Lead Product Manager

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

Job Summary

We are hiring a Lead Product Manager to lead strategy and execution for next-generation products in the measurement space. This role is responsible for incubating high-impact products at the intersection of audience data, contextual signals, identity, and measurement. You will guide cross-functional teams to discover, validate, build, and launch differentiated solutions for Retail media Networks.

Roles and responsibilities

Product Strategy & Innovation

• Define the multi-year product strategy for Nielsen products in the measurement ecosystem.

• Identify whitespace and monetization opportunities across products like N1 Ads, Outcomes, Ad Intel, N1C etc.

• Partner with other Nielsen product teams to productize unique data assets. 

Customer Discovery & Market Fit

• Lead structured customer discovery with agency, brand, publishers and platform partners.

• Validate product-market fit with alpha/beta programs and signal-based experimentation.

• Represent the voice of the market in prioritization and roadmap decisions.

Execution Leadership

• Focus on rapid incubation, validation, and scaling.

• Collaborate with engineering, data science, UX, commercial, and external partners to deliver exceptional products.

• Set clear OKRs and drive outcome-based execution from MVP to scaled deployment.

Go-to-Market & Partner Strategy

• Partner with GTM, partnerships, and commercial teams to design pricing, packaging, and positioning strategies.

• Engage with strategic partners (e.g., DSPs, SSPs, clean room platforms, ID providers) to expand reach and adoption.

Qualifications

• 15 years in product management

• A good understanding of the advertising ecosystem, performance optimization, and privacy-safe activation.

• Track record of launching 0-to-1 products and scaling innovation.

• Strong analytical and technical fluency — comfortable working with APIs, data graphs, and measurement frameworks.

• Skilled at stakeholder management and cross-functional influence in matrixed organizations.

• Strategic thinker with bias for action, experimentation, and customer empathy.

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