Product Manager - Ad Experiences & Interactive Advertising

<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>The Ads Product team is responsible for monetizing Roku's platform through innovative advertising solutions across the Roku TV experience, including its premiere streaming service, The Roku Channel, on both Roku devices and off-platform environments. Collectively, these products reach millions of users daily, creating valuable advertising inventory and engagement opportunities throughout the entire Roku ecosystem. </p> <p>We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of next-generation Ad Experiences and Interactive Advertising solutions that help marketers and advertisers drive visually appealing, high-impact sponsorships on the platform. The ideal candidate will pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution, serving as a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with product and commercial teams at Roku and with external strategic partner organizations. </p> <p>For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $176,163 - $233,750 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> <ul> <li>Product strategy and opportunity assessment: Conduct rigorous market analysis and user research to identify high-growth monetization opportunities; build robust business cases that balance short-term revenue goals with long-term ecosystem health </li> <li>Strategic roadmap ownership: Define and execute a multi-quarter roadmap for ad innovation products, ensuring alignment with Roku's overarching platform strategy and the evolving needs of the programmatic and direct-sales markets </li> <li>High-fidelity documentation: Author comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and technical specifications; translate complex business needs into actionable engineering tasks to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery </li> <li>Agile innovation: Partner with the UX team for rapid prototyping, A/B testing, and iterative design methodologies to validate ad formats and minimize "time to insight" by testing hypotheses in live environments </li> <li>Operational excellence: Drive feature prioritization and process improvements, maintaining a relentless focus on key KPIs such as Ad Fill Rate, CPM, User Engagement, and Churn impact </li> <li>Engineering partnership: Serve as the "voice of the customer" for the engineering team; provide deep business context to technical leads to foster creative problem-solving and architectural scalability </li> <li>Stakeholder orchestration: Lead cross-functional teams—including Sales, Marketing, Data Science, Finance, and Legal—to navigate the complexitie ... (truncated, view full listing at source)