Senior Product Manager, Mobile & RTB

At PubMatic, we thrive on innovation and excellence, delivering cutting-edge products to customers worldwide. Within PubMatic, the Marketplace Product Team is responsible for the strategy and roadmap of all Monetization and ML products. This team optimizes the hundreds of billions of transactions our real-time bidding platform processes daily, directly impacting PubMatic’s revenue and EBITDA. We seek a Senior Product Manager to drive the strategy and execution of our rapidly growing portfolio of Monetization and ML products.

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic and data-driven Senior Product Manager to lead the product strategy, roadmap, and execution of our RTB platform to drive mobile advertising growth via enhanced bid stream signals used for machine learning and AI algorithms

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AdTech, specifically mobile programmatic advertising, and a proven track record of managing high-scale, data-intensive products. This role requires a strong balance of strategic thinking, technical acumen, customer engagement, and leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own strategy and roadmap for our RTB platform, ensuring its optimized to maximize advertising spend. Develop and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Mobile Monetization and optimizing performance dollars. Example areas include Signal Fidelity & Enrichment, DSP traffic shaping, building new RTB frameworks, ARTF and more.
• Identify and implement AI/ML-driven solutions to enhance bid stream data and optimize monetization opportunities.
• Play a major role in driving scale, reliability and stability of the RTB Ad Serving platform
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, data science, sales, and marketing teams to align product development with market needs and company objectives.
• Customer Discovery & Engagement: Spend significant portion of their time engaging with customers, stakeholders, and industry experts to gather insights, identify pain points, and shape product direction. This role is also expected to build strong relationships with key industry peers in product.
• Execution & Delivery: Oversee the execution of product roadmap initiatives, ensuring efficient and scalable product development with minimal hands-on involvement in day-to-day operations.
• Performance & Growth: Define and track KPIs to measure the success of product initiatives, using data-driven insights to refine strategy and execution.
• Industry Thought Leadership: Represent PubMatic at key industry events, Customer Advisory Forums, and QBR/ABR meetings, establishing expertise in RTB signals as they relate to monetization within the programmatic ecosystem.
• Travel: This position requires domestic and international travel as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management experience in the AdTech space, with a strong preference for programmatic advertising expertise in Mobile app ecosystem
• Proven experience with real-time data processing, AI/ML applications in AdTech, and large-scale bid stream signal management.
• Deep understanding of RTB (Real-Time Bidding), DSPs, SSPs, and data enrichment methodologies. Performance DSP experience is a plus.
• Strong ability to identify new monetization opportunities by bridging cross-functional insights and leveraging engineering capabilities.
• Self-starter with strong leadership, judgment, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional communication skills, with experience in customer-facing engagements and discovery conversations.
• Ability to juggle multiple strategic priorities simultaneously.

Why Join Us?

• PubMatic is a publicly traded company at an inflection point, gaining strong momentum with its Agentic OS and accelerating growth across key channels like mobile.
• The mobile business is set for substantial growth, placing PubMatic at the center of this expanding opportunity.
• This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping our mobile product strategy, driving vision, innovation, and impact at scale.
• You’ll be working at the heart of PubMatic’s core business, where innovation and revenue growth intersect.

Qualifications:

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from well-known Institutes / Universities.

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