17 hrs ago
Senior Product Manager, Custom Algorithms
Cognitiv
New York City, NY (Hybrid)Full time$175K/yr – $210K/yr
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Senior Product Manager, Custom Algorithms
New York City, NY (Hybrid)
$175K/yr – $210K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time
Posted 17 hrs ago
Job Summary
Own end-to-end product ownership for a technical ML offering, translating model performance into business outcomes and driving advertiser adoption and revenue through a cross-functional roadmap.
- Own the advertiser launch process and roadmap
- Translate model behavior into commercial impact for clients and sales
- Drive data-driven hypothesis formation and performance reviews
Job Description
Requirements
- Deep ML & AI Literacy. You have real depth in machine learning. You reason fluently about training data, features, evaluation metrics, and retraining, enough to challenge a data scientist's assumptions and be taken seriously doing it. You don't need to build the models. You do need to understand why one is underperforming.
- Commercial ML Track Record. You've owned ML products where the output was money, not a metric. Recommendations, pricing, risk, fraud, search ranking, marketplace matching. High-volume inference, noisy feedback, and a real commercial consequence when the model is wrong.
- Technical Translator. You translate model behavior into commercial language. You can explain to an advertiser why their conversion volume isn't enough to train on, and to a sales lead what "good" looks like before the deal is signed. This is the highest-leverage skill in the role.
- Analytically Self-Sufficient. You're analytically self-sufficient. You pull and interrogate performance data yourself. Given an underperforming campaign, you arrive with a hypothesis, not a request for someone else to look into it.
- Accountable Product Owner. You've owned a technical product end to end. Discovery through ship, with the tradeoff calls made on incomplete information. You're the accountable owner, not a coordinator.
- Master Communicator. You synthesize complex algorithmic systems into compelling narratives that align internal executives and instil confidence in external clients.
- Proven Track Record. 5+ years in Product Management, or in data science / ML engineering with direct product ownership
Preferred
- Programmatic advertising experience, including bidding and auction mechanics, campaign KPIs, and attribution
- Causal and experimental rigor. You can design a holdout, reason about selection effects, and tell whether a model is creating outcomes or just finding people who would have converted anyway
- A hands-on modeling background, or you still write SQL and Python
- Experience turning a bespoke, specialist-delivered offering into something repeatable
- Familiarity with signal loss and privacy, including first-party data onboarding, clean rooms, and identity
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision plan for US employees & Extended Health Benefits for Canadian employees
- 12 weeks paid parental leave + 4 weeks WFH
- Unlimited PTO + Work-From-Anywhere August
- Career development with clear advancement paths
- Equity for all employees
- Hybrid work model & daily team lunch
- Health & wellness stipend + cell phone reimbursement
- 401(k) & RRSP with employer match
- Parking (CA, WA, Vancouver offices) & pre-tax commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
Cognitiv
4.4 Glassdoor
Cognitiv is the leading advanced performance partner, powered by deep learning. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology and data science since 2015 to more accurately predict consumer behavior and understand nuance, Cognitiv enables brands to connect with their customers in more precise, relevant, impactful moments at scale. Cognitiv’s Deep Learning Advertising Platform provides marketers with unprecedented flexibility, activating as a Dynamic Deal run through the DSP of your choice, as a managed service DSP, or through its industry-first ContextGPT product. Cognitiv is on a mission to bring intelligence to advertising.
Salaries
Posted range
$175K/yr – $210K/yr
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Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
6 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
1.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1
People
Founders / CEO
HR / Recruitment
Marketing Leadership
Justine Frostad
Chief Marketing Officer
At the company for 6 years 10 months
Aileen Tobin
Associate Director, Product Marketing
At the company for 1 year
Veerprit Belford
Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
At the company for 1 year 1 month
Margot Dayton
Director, Content & Brand
At the company for 5 years 1 month
Funding
Total Funding
$5M
Last Raise
$450K
Convertible Note, 7 years ago
Funding History
- Mar 2019Convertible Note • $450K
- Mar 2018Seed
- Dec 2017Convertible Note • $1.7M
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
12.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.4%
Direct
48%
Referral
7%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1.2%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~170