Technical Product Manager (Ad Tech)

Mediavine is seeking a seasoned Technical Product Manager with significant experience in the ad tech space to join our team. This role will be responsible for helping to drive revenue opportunities and will directly report to the Manager of Product Management.

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 10,000 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflect the industries we serve and the world we live in. The unique experiences and perspectives of our team members is encouraged and valued. If you are talented, driven, enjoy the pace of a start-up like environment, let's talk!

The Ad Tech, Technical Product Manager will serve as a vital bridge between technical execution and product strategy, ensuring the successful delivery of features and projects for our ad management platform, including the Data & Analytics and SRE teams that support it. This role focuses on translating complex technical requirements into actionable tasks while managing cross-functional relationships with engineering leadership and key stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a strong background in ad technology, data analysis, and agile software development, fostering innovation, ensuring project alignment with strategic goals, and driving optimal outcomes through collaboration.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define clear project milestones, timelines, and dependencies, ensuring on-time delivery of ad tech features and initiatives
• Help define and drive revenue enhancement strategies by innovating new monetization pathways and creating value-driven revenue streams for our publishers
• Optimize technical infrastructure to ensure seamless ad experiences across platforms
• Partner closely with individual contributors, engineering leadership, and stakeholders to align technical product strategy with broader company goals
• Monitor performance metrics and identify opportunities for optimization, driving initiatives to improve ad monetization across our platforms
• Define and track KPIs for ad tech initiatives, using data-driven insights to monitor performance, recommend iterations, and drive continuous improvement
• Identify and address technical risks that may impact project timelines, quality, or performance, and work proactively with engineering teams to mitigate those risks
• Communicate progress, issues, and roadmap changes effectively to cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency
• Collaborate with the Director of Innovation, other PMs, and stakeholders to explore emerging technologies in ad tech and assess their potential impact on our business
• Stay up-to-date with evolving ad tech standards, protocols, and best practices to ensure the platform remains competitive and innovative
• Foster a culture of experimentation and technical advancement, encouraging the team to continuously explore new opportunities for growth and improvement
• Availability to travel to on-site locations for team retreats, leadership meetings and the annual all hands events approximately 15% of the time

Requirements

Location:

• Applicants must be based in the United States

You Have:

• 7+ years of progressive product management experience with a focus within ad tech
• 5+ years of experience as a technical product manager
• Strong understanding of header bidding, ad serving, OpenRTB, ad tracking, and performance measurement
• Experience with Prebid, GAM and other relevant ad technologies
• Proven track record of launching successful ad tech products or features
• Engineering experience in JavaScript/Node
• Experience writing SQL queries
• Strong awareness of industry participants including SSPs, DSPs, and other vendors
• Proficiency in data analysis, reporting, and interpreting ad metrics
• Experience efficiently communicating findings and progress to cross-functional teams, senior leadership with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with ad optimization algorithms, and machine learning, a plus
• Experience with Snowflake, a plus
• Knowledge of advertising industry regulations and data privacy standards, a plus
• Familiarity with data systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS), or SRE practices, a plus
• Ability to understand complex systems, identify interdependencies and can recognize how platform components interact with each other, while anticipating downstream effects of product decisions
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of technical features and initiatives
• Proficiency in project management tools (Jira) and understanding of Agile methodologies
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Excellent communication skills demonstrated by active listening, collaboration and an openness to ideas and concepts presented by others
• Proven ability to conduct thorough research and be an innovative thinker, which involves anticipating, identifying, defining, and solving complex problems
• Availability to travel to on-site locations for team retreats, leadership meetings and the annual all hands events approximately 15% of the time

Benefits

• 100% remote
• Comprehensive benefits including Health, Dental, Vision and 401k match
• Generous paid time off
• Wellness and Home Office Perks
• Up to 12 weeks of paid Parental Leave
• Inclusive Family Forming Benefits
• Professional development opportunities
• Travel opportunities for teams, our annual All Hands retreat as well as industry events

Mediavine provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

At Mediavine, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. The base salary range for this role at the time of posting is $145,000 - $165,000 USD/yr.