Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Media Buying & Inventory Platform

Posted on 11/7/2025

Tatari

Tatari

201-500 employees

TV advertising platform with real-time analytics

Compensation Overview

$160k - $200k/yr

+ Equity Compensation

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid 2 in-office days per week.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Data Science
Machine Learning
Quality Assurance (QA)
Requirements
  • 5+ years of relevant product management experience in direct, programmatic or digital advertising.
  • Strong understanding of media buying workflows (campaign setup, targeting, pacing, optimization) and how buyers interact with DSPs.
  • Strong written and verbal communicator with excellent people skills to interact with various teams inside the company, clients, and vendors, including a demonstrable ability to present a case for your roadmap and initiatives to senior leadership in a clear and compelling manner that inspires action.
  • Customer-needs obsessed, black-belt user story and solution creation, passionate about solving customer problems.
  • Passionate about tools, automation, and AI-driven innovation, while staying pragmatic and execution-focused.
  • Experience and strength in partnering closely with Engineering and Design to address complex problems and varying customer needs through effective user research and product design
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and get organizational buy in and excitement for product roadmap(s).
  • Passionate about tools and automation, but practical about getting things done.
  • Bonus: an understanding of advertising media operations; Experience working with data platforms, taxonomies, or inventory/targeting models (CTV/streaming preferred); zero-to-one experience building innovative products from scratch; helped a past company evolve home-grown legacy systems into more modern and effective infrastructures.
Responsibilities
  • Understand and advocate for media buyers
  • Develop a deep understanding of how media buyers structure campaigns, target their audience, and measure outcomes.
  • Champion their requirements in all product decisions so campaigns are accurately and efficiently represented within automated direct IO execution.
  • Translate buyer workflows into platform features that improve usability, accuracy, and efficiency.
  • Inventory and Audience Targeting Data
  • Ensure the inventory and targeting data stored in the Catalog is structured for both operational execution (buying, targeting, pacing) and analytical purposes (forecasting, modeling, reporting).
  • Guarantee that Catalog data is consistently reflected across downstream systems, including campaign management, reporting, and optimization tools.
  • Partner with data science teams to maximize how Catalog data feeds predictive modeling and AI-driven recommendations.
  • Bridge business and technical teams
  • Translate complex media buyer needs into clear product requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, and design to ensure requirements are implemented accurately and at scale.
  • Act as a key connector between the commercial side of the business (media buyers, MediaOps) and the technical infrastructure teams.
  • Operational Enablement
  • Support MediaOps and other internal teams by ensuring Catalog updates are timely, accurate, and aligned with evolving business workflows.
  • Identify gaps in processes or tools and drive solutions that make operational teams more efficient and less reliant on manual effort.
  • Tooling & Documentation
  • Promote the adoption of Catalog tools that enhance data discovery, lineage, and documentation, making inventory and targeting data more accessible to both technical and business users.
  • Ensure Data Quality
  • Champion data quality initiatives to guarantee that Catalog data and business logic are accurate, validated, and reliable.
  • Work with engineering and QA teams to build guardrails and validation processes into Catalog workflows, reducing errors and ensuring long-term trust in the system.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bonus: an understanding of advertising media operations; Experience working with data platforms, taxonomies, or inventory/targeting models (CTV/streaming preferred); zero-to-one experience building innovative products from scratch; helped a past company evolve home-grown legacy systems into more modern and effective infrastructures.

Tatari provides a platform to buy, measure, and optimize TV advertising using data-driven, real-time analytics. Its system collects and analyzes campaign data to help clients choose which networks and programs to advertise on, adjust spend, and improve performance, aiming to turn TV ads into a digital-like, measurable experience. The company differentiates itself from traditional TV advertising by offering end-to-end campaign management with continuous measurement, optimization, and flexible targeting across a wide range of industries. Tatari's goal is to help clients achieve better return on investment by making TV advertising more accountable and manageable through analytics-driven insights.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2016

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Four clients aired Super Bowl LX ads on NBC and Peacock in 2026.
  • Saatva measured CTV-driven phone revenue via Invoca integration.
  • Experian and Samba TV integrations boost targeting for 200+ brands.

What critics are saying

  • Vault spin-off diverts engineering from core platform in 2025.
  • Cookie deprecation in 2026 cripples Experian and Samba integrations.
  • iSpot.tv's 30M devices outpace Samba TV's household data precision.

What makes Tatari unique

  • Tatari unifies linear and streaming TV ad buying with real-time analytics.
  • Direct broadcaster ties secure premium inventory like Super Bowl slots.
  • AI Planning Engine predicts clearance using 8+ years of data.

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Benefits

Competitive salary

Stock options

100% health insurance premium coverage

Unlimited PTO & sick days

Snacks, drinks, & catered lunches

Team building events

$1000 annual continued education benefit

$500 WFH reimbursement

$125 pre-tax monthly stipend to spend on whatever you want

Annual mental health awareness app reimbursement

FSA & commuter benefits

Monthly Company Wellness Day Off (During WFH)

Company News

MarTech Series
Feb 5th, 2026
Four Tatari clients to Air Commercials During NBC's Super Bowl LX Broadcast, Underscoring Its Role as the Go-To Partner for TV Advertising at Scale

Four Tatari clients to air commercials during NBC's Super Bowl LX broadcast, underscoring its role as the go-to partner for TV advertising at scale. February 5, 2026 3 min. read Ro, Manscaped, Tecovas, and Life360 to air commercials during NBC's Super Bowl LX broadcast. Tatari, the leading convergent TV advertising platform, announced that four of its clients, Ro, Manscaped, Tecovas, and Life360, will advertise during Super Bowl LX. Bringing four advertisers to the Super Bowl in a single year marks a new high for Tatari and reflects its growing role as the partner brands turn to when TV becomes central to their growth strategy. The Super Bowl represents the most premium, complex, and closely held inventory in television. For brands, it is not simply a media buy but a strategic moment that requires scale, access, and deep coordination across multiple partners. Increasingly, brands rely on Tatari to help them scale their TV campaigns, guiding them through a disciplined, data-driven path into TV and live sports. Rather than jumping straight into marquee moments, advertisers test into sports in smaller doses, measure performance at the spot level, and refine creative based on outcomes like cost per site visit and cost per acquisition. As campaigns prove effective, brands build confidence and impact over time. The Super Bowl represents the culmination of that process, not a departure from it. "This didn't happen overnight," said Andy Schonfeld, Chief Revenue Officer of Tatari. "Ro, Manscaped, Tecovas, and Life360 didn't wake up one day and decide to buy a Super Bowl ad. They built on TV over time, testing, learning, and scaling with intention. The Super Bowl is a natural outcome of that process, and bringing four advertisers this year reflects how often Tatari now plays that role for brands." NBC offers a limited number of streaming-only Super Bowl placements through Peacock, two of which were secured by Tatari clients this year. That inventory is transacted directly with the network and is not available through programmatic exchanges, leaving self-serve DSPs and programmatic CTV ad platforms on the sidelines. Tatari works directly with broadcasters like NBC to secure and manage these placements, leveraging long-standing relationships to help brands access premium inventory and unique sponsorships and integrations into TV show content. The four Tatari Super Bowl advertisers span categories including healthcare, CPG, apparel, and technology, demonstrating Tatari's ability to support a wide range of business models and marketing objectives. Whether brands are focused on accelerating growth, expanding awareness, or reinforcing category leadership, Tatari provides a unified platform and strategic partnership to help them scale on TV. Historically, Tatari has supported one or two Super Bowl advertisers each year, including TickPick, which ran its first-ever Super Bowl ad last year as part of a streaming-first strategy. Super Bowl 59 drew 14.5 million streaming viewers across Tubi and NFL digital properties, with Tubi alone delivering 13.6 million viewers, a new record that far exceeded projections. The results underscored the strength of the streaming commitment that Tatari helped secure: within seconds of airing, TickPick saw a sharp surge in demand, driving more than 700 website visits and 1,800 app installs in a single minute and ultimately driving close to 12,000 installs and over 8,000 website visits over the next 28 days. Bringing Ro, Manscaped, Tecovas, and Life360 to this year's Super Bowl reflects Tatari's continued growth, expanding publisher relationships, and increasing presence at the highest levels of television advertising. Looking ahead, Super Bowl 60 has the potential to continue the trend of record-setting viewership, creating even greater opportunities for this year's advertisers. And for Tatari clients, the momentum doesn't stop after the game. Leveraging its TV technology and post-game strategy, Tatari helps advertisers sustain momentum well beyond the final whistle. Through retargeting, brands can re-engage viewers who saw their Super Bowl ad with follow-up TV ads designed to drive consideration and conversion. For Fiverr, this approach allowed Tatari to build on their initial Super Bowl spot, efficiently retargeting exposed audiences with additional creative to move them further down the funnel and optimize performance in the weeks that followed. And the impact doesn't stop there. TV creates a powerful halo effect that amplifies other channels. In fact, more than half of Tatari's clients see that their TV ads boost purchase conversion rates of other marketing channels by more than 50%. Tatari's platform enables advertisers to plan, execute, and measure campaigns across linear and streaming TV from a single system, combining software with hands-on expertise. The result is a repeatable path for brands, from first TV test to the most-watched broadcast in the world.

AdExchanger
Sep 25th, 2025
How AI Helped Tatari Double Revenue Without Adding (or Losing) Staff

To underscore the point, Tatari launched AdTechTax.com to illustrate how much of each ad dollar is allocated to intermediaries.

The Tech Outlook
May 29th, 2025
Tatari Appoints Raïssa Nébié as SVP of Finance to Accelerate Strategic Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Tatari, the leading platform for buying and measuring advertising across convergent TV, today announced the appointment of Raïssa Nébié as Senior Vice President of Finance.

GlobeNewswire
Nov 28th, 2023
Theviewpoint Integrates With Freewheel, Helping Streaming Publishers Process Direct Ios With The Speed And Automation Of Programmatic

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TheViewPoint (TVP), a connected television monetization platform, today announced a newly expanded partnership with FreeWheel, a global technology platform for the television advertising industry.The two companies have partnered to introduce a new way for streaming platforms to modernize their ad sales through automation while also building a clearer demand path. Integrating with TVP Direct enables publishers working with FreeWheel to gain greater operational efficiency (which supports automation and scale), robust data security, and real-time reporting for optimization.Another key component: This partnership offers 200+ brands an opportunity to bypass exchanges when buying TV ad inventory, bridging the gap between supply and demand.“CTV publishers need technology so that they can scale, work faster, gain a granular understanding of their demand and eliminate errors,” said Daniel Elad, Chief Strategy Officer, TheViewPoint. “This integration gives sellers using TVP Direct more automation and the most pure form of supply path optimization. At the same time, we’re helping the ecosystem minimize the ad tech tax by building an end-to-end system that directly connects advertisers with premium inventory.”“At FreeWheel, we are committed to finding, creating and innovating new solutions that help buyers and sellers navigate today’s complex and quickly evolving TV ad ecosystem,” said Jon Mansell, VP, U.S. Head of Demand, FreeWheel

MarTech Cube
Oct 4th, 2023
Tatari wins AdExchanger's 2023 Most Innovative TV Adtech Award

Tatari's sister company, TheViewPoint, a Connected TV (CTV) monetization platform, was named an honorable mention in the Best Seller-Focused Technology category.

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