Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join OpenX as a Principal Product Manager and own the product backlog, define requirements, track KPIs, and lead the product development lifecycle. You will be responsible for communication between engineering, customers, stakeholders, and other teams. The ideal candidate is an owner, dives deep into topics, thinks independently, and thrives in a startup environment. This role requires 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years in adtech. Strong communication, analytical skills, and a deep understanding of customer needs are essential. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Management experience
• 4+ years working in product in adtech with both a deep and broad understanding of the competitive landscape and customer needs across publishers, advertisers, data providers, and DSPs
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, including to simplify complex topics for a diverse set of stakeholders (exec, engineering, marketing, sales, etc.)
• Ability to maintain consistent and genuine empathy for customers, key stakeholders, and teammates
• Highly analytical with a comfort in using data to make decisions
• Insatiable curiosity about customer problems, our competition, and the industry at-large
• Proven ability to deliver zero-to-one products with high-impact
• Experience working directly with data science and products that utilize AI and/or machine learning

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a product roadmap with little oversight and prescriptive direction for an emerging and innovative area of the product suite
• Be the product owner for your scrum team, including driving all scrum ceremonies, writing user stories, maintaining a prioritized backlog, and specifying features with your development team
• Continually manage and iterate upon products after the initial launch, as well as existing solutions within this product area
• Define experiments to validate new product ideas and/or launches
• Establish metrics to measure effectiveness and drive improvements
• Cultivate and continually nurture trusting relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders to maintain alignment and constant communication loops
• Stay abreast of market trends to identify opportunities for improvement and incorporate new product features on an ongoing basis
• Be the voice of the customer in all internal conversations and use it to drive key decisions
• Provide source data and messaging for all marketing activities
• Independently drive the end-to-end GTM for product/feature launches, including assembly of the GTM team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a DSP in a product or technical role
• Experience and knowledge of CTV, especially advertiser needs within CTV

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k
• Equity