Sr. Product Manager, Programmatic Advertising

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

Responsible for the product management activities of the Freewheel Streaming Hub Direct Sales Management team. Primary focus on Supply Side capabilities – building programmatic ad decisioning, optimization and compliance capabilities for Programmatic Module. This role will own a product area within the Direct Sales Management of products but will also partners with other Streaming Hub product managers to design and implement key features underpinning the Freewheel programmatic strategy across several investment areas: Programmatic Module, FW SSP and Marketplace Platform (Private and Exchange). Supports the Direct Sales Management team in reaching the team objectives and keeps leadership team informed of key developments and issues in their areas of responsibilities. Partners with other product team members across Freewheel to successfully deliver on dependencies. Responsible for the relationship with engineering peers within the Direct Sales Management team.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Plans and maintains the overall roadmap, strategy and objectives for a product area that focusing on building programmatic ad decisioning, optimization and compliance capabilities for Programmatic Module.
• Owns coordination with other PMs to drive designs across use cases for that product area
• Owns the coordination with the engineering teams responsible for delivery of the product area
• Owns designs and implementation for key capabilities within the Direct Sales Management product suite Programmatic Module area.
• Partners with Go-to-market teams for the release of key capabilities within the Direct Sales Management product suite Programmatic Module area.
• Applies understanding of internal product technologies and is aware of other technologies in programmatic advertising
• Works with stakeholders to clearly identify opportunities, outline business cases and prioritize features within the Direct Sales Management Programmatic Module roadmap
• Demonstrates good project and time management skills, ensures timely delivery of projects, and effectively escalates issues
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment across areas of ownership
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What you bring:

• Be able to generate Functional Documentation for large functionality based on business requirement analysis.
• Programmatic Advertising, SSP
• Client Level Relationship Management
• Product Roadmap and Prioritization
• Lead Agile Development Process
• Program Management
• Technical analytical skills (data modeling & analytics)
• Cross functional collaboration
• (Nice to Have) DSP, Ad Server experience

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Agile Project Management, Client Relationship Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Functional Documentation, Product Roadmap, Programma