Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Product Manager, Search & Social

Saatchi & Saatchi$88K — $141K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6+ years in product management or related data-driven advertising role.
  • Hands-on knowledge of search and social advertising and data management.
  • Strong understanding of bidding mechanics and platform-specific rules.
  • Experience with engineering teams on data products and ETL pipelines.
  • Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Tableau.
  • Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical groups.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the PAS roadmap for search and social media measurement and insights.
  • Assess needs from agency teams to prioritize impactful features.
  • Support the evolution of the platform with marketplace integrations and automated reporting.
  • Act as Product Owner for search and social media services.
  • Translate marketplace mechanics into user stories and technical requirements.
  • Define QA methodologies and prevent errors in product execution.
  • Collaborate with internal teams for solution delivery and validation.

Benefits

  • Medical coverage, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Disability insurance and 401K plan options.
  • Parental and family care leave support.
  • Tuition reimbursement for education enhancement.
  • Flexible time off to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Technical Product Manager for Search and Social Advertising is a core member of the PMX PAS Product organization. This role bridges search and social media expertise, data/technology understanding, and product execution discipline to advance PAS' cross-channel analytics, reporting, and optimization capabilities.

You will be responsible for owning and advancing PAS capabilities that support search and social media activation, measurement, and optimization across channels and platforms such as Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Search Ads 360, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Snap. Working closely with Engineering, Data Science, Enablement, Marketplace, and Search + Social Activation teams, you will translate real-world trading and measurement needs into scalable, high-quality product solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who brings hands-on search and social media advertising experience and wants to shape enterprise-level advertising products used by agencies and clients at scale.

The ideal candidate is a hybrid between part product manager, part ad-tech SME, part data-literate problem solver.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy Roadmap
  • Contribute to PAS roadmap across search and social media measurement (SEM, Youtube, social media and more), benchmarks, quality/brand safety insights, marketplace integrations, and manual workflow automations.
  • Assess needs from agency activation teams, PMX Partnerships, and Analytics to prioritize features based on impact, feasibility, and user value.
  • Support long-term platform evolution including marketplace integrations, improved data quality, and automated reporting expansions.

Requirement Definition, Technical Execution, s Backlog Ownership
  • Act as day-to-day Product Owner and SME (Subject Matter Experts) for one or more PAS development pods for search and social media advertising services and deliverables.
  • Translate search and social media marketplace mechanics and product requirements into clear user stories, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical dependencies.
  • Groom to refine and define stories and tasks that can be transformed into agile tickets and tasks/sub-tasks.
  • Bridge Product and Engineering on signal ingestion, business logic integration, taxonomy alignment, platform consistency and UX/UI.
  • Discover, identify and define QA methodologies, data backfill/reprocessing, rollback, disaster recovery, observability C monitoring
  • Discover, identify and prevent/prepare for errors and failures (known and unknown/assumed)
  • Work with internal technical, support and resource teams to enable PAS to deliver solutions. Collaborate closely with internal Datalake teams.
  • Partner with Engineering on:
    • Data pipeline readiness
    • API integrations (search platforms, social media platforms, analytics vendors, marketplace partners)
    • Validation and QA for search and social media datasets
    • Troubleshooting discrepancies, mapping issues, and freshness problems
  • Define requirements for multiple reports and features
  • Maintain a clean, prioritized backlog and ensure sprint readiness with Engineering.


Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work closely with search + social media and PAS Enablement and other internal teams to gather feedback and validate solutions.
  • Work with PAS Enablement to support GTM and adoption through training materials, documentation, sample analyses, playbooks, and FAQs.
  • Partner with external ad-tech vendors (analytics, measurement partners) as needed.

Search and Social Media Advertising Expertise
  • Serve as the internal SME on search and social media advertising mechanics involving platforms/resources such as Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Search Ads 360, Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Snap, measurement partners, audience targeting partners.
  • Use this expertise to guide product decisions and validate analytical outputs.

Qualifications

Required Skills s Experience
  • 4-6+ years in product management, ad tech, marketing technology, search marketing advertising, social media advertising, or a related data-driven advertising role.
  • Hands-on knowledge of search and social advertising , data management- engineering, reporting, campaign performance optimization.
  • Strong understanding of bidding mechanics, auction logic, and platform-specific bidding processes and rules
  • Experience working with engineering teams on data or platform products (APIs, ETL pipelines, cloud technologies).
  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Tableau, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical groups.
  • Ability to translate business needs into structured product requirements and clear deliverables.


Nice-to-Have
  • Experience with programmatic advertising (display and video)
  • Experience with data QA, mapping, and troubleshooting within programmatic datasets.
  • Understanding of identity, audience targeting, or cookie-less strategies.
  • Experience with cross-channel analytics or MMM/MTA inputs.

Additional information

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.

Compensation Range: USD $88,540.00 - USD $141,687.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. 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 9/1/2026.

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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