Senior Product Manager, Ad Formats

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

San Francisco, CA

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there's one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Building on Discord's gaming-centric platform, Quests offer an engaging way for advertisers to connect to our community with rewarded advertising. As we grow our advertising platform, our Ad Formats team is at the forefront of creating new formats, placements, and quest functionality to enable more ways that users can interact with our offering. The most successful formats are ones that surprise and delight our users, continuing the shift in consumer behavior to trust the ads we put in front of them.

As an Ad Formats PM you will be responsible for the consumer experience of how users interact with our advertising product. Additionally, you will help build out ad formats across our measurement, targeting, and ad interface solutions internally. You will have to use your knowledge of gaming, advertising, and industry experience to build new ad experiences at Discord.

What you’ll be doing

Guide the product philosophy, vision, and roadmap for our ad formats so that they are engaging for users and performant for our advertising partners

Lead cross-functional execution with engineering, data science, design, marketing, partnerships, legal, policy to build, test, and launch revenue products that are beneficial for our advertisers & users

Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels

Together with other product teams, evolve our suite of ad formats for businesses across game studios, developers, and advertisers

Build out a roadmap of experiments and growth levers for our ad formats at Discord

Empathize and relate to our users, especially those who are the most active on Discord

What you should have

Strong product sense for the ad formats space with deep understanding of how users engage with advertising

Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, excited about finding simple solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them

7+ years experience shipping great software, driving prioritization, making trade-off decisions, and setting timelines

An understanding of AI offerings within the tech world and how to use them effectively

Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers

Track record of driving impact via rapid experimentation towards a metric goal for an advertising tech product

Strong analytical ability to quickly organize and leverage data (including writing SQL) to make informed product decisions with cross-functional stakeholders

Bonus points

Experience working with ad formats and advertising platforms from other companies

Experience working with rewarded ads formats and the gaming advertising vertical

BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience

Benefits And Perks

Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)

Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends

19+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO, use-what-you-need sick days and volunteer time off

Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)

Generous stipends for headphones, your remote work setup, and lunch on a daily basis (while we’re all remote)

Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)

A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups

Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees