Saatchi & Saatchi

Regional Product Lead

Saatchi & Saatchi$168K — $269K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience, including 3+ years in a senior or lead role
  • Expertise in marketing technology and creative production
  • Proficiency in navigating global matrix organizations
  • Experience in regional product adaptations and rollouts
  • Strong business acumen with a client-centric focus
  • In-depth knowledge of digital content workflows
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior executives
  • Experience in Agile/Scrum environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead product initiatives for the US region
  • Align global product strategies with regional market needs
  • Contribute regional insights to global product roadmap
  • Facilitate product adoption and maximize value in the US market
  • Communicate product updates and outcomes to stakeholders
  • Oversee execution of product initiatives while addressing delivery challenges
  • Mentor regional product teams and establish delivery best practices

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability insurance and 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education
  • Flexible time off policies
  • Support for family forming assistance
  • Robust inclusion and diversity initiatives
Full Job Description
Overview

Publicis Production delivers next-generation creative production, combining craft, data, and technology to produce content at scale for the world's leading brands.

We are seeking a Regional Product Lead (US) to drive product strategy and execution across the US market, ensuring alignment between global product objectives and regional business needs. This role serves as the primary link between global product teams and US stakeholders, translating market requirements into product priorities and outcomes.

This role will ensure that global product initiatives are effectively adapted, prioritised, and delivered in line with US client needs, market dynamics, and operational realities. You will work closely with regional leadership, client teams, and cross-functional partners to drive adoption, maximise value, and influence the evolution of our global platform roadmap.

This is a high-impact leadership role, combining strategic alignment, stakeholder management, and hands-on product guidance across multiple product areas.

Responsibilities

Regional Product Leadership
  • Act as the primary product lead for the US region
  • Ensure alignment between global product strategy and US market needs
  • Provide regional input into global product roadmap and prioritisation decisions
  • Champion product vision, adoption, and value realisation within the US market


Market & Client Alignment
  • Partner closely with US client teams, business leads, and operations to understand regional needs
  • Identify market-specific requirements, gaps, and opportunities
  • Translate regional insights into actionable inputs for global product strategy
  • Support key client conversations as the product authority for the region


Product Delivery Oversight
  • Oversee the execution of product initiatives in the US, ensuring alignment with global priorities
  • Guide product managers and cross-functional teams on prioritisation, trade-offs, and delivery approach
  • Ensure effective coordination across engineering, design, QA, and operations teams
  • Monitor progress, mitigate risks, and unblock delivery challenges


Stakeholder Management & Influence
  • Serve as the main product point of contact for US leadership
  • Communicate product updates, roadmaps, and outcomes to senior stakeholders and clients
  • Drive alignment across product, technology, creative, and business teams
  • Influence decision-making at both regional and global levels


Adoption, Performance & Optimisation
  • Drive product adoption and rollout success across US markets
  • Define and monitor KPIs related to adoption, efficiency, and output quality
  • Gather feedback from users and stakeholders to continuously improve product relevance and impact
  • Identify opportunities to optimise workflows and increase efficiency


Team Enablement & Governance
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to regional product managers (where applicable)
  • Establish best practices for product delivery, discovery, and stakeholder engagement
  • Ensure regional teams operate in alignment with global product governance and standards


MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff
  • Oversees the daily workflow of the team
  • Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
  • Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy


LOCATION & COMMITMENTS
  • Full-time role, currently hybrid status
  • In-person/in-office minimum of 4 days per week
  • Travel may be required to deliver on client and production needs

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in product management, with at least 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
  • Strong experience in marketing technology, creative production, or platform-based products
  • Proven ability to operate in a global matrix organisation and influence without direct authority
  • Experience managing regional or market-specific product adaptation and rollouts
  • Strong commercial acumen and understanding of client-facing environments
  • Deep understanding of digital content workflows (creation, localisation, distribution)
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, particularly with senior leadership
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with distributed teams
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution oversight
  • Strong user empathy, particularly for marketers, creative teams, and operations stakeholders


PHYSICAL DEMANDS
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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Compensation Range: USD $168,150.00 - USD $269,217.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/3/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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