Global Product Solutions and Operations Manager, Search Ads Vertical

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$128K/yr – $290K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive TikTok Search Ads growth by owning regional market strategy and cross-functional alignment with PM/Engineering.

  • Lead market assessment and define GTM for Search Ads across regions.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in digital advertising and proven product feedback with sales and regional teams.
  • Standout: Experience shaping go-to-market strategy and owning growth targets by vertical and region.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and consolidate market assessment, quantitative analysis and qualitative feedback, represent your responsible vertical across all regions internally with PM and Engineering teams, and define the go-to-market and product growth strategy for TikTok's ever-evolving Search Ads product.
  • Partner closely with regional counterparts, sales teams, and other key stakeholders, to deeply understand pain points, form business requirements, and prioritize solutions to influence the direction of product development.
  • This individual must demonstrate a strong understanding of the broader advertising ecosystem as it pertains to Search Ads and the competitive landscape to develop strategic positioning and provide product feedback.
  • You will be instrumental in setting and owning the product growth target by vertical by region and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy.
  • Support alpha and beta programs for our Search Ads solutions and new features.
  • Communicate the value proposition of new products to vertical stakeholders and ensure that effective collateral and packages are created.
  • Support sales pitching, account deep dive, workshop and T2T for large clients under your responsible verticals.
  • Drive product adoption and usage rates by supporting key market strategy and effective product support.
  • Build an understanding of the most nascent TikTok Search Ads solutions and leverage these products to achieve customer goals.

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or above.
  • 5+ years of experience within the digital advertising industry across search, marketplace, social, display, direct response, and/or ad networks with a keen understanding of Search Ads.
  • Experience partnering with product teams to identify and bring to market solutions for sellers.
  • Strong knowledge of sales and marketing processes.
  • Strong knowledge of the competitive landscape of Search Ads
  • Experience using Search Ads products from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc.
  • Knowledge of advertiser needs for organic search and best practices

Preferred

  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive results, developing and executing against global launch plans to bring products to market
  • A commercial mindset with experience building business cases from market research and analysis
  • Experience in global roles.
  • Product marketing experience in web & mobile advertising and paid search, and successfully contributing at both strategic and tactical levels.
  • Strong knowledge across key areas of monetization products including ads delivery, keyword bidding, search algo, targeting, privacy, brand safety, and suitability.
  • Experience in influencing product management decisions.

Benefits

  • Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others.
  • Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).