Senior Director, Product Management, Video Ad Platform

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p> </p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.</p> <p>From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.</p> <p> </p></div><h3><strong>About the role</strong></h3> <p>We are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to own the end-to-end vision and evolution of Roku’s home-grown Video Ad Platform. This platform powers programmatic advertising across Roku Media and connects supply, demand, data, and ad decisioning into a unified marketplace.</p> <p>You will define how inventory is represented and managed across Roku surfaces, how external demand systems connect and transact, and how data and signals flow through the platform to enable measurement and optimization. A core responsibility of this role is ensuring interoperability across the advertising ecosystem while maintaining Roku’s ability to innovate and differentiate through its own technology stack.</p> <p>This role sits at the center of Roku’s programmatic strategy and is responsible for driving a cohesive platform vision that balances advertiser outcomes, viewer experience, and scalable monetization. This role requires deep expertise in video advertising technology and programmatic marketplace design.</p> <p>For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $382,600 - $536,250 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off. </p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></h3> <p><strong>End-to-end platform ownership </strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and drive the multi-year vision for Roku’s Video Ad Platform, spanning supply management, demand connections, ad serving, auction decisioning, and platform data signals.</li> <li>Establish platform principles that prioritize extensibility, interoperability, and measurable advertiser outcomes.</li> <li>Ensure the platform evolves as a cohesive system rather than a collection of isolated capabilities.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Supply management and publisher media</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own product strategy for supply management across Roku Media, including inventory governance, eligibility frameworks, packaging, and monetization controls.</li> <li>Define how supply enters and is represented within Roku Exchange and related marketplace surfaces.</li> <li>Partner with publisher media teams to align platform capabilities with content-level monetization strategies.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Demand connections and ecosystem interoperability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define how DSPs, SSPs, ad servers, and measurement partners integrate with Roku’s marketplace.</li> <li>Drive scalable integration patterns using industry standards while maintaining platform flexibility and differentiation.</li> <li>Own strategy for marketplace connectivity, including open exchange, private marketplace, and programmatic guaranteed frameworks.</li> </ul> <p> ... (truncated, view full listing at source)