Associate Director, Product Management — Monetization

Must have:
Experience in Programmatic Advertising

Pub Matic is the leading AI-powered ad tech company delivering measurable advertising performance through an intelligent, unified platform that connects buyers, publishers, data partners, and commerce media across CTV, mobile app, and omnichannel environments.

We’re seeking an Associate Director, Product Management, Monetization with programmatic advertising experience to join our growing team in Redwood City on a hybrid schedule. The Associate Director is responsible for driving and implementing product strategy for our SSP monetization capabilities within our Marketplace Demand product team. We are looking for an individual passionate about innovation and problem-solving who can own one of the core charters within our Monetization organization.

In this role, you will balance ongoing new feature development with the modernization of our existing technology to support our next‑gen machine learning models for QPS management/traffic shaping. The ideal candidate has experience managing product delivery for platforms with dependencies across multiple teams, and is energized by solving challenges in an ecosystem being reshaped by GenAI-based industry disruption. You will own the vision, strategy, design, and execution for your area of our product portfolio:

• Define and own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for monetization products — including outbound bid throttling for DSPs, inbound traffic shaping, and PMP / deal‑level optimization.
• Own the roadmap for QPS management, including the next generation of ML products designed to drive better monetization and infrastructure efficiency.
• Identify and implement AI/ML-driven solutions to advance our machine learning models, and help define the next generation of traffic‑shaping ML.
• Support all aspects of product success — identifying product opportunities, gathering requirements, defining specifications and key metrics — working closely with engineering, data science, commercial teams, and product marketing to ensure goals are met.
• Perform competitive analysis and use the insights gained to drive prioritization decisions.
• Build and communicate a clear product roadmap to clients, internal teams, and company executives, and represent the team with key industry peers across relevant industry forums.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine feature prioritization and manage the development backlog, defining and tracking KPIs to refine strategy and execution.

• 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…