Associate Director, Product Management - Buyer Solutions

About the Role:

We are seeking an Associate Director, Product Management, Buyer Solutions with programmatic advertising experience to join our growing team in Redwood City or New York on a hybrid schedule.

The Associate Director is responsible for driving and implementing product strategy for our Agentic-driven buy-side planning and delivery initiatives within our buyer solutions offerings. We are looking for an individual passionate about innovation and problem solving.

What You'll Do:

In this role, you will balance ongoing new feature development with modernization of our existing technology to support our next-gen agentic-focused platform for media buyers. The ideal candidate has experience managing product delivery for platforms with dependencies across multiple teams, and be interested in solving challenges in an evolving ecosystem of GenAI-based industry disruption.

You'll be responsible for creating the vision, strategy, design, and execution of your area in our product portfolio:

• Support all aspects of product success, including identifying product opportunities, gathering requirements, defining specifications and key metrics, and working closely with engineering, commercial teams, and product marketing to ensure goals are met
• Be the authority on how buyers transact and use our media buying platform agentically by collecting and synthesize feedback from our clients and internal teams
• Perform competitive analysis and use insights gained to drive prioritization decisions
• Support and communicate a clear product roadmap to clients, internal teams, and company executives
• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine feature prioritization and manage the development backlog

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of product management experience - preferably in Ad Tech
• Recent experience working with DSPs, SSPs or other programmatic platforms within the digital media space spanning web, mobile, and connected TV
• Familiarity with the OpenRTB protocol and more general technical concepts such as APIs
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven leadership track record
• Fast learner, curious problem solver, and team player
• Exceptional client communication and interaction skills, including the ability to communicate with client and business teams to gather and validate requirements.
• Experience working in media trading desks and agencies is a plus

Expected Travel: 10% (domestic and international)

Additional Information

Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide such as, paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!), reimbursement for mobile and fully stocked pantries plus in-office catered lunches 5 days per week.

Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

About PubMatic

PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.

Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.

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