Senior Product Manager (Curation) Permutive - New York City, NY, US

Senior Product Manager (Curation)

Permutive empowers publishers and advertisers to address all of their desired audiences, in-the-moment, whilst protecting privacy.

Permutive is the data collaboration platform that powers the advertising ecosystem. We exist to build an advertising ecosystem that respects and adapts to consumers' choices around their privacy, and in doing so unlocks enormous uplifts in scale and outcomes for publishers and advertisers alike.

Trusted by 60% of Enterprise Media Companies across the US, EMEA, and LATAM, we work with leaders such as News Corp, Warner Bros Discovery, Hearst, Conde Nast, dmg media, BuzzFeed, and The Guardian. Our technology enables them to drive >$1B in advertising spend across hundreds of millions of users without compromising user privacy.

Permutive works with many of the largest Advertisers, enabling them to collaborate with Publishers to triple their audience reach and drive a doubling in incremental sales, including with advertisers such as Sky, Dentsu and Apple.

We leverage patented edge technology, AI and cloud collaboration to safely process data where it is, and our platform combines privacy-safe DMP, data clean room, and curation capabilities to unlock unmatched scale and precision for publishers, advertisers, agencies, and retail media networks.

At Permutive, You'll Help Our Customers:

• Achieve Better Outcomes: Leverage our unique position in the ad tech ecosystem to access broader audiences and improve outcomes.
• Boost Sales Significantly: Capitalize on 100% addressability to connect with the 70% of audiences beyond traditional cookies.
• Transform Collaboration Efficiency: Move from lengthy processes to seamless collaboration in minutes.

Join us as a key player in shaping the future of Permutive, backed by leading investors like Softbank and EQT Ventures and recognised as a YCombinator Top 150 company.

Curation is one of the most significant revenue opportunities in the open internet right now. With third-party cookies deprecated, DSPs are signal-starved and over-indexed on a cookied minority of the web. Advertisers are struggling to find their target audience at scale. Sell-side curation solves this problem: publishers, via Permutive, surface their first-party cohorts and those get packaged up into deal IDs transacted via SSP curation seats and lets buyers reach addressable audiences at scale across the premium open web.

Permutive has built real traction in this space with significant revenue growth: curation seats across Index Exchange, PubMatic, Xandr Curate, Google Curated Deals and OpenX; a growing in-house Curation Demand team (sales, account management, operations); and a publisher network of 100+ premium properties contributing the signal quality that makes our curated audiences competitive.

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Manager to own the Curation product roadmap. This role will involve:

• Driving the transition from manual curation operations to self-serve deal creation and management
• Partnering with the Curation Demand team to understand what product constraints limit audience scale and media spend and remove them in partnership with the engineers
• Building reporting infrastructure to support internal and external customers

Success will be measured against 3 key metrics:

• Time from brief to campaign live
• Campaign rebooking rate
• Media spend

What you'll be doing?

• Working in partnership with our Director of Agentic Workflows to establish the vision for the curation product and executing a roadmap against this vision
• Balancing tactical quick wins to unlock media spend with more strategic improvements to our curation product
• Owning SSP integration requirements
• Designing and delivering the curation reporting surface: revenue reports, deal-level analytics, and other dashboards to help track progress and gaps
• Producing clear, well-scoped product requirements for Engineering
• Working with curation ops/customer team to map current manual workflows and define the product investment required to automate them
• Engaging directly with buyers to understand what's standing in the way of campaign performance, translating those insights into product priorities

What you'll need?

• Deep, hands-on knowledge of SSP curation marketplace products: you can hold a detailed conversation about deal setup, fee mechanics and win rate diagnostics with an SSP partnerships team.
• Strong understanding of Prebid.js architecture, specifically RTD (Real-Time Data) modules
• Understanding of curation fee mechanics: how management fees and data fees are applied pre-auction, how they flow through to publisher revenue, and how take rates compare across SSP partners
• Familiarity with supply path optimisation (SPO): how buyers think about direct paths and the trade-offs between OMP, PMP and curated supply
• 3–6 years of product management, sales engineering (or similar) experience, with a meaningful portion in programmatic advertising, publisher ad tech, or SSP/DSP product
• Track record of owning a technically complex product end-to-end: from discovery and spec through to delivery, adoption measurement and iteration

We would be particularly excited if you have:

• Direct experience in a curation-specific role at a company such as Audigent, Multilocal or a major SSP (Index Exchange Marketplaces, PubMatic Activate, Xandr Curate, Google Curated Deals, OpenX)
• Involvement in industry working groups (IAB Tech Lab, Prebid.org ) is a nice to have.

We take a structured, objective approach to salary-setting, which is based on marketing information, our compensation strategy, and your experience and capability assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements, we pay a base salary between $195,000 - $230,000 (with a 20 % bonus).

Permutive Benefits

• In this together: As a full-time employee, you'll become a shareholder with stock options, sharing in our collective success.
• Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.
• Your Time, Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life, whether it's hitting the gym, meditating, or handling family needs.
• Upgraded Workspace: A $450 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.
• Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days + public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.
• Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.
• Mental Health Matters: We prioritize your well-being with free access to TalkSpace, our mental health partner.
• Healthy & Happy: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage keeps you and your family feeling your best. Choose a plan with 100% coverage for yourself, with options to cover your dependents at 75%.

Work Your Way

Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best, whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said, none of us work alone; we are part of a team.

To foster collaboration and connection, teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the company's Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each year's event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together, reconnect with colleagues, and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Permutive, we're taking a thoughtful, intersectional, long-term approach to diversity, equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish, and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.

We're committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin,