Product Manager, Samba TV
Data Clean Rooms
$130-180k
Data & measurement for smarts TVs
Open for applications
Data & measurement for smarts TVs
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-180k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create data at the heart of TV, powering a more scientific approach to advertising and a better viewing experience for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5+ years of product management experience in ad tech, data platforms, or privacy-focused data infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with data clean room platforms and privacy-enhancing technologies, and how they're being used across the advertising ecosystem
- Strong understanding of the modern data stack—cloud data warehouses, identity resolution, first-party data activation, and measurement methodologies
- Experience shipping complex data products that required collaboration across engineering, legal, and commercial stakeholders
- Ability to distill technically dense concepts—MPC, differential privacy, query sandboxing—into clear client-facing value propositions and product specs
- Track record of executing in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the market and the technology are both still evolving
- Hustler mentality: you build conviction quickly, move fast, and know how to bring skeptics along
What the job involves
- Data clean rooms are redefining how the industry transacts on data
- As signal loss accelerates and privacy regulation tightens, clean rooms have emerged as the primary vehicle for brands to connect their first-party data with Samba's unparalleled TV viewership and web intelligence—without either party exposing raw data
- You'll ensure Samba's clean room products, and the applications built with the clean room, are the most capable, accessible, and trusted in the market
- Own the end-to-end product roadmap for Samba's data clean room capabilities, including partner integrations, query frameworks, and privacy controls
- Define requirements for secure data collaboration workflows—from data ingestion and matching to privacy-safe query execution and results delivery
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, legal/data governance, sales, client success, and your product colleagues to prioritize clean room capabilities that drive new revenue and deepen client partnerships
- Build and maintain integrations with leading clean room platforms including AWS Clean Rooms, DataBricks, Snowflake Data Clean Rooms, Google Ads Data Hub, InfoSum, and Habu
- Translate complex privacy-enhancing technologies—differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, federated learning—into practical product capabilities that clients can actually use
- Partner with product colleagues, sales, and solutions teams to develop repeatable clean room use cases around insights, audience discovery, reach and frequency measurement, campaign attribution, and competitive conquesting
- Stay ahead of regulatory and industry shifts, including evolving frameworks around data residency, consent management, and privacy-safe collaboration standards
- Define clear success metrics for clean room adoption, query volume, match rates, and client satisfaction—and hold the team accountable to them
Our take
Samba TV is improving the TV viewing experience by employing analytics to better personalize adverts and recommendations. With a scientific and algorithmic approach to how smart TVs work, the company enables TV businesses to better capture and serve consumers - an offering which has attracted the likes of Disney.
In recent years, Samba TV has focused on making artificial intelligence and machine learning central to its offerings, in part through the acquisition of Disruptel. This has enabled heightened content recognition and non-intrusive ad unit development, both of which enable it to deliver more value.
Moving forwards, Samba continues to partner and integrate with a wide range of companies to expand its product offering and market reach. And is 2022 expansion into Australia has put the company on the path to becoming a global force to be reckoned with.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2018
$7.5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2017
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $45.7m
Company benefits
- Health Coverage: We have several choices of medical, dental, and vision plans with a range of coverage levels and costs, including a 100% employer-covered plan.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks: Our wellness programs are designed to help you maintain or move toward a healthy lifestyle through mindful meditations, gym access, and other assistance when you need it!
- Company Equity Plan: We believe in shared success. We want our employees to not just work for us, but to truly be part of our growth story.
- Volunteer Days: We're committed to making a positive impact, both in and outside the workplace!
- Flexible Time Off: We encourage a healthy work-life balance which empowers our teams to recharge when needed and thrive both personally and professionally.
- Team & Company Events: We love to hang out together! We provide many opportunities to get to know each other whether virtually or in person.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashwin Navin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded i/o ventures and BitTorrent, serving there as President. Experience as an Analyst for Epoch Partners, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
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