Lead product director retail media Job at Epsilon in Chicago

Full job description

Important: This is a hybrid-role working at least 2 days per week in one of our local offices.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Epsilon is looking for a Senior Director of Product Management with a passion to build innovative products that transform the shopping experience while leading our Onsite Retail Media team. As the lead of Product Management onsite team, you will focus on Retail Media product delivery by partnering closely with our engineering teams to ensure high quality and timely product delivery. All while collaborating with the Sales, Marketing and Operations teams to ensure successful product development and execution from concept to launch and throughout post launch optimization. In this pivotal role you will inspire your high performing team to drive the vision to define product strategy and roadmaps while overseeing the development and optimization of the onsite product suite.

What You’ll Achieve

• Impact: You will drive strategic vision, development, and execution of the company’s onsite retail media product portfolio for sponsored product ads (SPA), native ads, display/video, API, campaign management, and reporting. While overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and optimization, ensuring that the products meet the evolving needs of the advertisers, retailers, and consumers. Growing clients while maximizing revenue and profitability.
• Career Growth: If successful, the Senior Director, Project Management’s next step would be Vice President where you will gain exposure to additional clients, teams, orgs, and more while making an impact across the retail business and within your team by supporting and leading teammates and direct reports growth and training. Thus, extending your reach and knowledge inside the company.

Who You Are

• What you’ll bring with you:
• • Proven Leadership: Extensive Experience leading product teams in the retail media or ad tech space.
  • Passion for innovation: Through a drive to create cutting-edge products that push the boundaries of retail media.
  • Data-Driven Mindset: Strong analytical skills and experience using data to inform product decisions.
  • Product Expertise: Deep understanding of onsite retail media products, technologies, and trends.
  • 10+ years of product management onsite experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
  • Combine a unique blend of business and technical savvy, the ability to translate market requirements into a product vision, and be able to work side by side with engineering leadership to realize that vision.
  • Strategy: Define and articulate the overarching onsite retail media product strategy, aligning it with the companies broader business objectives and market opportunities.
  • Development: Conduct market research and user testing to validate product concepts and gather feedback for continuous improvement while analyzing and monitoring product performance metrics.
  • Collaboration: Communicate effectively with senior leadership, providing regular updates on product strategy, performance, and the roadmap.
  • Market Intelligence: Conduct market research, gather customer feedback, and identify opportunities for differentiation while staying abreast of the industry trends, competitive landscape and emerging technologies.
• Why you might stand out from other talent:
• • Proven track record of successfully launching and scaling retail media products – with a particular focus on onsite.
  • Strong knowledge of analytical and problem-solving skills for data driven decisions.
  • Deep understanding of the retail media landscape, including ad formats, target capabilities, and measurement solutions.
  • Results driven, strategic thinker who can collaborate and be adaptable within our customer-centric, data driven team.

Additional Information

When You Join Us, We’ll Create Something EPIC Together
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice.

Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements.

Epsilon has a core set of 5 values that define our culture and guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We are seeking candidates that align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work:

• Act with integrity: We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing.
• Work together to win together: We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential.
• Innovate with purpose: We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes.
• Respect all voices: We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging.
• Empower with accountability: We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals.

Because You Matter

As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you, your family and your finances first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following:

• Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 14 paid holidays.
• Time to Recover: Paid sick time.
• Family Well-Being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance.
• Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling.

Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms.

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.