Product Manager, Platform Services

Product Manager, Platform Services

Welcome to Our World. We've been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day oneestablishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. We're known for maintaining one of the largest, most reliable partnership platforms with impeccable, personalized service. Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction) stands as the most trusted name in performance marketing. We specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth. CJ's industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, our savvy data capabilities, cutting-edge tech, and strategic expertise facilitate genuine connections, allowing brands to reach consumers wherever they are.

A Quick Peek at Affiliate Marketing. Think back to your last online purchase. Did an influencer tip you off about a great product and offer a discount? Or perhaps you relied on a trusted review site to make your decision? Whatever path you took, affiliate publishers likely played a role by influencing, informing, or helping you find the best deal. CJ connects brands with these publishers, creating valuable resources for shoppers like you.

Overview

The Product Manager, Platform Services at Commission Junction (CJ) is responsible for shaping and executing the long-term strategy for the shared capabilities and experiences that enable CJ to operate as a secure, scalable, consistent, high-performing, and increasingly AI-enabled platform.

This role owns the horizontal product foundation that spans the CJ experience and enables individual product domains to build and scale effectively. The Product Manager partners closely with domain product teams, engineering, UX, API Platform, security, and other cross-functional stakeholders to establish shared capabilities, standards, and frameworks that improve consistency, accelerate product development, and create a cohesive experience across the CJ platform.

Responsibilities

The Product Manager will lead the definition, prioritization, and execution of CJ's Platform Services strategy and roadmap across the following core pillars:

• Identity, Access & Organization
• Shared Platform Experience
• Design System & Experience Standards
• Globalization & Localization
• Platform Configuration & Communications
• Shared Platform Integrations
• Platform Performance & Experience Health
• AI Experience & Agent/MCP Ecosystem
• Cross-Platform Strategy & Governance

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have significant experience defining and delivering shared platform capabilities within a complex product organization. Key qualifications include:

• 10+ years of product management experience, preferably within SaaS, enterprise platforms, commerce, advertising technology, or other complex technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing platform product strategy across multiple product domains and engineering teams.
• Strong technical foundation, with an understanding of identity and access management, authorization, platform architecture, shared services, integrations, and modern web application architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for reusable platform capabilities and drive their adoption across multiple product teams.
• Strong understanding of emerging AI product patterns, including AI agents and interoperability approaches such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), and the ability to translate evolving technologies into pragmatic product and platform strategies.
• Experience working closely with UX and engineering to deliver consistent, scalable, accessible, and high-performing customer experiences.
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to drive alignment and resolve ambiguous ownership across teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience using data and product metrics to prioritize investments and measure platform success.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and modern product management practices.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field is preferred.

Position Impact. This role plays a critical part in ensuring CJ operates as a unified platform. By defining and evolving the shared capabilities, experiences, and standards used across product domains, the Product Manager will help reduce duplication, improve customer experience, strengthen platform scalability and performance, and enable product teams to deliver new capabilities more efficiently.

The role will also help shape CJ's evolution toward an AI-enabled platform by defining the shared experience, ecosystem strategy, and governance through which domain-specific agents and MCPs can be discovered, trusted, and used consistently across CJ.