Roku

Senior Product Manager, Ads Targeting & Audience Activation

Roku$290K — $310K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of Product Management experience in ad tech, audience products, or ad data platforms, preferably from a major social platform or CTV publisher/streamer.
  • Demonstrated success in shipping audience or targeting products at scale with measurable impacts on advertiser adoption and campaign performance.
  • Strong technical knowledge in audience taxonomies, lifecycle, modeling concepts, and identity/addressability signals.
  • Experience with advertising ecosystem players including DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, and measurement partners.
  • Highly analytical, skilled at quantifying the value of signals and making data-driven decisions in complex situations.
  • Proven cross-functional execution skills with a strong aptitude for communication in ambiguous environments.
  • Platform-oriented approach to product design with a focus on extensibility and standardization.
  • Fluency in modern AI tools applicable to product development, with experience in AI/ML.

Responsibilities

  • Own the audience product surface from segment creation to activation across different buying surfaces.
  • Set strategy for audience availability to partners while managing governance and scalability.
  • Shape Roku's audience modeling strategy, linking unique signals to performance metrics.
  • Expand audience portability by integrating Roku audiences with key external activation platforms.
  • Define and productize new targeting signals, assessing their application and impact.
  • Enhance targeting setup processes for greater reliability and self-service capabilities.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure targeting products operate correctly within the ad stack.
  • Establish and track success metrics for targeting effectiveness and prioritize improvements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare options including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Global mental health and financial wellness resources available to employees.
  • Support for time off aligned with local leave laws to promote work-life balance.
  • 401(k) or pension retirement plans offered to assist with future financial security.
  • Flexible remote work policy on Fridays, allowing employees to choose work environment.
Full Job Description
About the Team

The Ads Targeting and Audience Activation team is responsible for the products that enable advertisers to reach the right viewers on Roku. We build the systems that transform Roku's rich identity, behavioral, contextual, and advertiser-provided signals into actionable audiences and targeting capabilities - activated across direct, self-serve, and programmatic buying paths. Our work sits at the heart of Roku Ads' value proposition: delivering relevant ad experiences for viewers while driving measurable outcomes for advertisers. We're a cross-functional group that partners closely with engineering, data science, sales, partnerships, and privacy/legal to ship products that scale across Roku's growing advertising ecosystem.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own Roku's targeting and audience activation surface - the products that turn Roku's identity, behavioral, contextual, and advertiser-provided signals into the audiences and contextual targets that buyers activate against. This role drives a multi-quarter product roadmap that defines how Roku audiences are built, curated, distributed, and applied across direct, self-serve, and programmatic activation paths.

This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, data science, sales, and partnerships - and is central to one of Roku Ads' most important promises: marrying relevant ad experiences for our viewers with the outcomes that matter to advertisers, across every surface they buy.

For New York Only - The estimated annual base salary for this position is between $290,000 - $310,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

What you'll be doing
  • Own the audience product surface end to end - segment creation, curation, lifecycle, discoverability, and activation across owned and external buying surfaces
  • Set the strategy for how Roku audiences are made available to advertisers and partners - including governance, ownership, and role-based access - and drive the product investments that make this scale
  • Shape Roku's modeled audience strategy - including how Roku-unique signals feed propensity and lookalike models, and how those models support both planning and in-flight performance use cases
  • Expand audience portability - drive Roku audience reach into the major external activation platforms, measure coverage and match performance, and prioritize the next set of integrations
  • Land new targeting signals - define how new behavioral, attention, and contextual signals are productized, where they show up across surfaces, and how their value gets measured
  • Drive the product investments that make targeting setup faster, more reliable, and more self-serve for both internal teams and external buyers
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure targeting products consume the right inputs and produce the right outputs across the ad stack
  • Define success metrics for targeting - coverage, latency, signal adoption, attached-revenue lift - and use them to drive prioritization and retire low-value capabilities


We're excited if you have
  • 6+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in ad tech, audience products, ad data platforms - with prior experience at a major social platform or CTV publisher/streamer, a strong plus
  • A track record of shipping audience or targeting products at scale, with measurable impact on advertiser adoption, signal coverage, or campaign performance
  • Strong technical fluency with audience taxonomies, segment lifecycle, lookalike and propensity modeling concepts, identity and addressability signals, and the data contracts that connect targeting to delivery and measurement
  • Experience working across the advertising ecosystem - DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, DMPs/CDPs, measurement, and clean room partners
  • Highly analytical - able to quantify the value of a signal, segment, or integration, spot gaps in assumptions, and make principled tradeoffs across coverage, latency, accuracy, privacy, and cost
  • Proven ability to drive cross-functional execution across engineering, data science, analytics, sales/ops, privacy/legal, and external partners, with strong communication in ambiguous and trade-off-heavy environments
  • Platform thinking - standardize patterns, avoid bespoke solutions, and design for extensibility as the targeting surface scales across owned and 3P activation paths
  • AI fluency - fluent use of modern AI tools to accelerate product work. Experience with AI, ML, and automation in product offerings
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Our Hybrid Work Approach

Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.

Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Employees are supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.

Accommodations

Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].

About Roku

Roku is an American consumer electronics company founded in 2002. The company is best known for its streaming devices that allow users to access internet-based video content on their televisions. Roku's devices are available in several models and are sold in the United States and other countries. The company also offers a streaming service called The Roku Channel that features a selection of movies and TV shows. Roku went public in 2017 and is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Learn more about Roku
Size
3,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$17.5 million
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+47.3%
Revenue
$1.7 billion
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