations, including with enterprise accounts and in renewal and expansion conversations
  • Deeply understand our technology, business, customers, and market
  • Build best-in-class infrastructure for your products, treating reliability, performance, and observability as product requirements rather than cleanup work
  • Partner across the division to build reusable capability instead of channel-specific implementations. Shared editors, shared design patterns, shared APIs
WHO YOU ARE
  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, including owning a product line at scale
  • Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and persuasion skills. This is a senior IC role with no direct reports and a lot of influence. You'll need to align engineering, design, our SDK team, and go-to-market without positional authority
  • A proactive, positive, can-do attitude. You drive projects to completion excellently, and you're always looking for new ways that processes and products can be improved
  • Comfortable being technical. You can reason about client-side rendering, SDK integration, API design, and caching well enough to make real tradeoffs with engineers rather than relaying them
  • You build rich user experiences and work closely with designers. These are content creation products, so the quality of the authoring experience is the product
  • Data-driven by instinct. You go to the adoption funnel and the usage data before the anecdote, and you're rigorous about baselines
  • Customer-focused and commercially fluent. You understand how your product area drives consumption and expansion, and you can hold a credible conversation with an enterprise customer about why they should adopt a new channel
  • Eagerness to learn and grow.

Bonus points:
  • Experience with in-product or embedded messaging surfaces. Inbox, feed, banner, or in-app content products
  • Experience building rich content creation flows. Drag-and-drop editors, template systems, or WYSIWYG authoring
  • Experience shipping AI features inside an existing authoring tool
  • Experience with products that depend on customer-side SDK integration, and the adoption dynamics that come with that
  • Strong technical experience and the ability to understand and discuss product architecture
  • Experience at a high-growth technology startup
  • Experience at a high-scale technology startup. We operate at the scale of billions of users

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $169,000 and $266,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $188,000 and $296,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

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WHAT WE OFFER

Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country here. More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment.

From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we've got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits such as:
  • Competitive compensation that may include equity
  • Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
  • Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
  • Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
  • A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
  • Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
  • Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
  • Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®

About Braze

Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-app, and more. The company's platform is designed to help brands create personalized and relevant messaging experiences for their customers. Braze was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Learn more about Braze
Size
1,000 employees
Market Cap
$2.4 billion
Industry
Founded
2011
NASDAQ

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