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Digital Ad Product Manager, Channel Innovation

American City Business Journals
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Jan 2026

About the role

Own and grow channel products

  • Lead the monetization strategy for newsletters and email products (placement packaging, pricing logic, tiering, targeting, performance benchmarks).
  • Define and test new channel offerings – exploring social media, shortform video and other emerging media formats.

Drive pilots from idea to scale

  • Translate concepts into clear product specs, and gotomarket packages; run testandlearn pilots, measure outcomes, and decide when to scale, iterate, or sunset.
  • Work with UX and development teams, as well as AI vibe coding tools, to turn ideas into prototypes and fully realized solutions, iterating through feedback.

Enable sales & marketing

  • Build positioning, sales materials, pricing, and training that make it easy for sellers to go to market.
  • Guide marketing and positioning efforts for owned products including email and content campaigns created to increase awareness and leads for local markets.

Operate with data

  • Monitor product performance, identify yield opportunities, and propose optimizations to pricing, packaging, or delivery.
  • Establish relationships with local sales teams to get market feedback on product needs; incorporate that feedback throughout product development cycles

Collaborate crossfunctionally

  • Work closely with advertising operations, client experience, editorial, design and development, marketing, and local market sales teams; coordinate with external partners or vendors when needed.
  • Work with sales development and training teams to support local market product adoption efforts.
  • Contribute to release cycles and product process improvements.
Qualifications
  • 5–7+ years in digital product management or within media, advertising, or a related B2B environment.
  • Proven experience constructing and pricing products (e.g., newsletters, email sponsorships) and/or social/shortform media offerings.
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort in dashboards and data, and interpreting performance into actions.
  • Excellent go-to-market instincts: you can turn complex capabilities into simple, sellable products with clear value and outcomes.
  • Natural project leadership: organized, proactive, and effective at coordinating stakeholders to deliver on time.
  • Project management skills: ability to translate build of a product into clear steps and timelines.

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American City Business Journals

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