Principal Product Manager, OpenX
$180-201k
+ Bonus + Equity
Sell-side platform
Be an early applicant
Sell-side platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-201k
+ Bonus + Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
OpenX's mission is to create awesome programmatic marketplaces.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a person who takes ownership, dives deep into topics, and thinks independently
- Lastly, this person knows how to succeed in a startup environment and is always willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done
- 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
- (Desired, but not required) Experience working at a DSP in a product or technical role
- (Desired, but not required) Experience and knowledge of CTV, especially advertiser needs within CTV
What the job involves
- We are looking for a US-based Principal Product Manager to join the OpenX product team
- They will own the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, define requirements, track KPIs, and lead every aspect of the product development lifecycle
- Critical to success in this role will be building and maintaining communication loops between engineering teams, customers, stakeholders, marketing, project management, and commercial teams across time zones
- 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
Our take
Programmatic advertising - the automatic placement of advertisements typically conducted via the internet and based on a personalised understanding of viewers’ online profiles - has become a vital tool for every business. OpenX provides the infrastructure for this booming industry with their ad exchange platform.
The company is now focused on adjusting its platforms to reflect the values of the modern society it is doing so much to shape. That means accepting tough but fair multi-million dollar FTC fines for data breaches as well as becoming the first ad exchange to go carbon neutral.
The challenge of competing with both ever-changing views on the value and efficacy of programmatic advertising is not a small one. However, OpenX has proven that it is able to innovate with the times. It has deep partnerships across the ecosystem, partnering with Attain in 2022 to enable supply-side targeting for advertisers, enabling the company to reach further heights.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2013
$25m
SERIES E
May 2011
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $75.5m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision for both employees and their families
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Pasadena, CA
Leadership
Damon Reeve
(Board Director)Previously Board Director at Snowplow Analytics for 3 years and CEO of Authenticated Digital for 4 years. Currently acts as CEO for Ozone.
Scott Switzer
(Advisor)Previously Limited Partner at FirstMark Capital for 8 years and Advisor at Flybridge Capital Partners for 4 years. Acts as CTO for Ozone.
John Gentry
(CEO, not founder)Previously acted as President of Spot Runner, developer of the Malibu Media Platform, an online media exchange that simplifies the buying and selling of television media. Experience as Chief Revenue Officer of Green Dot, the pioneer and market leader in the prepaid debit card industry.
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