Product Manager, Tracking Solutions

We’ve been leading the charge in the affiliate industry since 1998, establishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. As CJ (formerly Commission Junction), we specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth. Our industry-leading solutions serve over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, we leverage savvy data capabilities, cutting-edge tech, and strategic expertise to facilitate genuine connections between brands and consumers.

About the role

The data and identity layer beneath CJ’s commerce media network enables measurement and attribution, evolving rapidly as commerce surfaces expand and AI integrates into every part of the shopping journey. As a Product Manager for Tracking Solutions, you’ll own our publisher-focused tracking solutions and help shape CJ’s identity and measurement solutions, which resolve consumer signals into durable, privacy-compliant identity across devices and commerce surfaces. You’ll partner with product leadership on market assessments and research to determine future investments.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in Agoura Hills or Santa Barbara, CA; Needham, MA; or Chicago. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Own publisher-focused tracking: Take end-to-end ownership of CJ’s 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 CJ’s identity strategy and the solutions that resolve consumer signals into durable, privacy-compliant identity across devices and commerce surfaces. Shape CJ’s approach as browser privacy controls, consumer privacy regulation, and cross-device, cross-platform shopping journeys evolve.
• Partner on assessments and research: Work alongside product leadership on market assessments and discovery that determine 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. Support complex deals, go-to-market planning, technical documentation, and translate deep technical topics for non-technical audiences.
• Coordinate across the platform: Manage dependencies with other product domains and engineering teams to keep scope accurate and timelines aligned.

Qualifications

• 3+ 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 challenging.
• A track record of autonomous product decisions: You’ve framed ambiguous problems, weighed tradeoffs, and chosen a direction—not just executed roadmaps defined by others.
• Technical fluency: You understand how web and mobile tracking works and are comfortable with data pipelines, APIs, and architecture to partner credibly with engineers and make informed decisions.
• Strong discovery instincts: You validate problems with real users and evidence before building and can distinguish signal from noise.
• Analytical judgment: You turn data and ambiguity into clear priorities and can defend why one thing matters more than another.
• Excellent communication: You can explain complex technical topics to executives, clients, and sales teams in both writing and conversation.
• AI fluency: You use AI tools across the product lifecycle (discovery, design, synthesis of feedback, and solution development) to improve both velocity and quality.
• Comfort with distributed work: You collaborate effectively with remote teams and individuals.

Nice to Have

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and 401K matching.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible time off without accrual requirements.
• Generous number of paid holidays.
• Company-sponsored team-building events.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Annual recognition awards.
• Hybrid work arrangements for optimal work-life balance.
• Parental bonding leave.
• Backup care options for children and elders.
• Employee discount program.
• International SOS program for global support.
• Business Resource Groups for employees to connect over shared interests and cultivate an engaging, inclusive environment.

Pay

Compensation range: USD $88,540.00 - USD $135,632.00/Annually. This range reflects the pay the Company believes it will offer for this position at the time of posting. Compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, and experience, along with the requirements of the position.