Product Manager, Ad Tags

WHO WE ARE

Headquartered in sunny Austin, TX with a growing footprint in the heart of NYC, KERV.ai is an award-winning, boundary-pushing company that's transforming how content and commerce converge in media.

As the leader in AI-powered video analysis and monetization, our patented technology breaks video down frame by frame, making every object, product, or moment instantly interactive, measurable, and shoppable. We serve as the connective tissue between creative, commerce, and data, helping the world’s top brands and publishers turn video into a truly dynamic and rewarding experience for their audiences.

At KERV.ai, we’re not just redefining how people engage with media. We’re building the future of it. If you’re looking to work at the intersection of innovation, storytelling, and smart technology with a team that’s shaping what’s next in media, we’d love to meet you.

THE CHALLENGE AHEAD 

KERV’s ad tags sit at the center of our monetization ecosystem. They power interactive formats, dynamic rendering, data collection, delivery workflows, and integrations across SSPs, DSPs, publishers, and streaming environments. As responsibilities for tag logic, validation services, and production support have expanded, the need for a dedicated product owner has become critical to ensuring scale, quality, and operational efficiency.

As the Product Manager, Ad Tags, you will define and drive the roadmap for KERV’s tag layer including rendering tags, dynamic tag services, validation systems, and future scale oriented improvements. You will partner with engineering, ad operations, integrations, and creative technology teams to streamline workflows, reduce support burden, and strengthen tag reliability across environments.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for KERV’s ad tagging systems including rendering tags, scanning tools, validation services, and dynamic tag components
• Define requirements for improvements to tag generation, reliability, scale, performance, and cross publisher compatibility
• Partner with engineering to design scalable backend architectures that support rapid growth
• Work closely with Creative Technology and Ad Units teams to ensure tags support evolving interactive formats and metadata structures
• Collaborate with Ad Operations to streamline delivery workflows, reduce support tickets, and improve QA processes
• Align tag behavior and delivery workflows with SSP, DSP, measurement, and verification integrations
• Develop product metrics covering reliability, latency, scale, and operational efficiency
• Establish structured processes for tag testing, versioning, and validation to reduce breakage and context switching
• Stay current with industry standards including VAST, VPAID, OMID, and publisher specific requirements, while staying up to date on IAB guidelines and best practices
• With with the team to QA, support, and troubleshoot live campaigns
• Support go to market readiness with documentation, training, and sales enablement resources

WHAT YOU’LL BRING 

• 5 or more years of product management experience in ad tech or digital advertising
• Hands on experience with ad delivery systems, tag level products, or creative ad serving workflows
• Strong understanding of VAST, VPAID, clicks, scans, interactions, measurement tags, and ad serving logic
• Familiarity with DSP, SSP, ad server, and dynamic creative technologies
• Ability to translate complex system behavior into clear requirements and decisions
• Experience using data to guide prioritization, define success metrics, and optimize performance
• Strong communication skills across technical and non technical audiences
• A passion for building reliable, scalable systems that power interactive experiences

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT KERV

• We are a team of talented, kind people, driven by innovation.
• We put the human first. Whether our employee, client, partner, or community; we genuinely care about your well-being and will do whatever we can to support it.
• We are relentless in our pursuit of innovation, remaining flexible and open to change, remaining scrappy and collaborative in pursuit of common goals.
• We balance our dedication to success with the accountability to deliver, trusting our expertise, while verifying our thinking at every step.
• We advocate for the growth and success of our people and the communities in which they belong to through transparent & clear communication, championing a culture in which everyone has a voice and contributes to our success, and a socially aware approach to everything we touch.
• We aim to cultivate a work environment where each person, no matter the identities they hold, not only feels safe, seen, and heard, but also celebrated.
• We offer…
• Unlimited PTO with a healthy culture of taking time off to recharge so you can bring your best self to work
• Competitive compensation packages
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including modern support services via Bennie, such as a custom app and  healthcare concierge to support a simplified benefits experience for our staff
• Mental Health Support via Samata Health paid 100% by KERV
• 401K with company match and  100% vesting on day 1
• Unlimited referral bonuses
• Flexible working schedules with remote and hybrid opportunities 

KERV provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. KERV participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires.