Product Manager, Tracking Solutions

Welcome to Our World
Weve been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day oneestablishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. Were 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. CJs industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3800 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.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in Agoura Hills or Santa Barbara CA; or Needham MA or Chicago.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

The data and identity layer beneath CJs commerce media network is what makes measurement and attribution possible and its evolving rapidly as we see an expansion of commerce surfaces and AI introduced into every part of the shopping journey. As a Product Manager for Tracking Solutions youll own our publisher-focused tracking solutions and help shape CJs evolving identity and measurement solutions which resolve consumer signals into durable privacy-compliant identity across devices and commerce surfaces. Youll partner with product leadership on the market assessments and research that determine where we invest next.

Do these things interest you You will:

• Own publisher-focused tracking. Take end-to-end ownership of CJs publisher-facing tracking solutions: the systems that capture how publishers drive consumer engagement across shopping platforms. Decide what to build and why grounded in evidence and shape the roadmap for your domain.
• Help shape identity solutions. Contribute to CJs identity strategy and the solutions that resolve consumer signals into durable privacy-compliant identity across devices and commerce surfaces. Shape CJs approach as browser privacy controls consumer privacy regulation and cross-device cross-platform shopping journeys continue to evolve.
• Partner on assessments and research. Work alongside product leadership on the market assessments and discovery that shape where CJ invests next.
• Make the call. Weigh tradeoffs and prioritize under real constraints (competing requests limited capacity imperfect data) and own the decisions that result.
• Partner closely with engineering. Work day-to-day with a dedicated engineering team to ship learn and iterate using Agile practices to deliver value in every release and feed client learnings back into the product.
• Define success and measure it. Set clear success criteria and the metrics that prove whether a solution is working and use what you learn to adjust course.
• Be the domain expert. Serve as the go-to authority on your solutions for leadership sales marketing and clients. Youll support complex deals go-to-market planning and technical documentation and translate deep technical topics for non-technical audiences.
• Coordinate across the platform. Manage dependencies with other product domains and engineering teams so scope stays accurate and timelines stay aligned.

• 3 plus years in product management ideally on technical or platform products such as data systems measurement identity or APIs.
• A strong grasp of the ecommerce landscape. You understand how consumers shop behave and are tracked across different commerce surfaces (web mobile web in-app and marketplaces) and why measuring that behavior is hard.
• A track record of autonomous product decisions. Youve framed ambiguous problems weighed the tradeoffs and chosen a direction not only executed roadmaps defined by someone else.
• Technical fluency. You understand how web and mobile tracking works and youre comfortable enough with data pipelines APIs and architecture to partner credibly with engineers and make informed calls.
• Strong discovery instincts. You validate problems with real users and evidence before building and you can tell signal from noise.
• Analytical judgment. You turn data and ambiguity into clear priorities and you can defend why one thing matters more than another.
• Excellent communication. You can take a complex technical topic to executives clients and sales in both writing and conversation and be understood.
• AI fluency. You use AI tools across the product lifecycle (discovery design synthesis of feedback and solution development) to raise both velocity and quality.
• Comfort with distributed work. You collaborate effectively with remote teams and individuals.

• Background in performance marketing ad tech or commerce media.
• Familiarity with identity resolution attribution or privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Exposure to data architecture data streaming cloud-based architecture or API development.
• SaaS or platform product experience.
• Hands-on Agile delivery experience with tools like Atlassian JIRA

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in Agoura Hills or Santa Barbara CA; or Needham MA or Chicago.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

CJ is the leader in Performance Marketing. We take pride in our innovative technology comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools training and career development opportunities all to provide modern solutions strategies and support to deliver high quality results for our clients. We work in an enthusiastic collaborative team setting that values outstanding performance.

Were a community of creative and passionate problem solvers who go the distance to tackle the tough questions think creatively and drive resourceful growth for our clientsand ourselves. We foster and embody an inclusive and collaborative culture where diverse perspectives are sought relationships are valued and people feel accepted with a sense of belonging in expressing themselves authentically. We pride ourselves in having a workplace environment that values both work and play.

Why Our Workplace Stands Out
Apart from offering competitive salaries 401K matching wellness programs and comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage we provide:
Flexible time off without the hassle of accrual
A generous number of paid holidays
Company-sponsored team-building events
An Employee Referral Program
Annual recognition awards
Hybrid work arrangements for optimal work-life balance
Parental bonding leave
Backup care options for children and elders
An employee discount program
International SOS program for global support
Business Resource Groups where employees connect over shared interests to cultivate an engaging inclusive environment

and those are just a few of our great perks! Come join us and see what makes our company a great place to work.

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