Staff Product Manager, Activation

Zigsaw

Staff Product Manager managing activation strategies for Pinterest and tvScientific. Leading product roadmaps and collaborating with teams for digital advertising solutions.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $164,695 - $339,078 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and execute the product strategy for a significant portion of our Activation suite, establishing the vision both internally and externally.
Collaborate with various engineering teams, specifically those focused on campaign management and creative development, to architect and deliver a market-leading suite of capabilities.
Develop services designed for operational efficiency and scale by considering the entire advertiser and campaign lifecycle.
Partner with Legal, Security, and Data teams to ensure adherence to CCPA, GDPR, and global privacy regulations.
Document detailed product requirements, data specifications, and user stories to guide Engineering and Infrastructure teams on high-impact features that align with the tvScientific strategy.
Establish and monitor key performance indicators such as feature adoption and revenue influenced to inform feature development, refinement, and new initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of ten years' experience in digital advertising product management.
Extensive experience collaborating with both internal and external technical Engineering teams to develop and deploy public services infrastructure.
Demonstrated expertise in activation workflows, schemas, and architecture within large-scale advertising platforms.
Possesses a robust analytical mindset and proficiency in working with substantial datasets.
Technical acumen spanning APIs, data pipelines, and software applications.
Exceptional communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into tangible business value.
A strong foundational understanding of ad technology, with preference given to candidates possessing Connected TV experience.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Flexibility to do your best work

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Hard Skills & Tools

digital advertising product managementactivation workflowsschemasarchitectureAPIsdata pipelinessoftware applicationsdata specificationsuser storieskey performance indicators

Soft Skills

analytical mindsetcommunication skillscollaborationtranslating technical conceptsoperational efficiencystrategic visionmonitoring performancepartnering with teamsdocumenting requirementsfeature development