Director, Product Management - Buyer Solutions

About the Role:

As the Director, Product Management, Buyer Solutions at PubMatic, you will spearhead the strategy and vision around our buyer for our innovative new agentic planning, bidding, and delivery capabilities, leveraging your extensive expertise in digital advertising with experience helping buyers discover and forecast, transact, and optimize. Your deep understanding of market trends will enable you to craft forward-thinking solutions that meet the evolving needs of buyers. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure seamless product delivery, launch industry-leading solutions, and actively engage with industry bodies to stay ahead of emerging trends.

What You'll Do:

• Product Strategy and Vision: Lead the development of product strategy and vision for PubMatic's Buyer facing products. Leverage your deep understanding of buy-side digital advertising trends over the last few years to shape innovative solutions that captivate the market.
• Market Expertise: Demonstrate your authoritative insight into the evolving landscape in digital advertising. Evangelize how buyers approach digital advertising, identifying key factors driving their platform preferences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with sales, customer support, product marketing, business development, engineering, and operations teams. Your ability to work across functions will drive successful product delivery and adoption.
• Market Launch and Industry Participation: Partner proactively with global sales and marketing teams to successfully launch products into the market. Actively participate in industry bodies, staying ahead of trends and shaping industry standards.
• Visionary Roadmap Development: Define and execute the vision, roadmap, and performance metrics for PubMatic's buy side products. Educate marketing and customer-facing teams on key indicators and advantages of our offerings.

Who You Are

• Product Management Expertise: Bring at least 8+ years of exceptional product management experience, with a strong background in programmatic advertising and a deep knowledge of buyer advertising platforms.
• Proven Leadership: Demonstrate a track record of leading and inspiring product management teams. Your strong interpersonal skills and leadership abilities set you apart.
• Autonomous and Curious: Embody an autonomous learning spirit and a curiosity-driven problem-solving approach. Thrive as a team player, supporting collaboration and collective success.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Possess commercial acumen and customer-oriented thinking to work effectively with clients, understanding and validating their requirements.
• Effective Communicator: Excel in client communication and interaction, forging strong relationships with both clients and business teams.
• Educational Background: Hold a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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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