12 Nov
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Costco IT
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Hyderabad
12 Nov
Costco IT
Hyderabad
About Costco Wholesale:
Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in eleven countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience for their members.
About Costco Wholesale India:
At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing innovative solutions that improve members’ experiences and make employees’ jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale.
You'll have direct responsibility for:
- Delivering cutting-edge advertising capabilities: Building and refining tools (e.g., self-serve campaign platforms, reporting dashboards, ad serving integrations) that enhance the member experience across various digital touchpoints while driving advertiser value.
- Driving product strategy and roadmap: Partnering with Business stakeholders, Ad Sales teams, Brand Partners, and Product Management to scale our media network offerings.
- Ensuring system integrity: Driving the longevity, scalability, and quality of our ad tech systems through continuous improvement, comprehensive documentation, and meticulous profiling.
Job Duties / Essential Functions:
- Collaborates with Product Managers, Ad Sales, and technology stakeholders (Engineers, Architects) to strategically align the product backlog with the overall RMN vision and strategy.
- Strategically prioritizes product features,
balancing technical debt and platform improvements with user-facing advertising features and campaign optimization tools.
- Translates IT and Business Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)—such as growing ad revenue, increasing campaign reach, or improving closed-loop attribution—into actionable sprint goals.
- Creates user stories with clear acceptance criteria and metrics that establish the criteria for delivery readiness, keeping ad tech complexities (like latency, targeting logic, and reporting accuracy) in mind.
- Facilitates standard Scrum ceremonies (Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives) tailored to the fast-paced delivery needs of an expanding retail media team.
- Leads and is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the product backlog.
- Drives cross-team collaboration to align on dependencies, especially when integrating with core Costco eCommerce systems, data clean rooms, or external DSPs/SSPs.
Preferred Experience & Qualifications:
- AdTech / RMN Background: Proven experience working within Retail Media Networks, digital advertising, or eCommerce monetization environments.
- Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with industry-standard advertising concepts, metrics, and pricing models (e.g., CPM, CPC, ROAS, CTR, attribution modeling).Technical Integration: Experience building products that integrate with ad servers, Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs), Supply-Side Platforms (SSPs), or customer data platforms (CDPs).
- Member-Centric Mindset: Ability to balance the needs of Costco members (maintaining a high-quality, relevant UX) with the goals of our brand advertisers (reach and return on investment).
📌 Product Owner - Scrum-30733] (Hyderabad)
🏢 Costco IT
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