Director of Product, Monetization

About the Role:

PubMatic is seeking a strategic and data-driven Director of Product, 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.

What You'll Do:

• 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 in the Signal Fidelity & Enrichment product area, ensuring alignment with business goals and monetization opportunities.

• Bid Stream Signal Quality: Oversee automated monitoring and measurement of bid stream signals, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality within PubMatic's bid stream. 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.

We'd Love for You to Have:

• 8+ 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.

• While this is an IC role, experience managing a team of Product Managers is a plus.

• Ability to juggle multiple strategic priorities simultaneously.

• Existing industry relationships with a network of mobile and programmatic contacts are highly desirable.

Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned o 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, including paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, physical and financial wellness programs, reimbursement for mobile, fully stocked pantries, as well as in-office 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 powerand 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.

Compensation Disclosure

In accordance with applicable law, the below salary range provided is PubMatic's reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role. New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package.

Total Compensation Range

$250,000-$300,000 USD