Principal Product Manager

Company at a GlanceOpenX is focused on unleashing the full economic potential of digital media companies. We do this by making digital advertising markets and technologies that are designed to deliver optimal value to publishers and advertisers on every ad served across all screens.
At OpenX, we have built a team that is uniquely experienced in designing and operating high-scale ad marketplaces, and we are constantly on the lookout for thoughtful, creative executors who are as fascinated as we are about finding new ways to apply a blend of market design, technical innovation, operational excellence, and empathetic partner service to the frontiers of digital advertising.
We are looking for a US-based Principal Product Manager to join the OpenX product team. They will own the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, define requirements, track KPIs, and lead every aspect of the product development lifecycle. Critical to success in this role will be building and maintaining communication loops between engineering teams, customers, stakeholders, marketing, project management, and commercial teams across time zones.
The ideal candidate is a person who takes ownership, dives deep into topics, and thinks independently. Lastly, this person knows how to succeed in a startup environment and is always willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a product roadmap with little oversight and prescriptive direction for an emerging and innovative area of the product suite
• Be the product owner for your scrum team, including driving all scrum ceremonies, writing user stories, maintaining a prioritized backlog, and specifying features with your development team
• Continually manage and iterate upon products after the initial launch, as well as existing solutions within this product area
• Define experiments to validate new product ideas and/or launches
• Establish metrics to measure effectiveness and drive improvements
• Cultivate and continually nurture trusting relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders to maintain alignment and constant communication loops
• Stay abreast of market trends to identify opportunities for improvement and incorporate new product features on an ongoing basis
• Be the voice of the customer in all internal conversations and use it to drive key decisions
• Provide source data and messaging for all marketing activities Independently drive the end-to-end GTM for product/feature launches, including assembly of the GTM team

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Product Management experience 3+ years working in product in adtech with both a deep and broad understanding of the competitive landscape and customer needs across publishers, advertisers, data providers, and DSPs
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, including simplifying complex topics for a diverse set of stakeholders (exec, engineering, marketing, sales, etc.)
• Ability to maintain consistent and genuine empathy for customers, key stakeholders, and teammates
• Highly analytical with a comfort in using data to make decisions Insatiable curiosity about customer problems, our competition, and the industry at-large
• Proven ability to deliver zero-to-one products with high-impact
• Experience working directly with data science and products that utilize AI and/or machine learning.
• Experience working at an SSP or DSP in a product or technical role - nice to have
• Experience and knowledge of CTV, especially advertiser needs within CTV - nice to have
• Experience developing automated optimization products and/or algorithms - nice to have

OpenX VALUESOur five company values form a solid bedrock serving to define us as a group and guide the company. Our values remind us that how we do things often matters as much as what we do.
WE ARE ONEWe are one team. There are no exceptions. We are a group of strong and diverse individuals unified by a shared mission. We embrace challenges and win together as a team. We respect and care about our colleagues and cultivate an inclusive culture
WE ARE CUSTOMER CENTRICWe innovate on behalf of our customers. We understand, respect, and listen carefully to our customers. We build great products to solve our customers’ problems. We manage our customers’ expectations clearly and honestly. We are a trusted partner to all of our customers - we act with integrity at all times. We care.
OPENX IS OURSWe are all owners of OpenXWe all have a voice to improve OpenXWe stake our personal and professional reputations on the excellence of our workWe are not interested in just "doing our jobs"; we take ownership to drive results
WE ARE AN OPEN BOOKWe understand and respect what each of us does. We are e