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Senior Director, Product Management (ID Activation)

Salary$125k – $295k
LocationUSA, New York, United States
Work modehybrid
Typefull-time
DepartmentTechnology & Innovation
Company size10,000+ people
First seen2d ago
Last seen5h ago
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world’s most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We’re committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Why We’re Hiring
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Director, Product Management – ID Activation to lead the strategy and development of identity-driven audience activation capabilities across the advertising ecosystem.
You will own the end-to-end product vision for audience onboarding, identity resolution, data syndication, and partner activation workflows. Your work will help make audience delivery more scalable, interoperable, privacy-conscious, and measurable across major media platforms.
This is an opportunity to shape products at the intersection of AdTech, identity, data, and media while leading a team and influencing partners across WPP.
What You’ll Be Doing
Define Product Strategy and Roadmaps
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Set the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for ID Activation capabilities.
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Identify opportunities to expand activation through new identity providers, destinations, channels, and strategic integrations.
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Build business cases and prioritize investments based on customer demand, revenue potential, technical feasibility, and strategic value.
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Translate market, partner, and client needs into clear product requirements and measurable outcomes.
Own the Audience Activation Lifecycle
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Own the full activation lifecycle, from audience ingestion and onboarding through identity resolution, enrichment, qualification, governance, packaging, syndication, delivery, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Establish scalable operating frameworks that support consistent audience activation across products and partners.
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Improve automation, reliability, and operational efficiency across activation workflows.
Enable Multi-Channel Activation
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Develop solutions that support activation across programmatic, social, connected TV, and emerging media channels.
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Define product requirements for multiple identifier types, including email-based identifiers, mobile advertising IDs, RampID, UID2, hashed personally identifiable information, and platform-specific identifiers.
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Partner with technical teams to support scalable, API-driven activation across cloud-based data platforms.
Lead Partner Integrations and Ecosystem Management
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Lead product management for integrations with media platforms, identity providers, DSPs, SSPs, data exchanges, and clean-room partners.
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Define integration requirements and frameworks for platforms such as Google Customer Match, Meta Custom Audiences, Amazon Ads, The Trade Desk, Magnite, Experian, and other strategic partners.
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Manage partner roadmaps and relationships to maintain interoperability, service quality, and competitive differentiation.
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Work with Engineering to design and maintain scalable APIs and data-exchange mechanisms.
Shape Identity and Data Strategy
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Develop strategies that improve addressability while supporting responsible, privacy-conscious data use.
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Evaluate emerging identity frameworks, identity graphs, graph providers, and privacy-enhancing technologies.
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Define requirements for deterministic and probabilistic identity-resolution workflows.
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Partner with Privacy, Legal, and Security teams to support compliance with applicable privacy regulations and internal standards.
Drive Measurement and Execution
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Define success measures for activation products, such as adoption, time to activate, match quality, delivery reliability, partner performance, and client impact.
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Establish product-management and execution processes that support predictable delivery of roadmap commitments.
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Use performance insights, operational feedback, and customer needs to continuously improve the product experience.
Lead and Develop Teams
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Lead and develop a team of product managers responsible for identity and audience activation capabilities.
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Serve as a primary liaison across Product, Engineering, Data Operations, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Commercial, Privacy, Legal, and Security teams.
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Act as a subject-matter expert and advocate for identity and audience activation across the organization.
Who You’ll Be Working With
You’ll work closely with Product and Engineering leaders, Data Operations, Partnerships, Product Marketing, Commercial teams, Privacy, Legal, and Security. You will also collaborate with external identity providers, media platforms, DSPs, SSPs, data exchanges, clean-room partners, agencies, advertisers, publishers, and other technology partners.
What You’ll Need
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Significant product-management experience in AdTech, martech, identity, data platforms, audience activation, or a related field; typically 8+ years or equivalent depth of experience.
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Experience leading product managers and complex cross-functional initiatives; typically 3+ years in a people-leadership or product-leadership capacity.
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Strong understanding of DSPs, SSPs, clean rooms, identity ecosystems, audience activation workflows, customer-match frameworks, and programmatic advertising infrastructure.
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Experience managing external technology partnerships and complex third-party integrations.
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Technical fluency in APIs, data-exchange platforms, identity-resolution systems, and cloud-based data platforms.
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Demonstrated ability to balance long-term strategy with hands-on execution, operational delivery, and prioritization.
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Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to create alignment across technical and commercial teams.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience working with identity providers or frameworks such as LiveRamp, TransUnion, Experian, Neustar, RampID, or UID2.
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Familiarity with data clean-room environments such as InfoSum, Snowflake, Habu, or similar platforms.
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Experience building audience activation products for large advertisers, agencies, publishers, or media platforms.
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Knowledge of retail media, commerce data, and advanced audience-targeting solutions.
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An MBA or advanced degree in a related field is a plus, but not required.
Who you are:
You’re open:** We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You’re optimistic:** We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You’re extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we’ll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome for more details.
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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome for more details.
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$125,000—$295,000 USD
We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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