Director, Product Management

Director, Product Management

New York City, New York

Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office)

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.  Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

The Director, Product Management will lead the prioritization, design and execution of our Connected TV (CTV) ad-serving products and features at Magnite, Inc. You will work closely with Product Management, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Engineering to bring leading-edge products to market. In this role you will lead various teams through ideation, prioritization, execution, go-to-market, and adoption. We are looking for a candidate who can operate at both the strategic and feature detail level, have a passion for understanding and improving existing technologies to pave the way for innovative breakthroughs with a strong drive to action and results, and can build and grow product teams.

In this role you will: 

• Work with customers, sales, operations, engineering, business intelligence, marketing and product management to assess the technical feasibility of features, prioritize work, manage product roadmaps, develop product specifications and GTM strategies products and features

• Lead the process to propose and document efficient request and prioritization frameworks and work with engineering to plan sprints and longer-term roadmaps

• Surface technical and scope trade-offs required to allow the organization to make informed decisions

• Define, develop, and execute the roadmap and performance metrics for the video ad server

• Collaborate with Product teams and engineers to bring solutions to market on time and within budget

• Build and grow teams that operate through detailed analysis to make informed, data driven suggestions and decisions

• Negotiate with Engineering, and other Product Managers on features and functionalities to be included in each release and build and grow teams that can effectively do the same

• Build and grow teams and frameworks that ensure successful dialogue with engineering teams to develop product specifications, data flows and tracking requirements

• Ensure effective GTM planning with commercials and operations teams including producing necessary supporting documentation and training

We’re looking for someone with:

• 8+ years of experience in digital media, ad tech and/or software product management working in complex cross-functional environments on large scale enterprise platforms

• The ability to understand a variety of programming languages commonly used in ad tech, online publishing and mobile and CTV devices

• Deep expertise and understanding of the online display, mobile, video and CTV advertising space both from a publisher, exchange, and buy-side perspective

• Experience in video advertising, APIs and industry standards is a strong plus

• Strong domain expertise in one or more areas of ad serving, real-time ad exchanges such as DSP, DMP, SSPs, etc. is a strong plus

• Past demonstrated success managing complex products and integrations in medium to large organizations; experience in startup environments where a new product was taken to market successfully is a plus

• Deep knowledge and understanding of software development best practices, digital content management and delivery, ad server technology, analytics platforms and general web development technologies across multiple platforms and device types

• An ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of the organization, ranging from detailed product documentation for engineering to executive level presentation skills to developing sales training materials

• Technical background is a plus

  • BS/MS in Computer Science and Business or equivalent hands on experience indicating strong technical and business background

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