You'll have direct responsibility for:
- Delivering innovative 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 attributioninto 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 rapid-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 (India)
🏢 Costco
📍 India