Senior Product Manager, Advertising

About VSCO

VSCO (pronounced vis–co) is a platform that equips photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration, and connection.

Our mission is to nurture creativity so you can make it. We empower photographers to connect with other creatives and businesses with our suite of creative tools that spans from mobile to desktop and across our global community.

We are looking for people who are driven and demonstrate initiative in taking our company mission to the next level. Employees here have the opportunity to make a big impact, and believe that when we build together, we achieve stronger outcomes than we could alone.

We’re proud to foster diverse perspectives within VSCO as we continue to build an inclusive and innovative culture.

VSCOnaut Traits:

• Modest Overachiever: You exemplify a growth-mindset and seek feedback as fuel for growth. You are driven to excel in service of the whole, reaching beyond your immediate path.
• Winner’s Mindset: Beyond an intrinsic motivation to succeed, you have the grit and determination critical to preserve in spite of obstacles. You persist with purpose, balancing ambition with empathy and optimism.
• Ownership with Impact: You show up and stay in it, driving progress over perfection. You don’t wait to be told, you take initiative in ways that lift others and build lasting impact.
• Force Multiplier: You have deep skills and know how to scale knowledge to make our team better. You are a team catalyst and create momentum through collaboration.
• Rigorous Focus on Outcomes: You keep the bar high and embrace the future. You prioritize what matters most for our mission, leading with clarity, discipline, and care.

Our values and high performance traits are critical pillars to our team culture and shape the way we hire. Read more about what you can expect when working at VSCO on our Careers Page.

About The Role

VSCO is building its advertising business from the ground up. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Advertising to help define and execute the product roadmap across both programmatic and direct monetization. This person will partner closely with sales, engineering, marketing, operations, and leadership to grow revenue while protecting the creative integrity of the VSCO experience.

You’ll be responsible for building the infrastructure that unlocks monetization — including addressability, brand safety, viewability, and measurement — while developing scalable, user-aligned ad units. You will help ensure VSCO is accessible to buyers via both open and private marketplaces, and that our ad experience stands out for both our users and advertising partners.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, a deep understanding and liking of advertising technology, and a proven track record of delivering impact in fast-paced environments.

The Day to Day

• Driving the growth and evolution of VSCO's advertising product from requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and learning.
• Developing, enhancing, and managing our advertising products -- you will manage and evolve the roadmap, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and performance data, turn insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risk.
• Conducting competitive analysis and customer research to understand the emerging trends in the advertising industry and segment needs that help identify new opportunities, inform reach objectives, and help get the rest of the team on board.
• Building collaborative and trusted relationships with key partners by determining and driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating the product roadmap.