Liftoff is building a new e-commerce advertising platform, and we're looking for a Product Manager to own it from zero to one. Today the product drives app users to purchase directly on merchants' e-commerce sites. You'll take the product from its current early state through beta and on the path to general availability, partnering with a dedicated engineering team, our ML organization, and go-to-market teams to set strategy, prioritize the roadmap, and decide what's in and out of scope. This is a senior, largely individual-contributor role with real autonomy: you'll own the business case, the experimentation roadmap, and the platform's identity and attribution architecture, and you'll represent Liftoff directly with customers and partners.
ResponsibilitiesOwn the strategy and the business case- Set the product strategy, quarterly goals, and success metrics, and present progress against milestones to executive leadership and finance
- Own the unit economics that define launch readiness (success metrics, traffic quality, funnel efficiency), and make the call on when the data supports scaling, pivoting, or stopping
- Decide what stays out of scope. The possible surface area will always exceed team capacity, and disciplined scope-cutting is as important as anything you ship
- Partner with GTM, sales, and account teams to define ideal customer profiles and go-to-market strategy, select and onboard customers, and turn customer intel into roadmap decisions. Represent Liftoff in customer conversations and strategic industry partnerships
Drive performance through ML partnership- Partner with Eng leads to own the experiment roadmap, interpret A/B results, and make Go/No-Go decisions
- Diagnose full-funnel performance from ad impression through site session, add-to-cart, and purchase, and call out investigation opportunities
- Set and enforce traffic quality and creative UX standards that protect advertiser outcomes, including suppression logic and inventory quality controls
Own identity, attribution, and platform integrations- Work with Legal to define product policy around consent handling, regional privacy requirements, customer data protection, and compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Develop strategic partnership and integration opportunities to ensure robust measurement and attribution
- Defend our attribution methodology and incrementality story with sophisticated performance marketers and agencies
- Lead e-commerce platform integration work end to end: pixels, server-side event delivery, order attribution, catalog ingestion, and merchant-facing installation flows
Requirements- 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in performance advertising: DSP, retargeting platform, measurement/MMP, or ad network e-commerce products
- Hands-on depth in web and mobile identity and attribution: probabilistic matching (IP and device signals), pixels, server-to-server postbacks, and the practical constraints of browser privacy changes (ITP, fingerprinting protection) and ATT
- A track record of carrying a product from beta to GA, including at least one experience where you recommended killing or materially pivoting something based on the data
- Comfort operating in a 0-to-1 incubation environment: small, funded pilots, hands-on customer management, and shipping against explicit go/no-go criteria
- Demonstrated ML experimentation experience: you can read a confidence interval, challenge an experiment design, and make a ship/no-ship call under uncertainty
- Cross-functional leadership across engineering, ML, go-to-market, sales engineering, creative, and finance without direct authority over any of them
Preferred / What Sets You Apart- Experience with the Shopify/e-commerce ecosystem: app approval, Customer Privacy API, webhooks, catalog/product feeds, or merchant-facing tooling. Familiarity with CAPI-style server-side integrations (Meta CAPI, Google Enhanced Conversions) also counts
- Familiarity with incrementality testing, MTA, or MMM, and the attribution debates (first-click vs. last-click, demand creation vs. demand capture) that agencies and DTC marketers actually have
- Executive-level financial fluency: you can build and defend a unit economics case to a senior audience and hold your ground under scrutiny
Location:The preferred location for this role is within the Pacific Time Zone; however, this role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA
We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Travel Expectations:We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.
Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.
The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, Seattle, NYC: $230,000 - $280,000
- Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $211,000- $257,000
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $198,000- $240,000
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