Position Summary

As part of the Ads Product & Engineering organization at Samsung Ads, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the products and platforms that support and drive the hyper growth of the ads business and achieve our multi-billion-dollar annual revenue goals. You will partner with stakeholders to identify, ideate, and build solutions that solve our user’s pain points and drive business value. You are an autonomous, self-starter that can lead, inspire, and resolve ambiguity across many stakeholders and competing interests. You are organized, thorough, and detailed being a trusted partner to engineers to build and release features that users love. You are comfortable in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment and can interface with teams spread across the globe.The Product Strategy & Planning role will help own and drive the strategic agenda for the company across a broad portfolio of ad products, spanning Connected TV, mobile, gaming, and native TV advertising. This role will be responsible for a variety of different tasks that are central to the Ads P&E organization, including organizational planning, budget oversight, long-term strategic planning, annual product planning, product portfolio governance, and business and organizational KPI monitoring and governance. This role will work with a number of key partner teams within and outside of Ads P&E in executing against these areas, including Product Management, Product Operations, Finance, BD, and Samsung HQ.

Role and Responsibilities:

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Key Responsibilities and Expectations

• Create and maintain a compelling vision for product strategy across the portfolio of Samsung Ads product areas, considering mid-to-long term time horizons
• Evaluation of key market opportunities, competitive assessment, and industry trending through various modeling and analytical techniques
• Partnerships and M&A evaluation for key strategic gap areas as defined within mid-to-long term strategic vision
• Organizational planning and oversight, including benchmarking, talent evaluation, and long-term organizational planning in alignment to strategy and financial planning
• Ad-hoc strategic projects as needed in partnership with key stakeholders
• Define goals and measurable success metrics
• Be the subject matter expert within and across product areas, knowledgeable across strategic, technical and business aspects
• Make clear, concise trade-off decisions when competing priorities arise
• Communicate the strategy, plans and progress to stakeholders across a variety of teams and audiences
• Foster a culture of trust, openness, collaboration and inclusiveness

Competencies and Skills:

• Navigate a large, fast-paced, and multicultural organization
• Ability to organize and structure information and analysis into a clear and coherent narrative
• Comfort operating within a constantly changing industry
• Ability to evangelize and advocate for ideas and initiatives in a highly impactful and influential manner across a diverse group of stakeholders at various levels of the organization
• Understanding of business impact and drivers for products and features
• Manage high number of stakeholders and competing interests
• Technologically literate and able to be subject matter expert on your product
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills appropriate to audience and content
• Understanding of ad tech ecosystem or equivalency in adjacent area, ability to understand complex relationships across and between component areas

Technical Proficiencies(languages, tools, systems, etc.)

• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent product management and planning tools
• Basic statistical analysis and revenue forecasting/modeling competency

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications(education, certificates, special training, etc.) and Experience(years & background)

• Minimum 12 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 10 years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 7 years experience
• 5+ combined years in strategy, product, program or project management
• 2+ years of experience related to advertising technology
• Deep understanding of CPM/CPI/CPA/ROAS advertising products
• Experience with long-term business planning and strategy in a comparable industry/area
• Deep understanding of user retention, LTV, and ROI
• Knowledge of Ad tech architecture systems a plus (DSP, SSP, ad serving, etc.)
• Track record of delivering successful and significant software products
• Passion for building disruptive products in fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• 3+ year(s) of experience working at an advertising technology company preferred
• 1+ year(s) of management consulting experience preferred
• Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) preferred
  Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Los Angeles & is expected to be between $205,000-245,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.

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