What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Digital Product Management position at Petco?
Want to help pets live their best lives?
We’re proud to be where the pets go and where the pet people go. If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.
Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what’s right for pets and people.
We’re proud to be "where the pets go" to find everything they need to live their best lives for more than 60 years — from their favorite meals and toys, to trusted supplies and expert support from people who get it, because we live it. We believe in the universal truths of pet parenthood — the boundless boops, missing slippers, late night zoomies and everything in between. And we’re here for it. Every tail wag, every vet visit, every step of the way. We are 29,000 strong and together we nurture the pet-human bond in more than 1,500 Petco stores across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, 250 Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. In 1999, we founded Petco Love. Together, we support thousands of local animal welfare groups nationwide and have helped find homes for approximately 7 million animals through in-store adoption events.
Director, Marketing Technology & Loyalty
Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in office)
Reports to: VP, Digital Product Management
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Director of Marketing Technology & Loyalty to lead the evolution of Petco’s customer engagement capabilities.
This role owns the implementation and activation of our Customer Data Platform (CDP), defines the broader marketing technology roadmap, and leads product management for our (currently unnamed) loyalty program. You’ll work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data to build the systems and experiences that power personalization, lifecycle marketing, and customer engagement.
Product’s role in this space is to define and deliver the underlying capabilities — including system integration, data activation, and internal rollout — rather than to run marketing programs. This team does not create campaigns or manage day-to-day marketing execution.
The CDP vendor will be selected before this role begins. This role will lead implementation and ensure the platform delivers meaningful, usable capabilities across the business. The CDP is intended to serve as the central orchestration layer across our marketing ecosystem, connecting customer data with the tools used for outbound and onsite engagement.
You will define how that ecosystem works end-to-end — ensuring that channels such as email, SMS, push notifications, and onsite personalization operate in a coordinated way, rather than as disconnected systems.
You are accountable for making these capabilities work in practice. That includes shaping how personalization shows up in customer-facing experiences (web and app), enabling high-quality audience targeting, and improving the signals and feedback loops that marketing teams rely on.
You’ll lead a small team and partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data.
What You’ll Own
CDP Implementation & Data Activation
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
The pay ranges outlined below are presented in accordance with state-specific regulations. These ranges may differ in other areas and could be subject to variation based on regulatory minimum wage requirements. Actual pay rates will depend on factors such as position, location, level of experience, and applicable state or local minimum wage laws. If the regulatory minimum wage exceeds the minimum indicated in the pay range below, the regulatory minimum wage will be the minimum rate applied.
Salary Range: $194,600.00 - $291,900.00
Hourly or Salary Range will be reflected above. For a more detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO - see https://careers.petco.com/us/en/key-benefits
Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
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We’re proud to be where the pets go and where the pet people go. If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.
Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what’s right for pets and people.
- Pet First – Protect & Empower. All pets should Live their Best Life. We put the needs of pets and pet parents at the center of everything we do.
- Foster the Fun – Connect & Bond. Our Passion for pets brings us together! We celebrate the journey of pet parenthood through district experiences, products, and services.
- Let’s Go! Own & Commit. We are stronger as One Petco team. We bring our unique superpowers and champion authenticity in everyone to drive success.
We’re proud to be "where the pets go" to find everything they need to live their best lives for more than 60 years — from their favorite meals and toys, to trusted supplies and expert support from people who get it, because we live it. We believe in the universal truths of pet parenthood — the boundless boops, missing slippers, late night zoomies and everything in between. And we’re here for it. Every tail wag, every vet visit, every step of the way. We are 29,000 strong and together we nurture the pet-human bond in more than 1,500 Petco stores across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, 250 Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. In 1999, we founded Petco Love. Together, we support thousands of local animal welfare groups nationwide and have helped find homes for approximately 7 million animals through in-store adoption events.
Director, Marketing Technology & Loyalty
Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in office)
Reports to: VP, Digital Product Management
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Director of Marketing Technology & Loyalty to lead the evolution of Petco’s customer engagement capabilities.
This role owns the implementation and activation of our Customer Data Platform (CDP), defines the broader marketing technology roadmap, and leads product management for our (currently unnamed) loyalty program. You’ll work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data to build the systems and experiences that power personalization, lifecycle marketing, and customer engagement.
Product’s role in this space is to define and deliver the underlying capabilities — including system integration, data activation, and internal rollout — rather than to run marketing programs. This team does not create campaigns or manage day-to-day marketing execution.
The CDP vendor will be selected before this role begins. This role will lead implementation and ensure the platform delivers meaningful, usable capabilities across the business. The CDP is intended to serve as the central orchestration layer across our marketing ecosystem, connecting customer data with the tools used for outbound and onsite engagement.
You will define how that ecosystem works end-to-end — ensuring that channels such as email, SMS, push notifications, and onsite personalization operate in a coordinated way, rather than as disconnected systems.
You are accountable for making these capabilities work in practice. That includes shaping how personalization shows up in customer-facing experiences (web and app), enabling high-quality audience targeting, and improving the signals and feedback loops that marketing teams rely on.
You’ll lead a small team and partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data.
What You’ll Own
CDP Implementation & Data Activation
- Lead end-to-end implementation of the selected CDP
- Define how customer and pet profile data is ingested, unified, and activated
- Ensure tight integration with core systems (data platform, marketing channels, onsite/app experiences)
- Deliver initial use cases (lifecycle marketing, retention, personalization) and scale from there
- Define and own the multi-year marketing technology roadmap
- Establish the CDP as the central orchestration layer across the ecosystem
- Define how engagement tools (email, SMS, push, onsite personalization) work together in a coordinated way
- Evaluate and select additional tools as needed, and rationalize the current stack where appropriate
- Make clear build vs. buy decisions with a bias toward simplicity, speed, and long-term maintainability
- Own product strategy and roadmap for Petco’s (currently unnamed) loyalty program
- Improve enrollment, engagement, and retention across free and paid tiers
- Partner with Marketing and Analytics to refine offers, benefits, and lifecycle triggers
- Ensure tight integration between loyalty, CDP, and core commerce experiences
- Define how personalization is applied across web and mobile app experiences
- Partner with Product teams to integrate personalization into core journeys (browse, PDP, cart, post-purchase, etc.)
- Ensure personalization capabilities are practical, testable, and measurable
- Partner with Marketing to ensure paid traffic lands in the right experiences and converts at expected levels
- Support development and optimization of landing pages and entry points for paid campaigns
- Enable A/B testing and experimentation across landing pages and onsite experiences
- Improve tooling and data flows to support offer testing, targeting, and performance measurement
- Build and lead a small, high-performing team of Product Managers
- Drive cross-functional execution with Engineering, Analytics, and Marketing
- Establish clear milestones and success metrics tied to business outcomes (conversion, retention, LTV)
- Focus on practical, incremental progress — avoid overbuilding
- 8–12 years in product management, martech, loyalty, or related roles
- Proven experience implementing a CDP (Segment, Salesforce, Treasure Data, or similar)
- Experience working across multiple engagement channels (email, SMS, push, onsite personalization)
- Experience owning or working closely with loyalty/membership products
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures (warehouse-first, event streaming, identity resolution)
- Experience partnering with marketing teams on acquisition and conversion (landing pages, experimentation, targeting)
- Track record of building and scaling martech capabilities in a complex organization
- Ability to operate strategically while staying close to execution details
- Strong judgment — knows when to push for sophistication vs. when to keep things simple
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across stakeholders
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, or multi-channel businesses
- Familiarity with subscriptions or retail media
- Exposure to AI-driven personalization
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
The pay ranges outlined below are presented in accordance with state-specific regulations. These ranges may differ in other areas and could be subject to variation based on regulatory minimum wage requirements. Actual pay rates will depend on factors such as position, location, level of experience, and applicable state or local minimum wage laws. If the regulatory minimum wage exceeds the minimum indicated in the pay range below, the regulatory minimum wage will be the minimum rate applied.
Salary Range: $194,600.00 - $291,900.00
Hourly or Salary Range will be reflected above. For a more detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO - see https://careers.petco.com/us/en/key-benefits
Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
To translate this webpage to Spanish or other languages on your internet browser, click the translate button to the right of your browser address bar. Additional instructions can be found here: Google Chrome Help .
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Salary : $194,600 - $291,900