Senior Product Manager, Monetization

About the Role:

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering the digital advertising supply chain of the future. PubMatic’s sell-side platform empowers the world’s leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and maximize monetization by enabling marketers to drive ROI and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices. Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has enabled the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a transparent and vibrant digital advertising supply chain. 

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. 

What You'll Do:

PubMatic is seeking a strategic and data-driven Senior Product Manager, Monetization to lead the development of a product area focused on enhancing the quality, monitoring, and enrichment of signals within the bid stream. This role will define the product strategy, roadmap, and execution plan to improve monetization through signal integrity and enrichment at scale. 

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AdTech, specifically 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. 

Who You Are:

• 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 Monetization. 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. 

Qualifications & Requirements 

• 5+ years of Product Management experience in the AdTech space, with a strong preference for programmatic advertising expertise. 

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering preferred, as this role requires strong technical understanding. 

• 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. 

• 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? 

• Drive innovation at the intersection of AI, real-time data processing, and programmatic advertising. 

• Work alongside industry-leading experts in a collaborative and fast-growing environment. 

• High-visibility role with a direct impact on revenue growth and product evolution. 

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities. 

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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