Manager, Inventory & Channel Program

The Inventory & Channel Program team is responsible for driving growth, profitability, and investment discipline across StackAdapt’s inventory and channel portfolio. This includes programmatic channels such as Display, Native, Video, CTV, Audio, and DOOH, as well as emerging and adjacent marketing channels such as email, direct mail, paid media, walled gardens, and AI-enabled buying experiences.

As the business matures, the team is evolving from feature-driven delivery toward a more rigorous investment portfolio approach, where roadmap decisions are based on business impact, confidence, urgency, and required investment.

We are looking for a Manager, Inventory & Channel Program to support portfolio-level decision making across inventory and channel initiatives. This role will partner closely with Channel Leads, Product, Engineering, Operations, Partnerships, GTM, Finance, and leadership to quantify opportunities, validate business cases, and help prioritize investments across the Inventory & Channels portfolio.

The role will initially focus on programmatic channels, where the team has the deepest operating history and largest near-term business impact, while helping establish a decisioning and prioritization model that can scale across the broader Inventory & Channels portfolio over time.

This is not a day-to-day delivery or implementation role. The role is focused on improving decision quality, ensuring roadmap opportunities are evaluated consistently, and helping leadership allocate resources toward the highest-value initiatives.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Partner with Channel Leads to evaluate opportunities across programmatic channels initially, with the framework extending over time to adjacent marketing channels and cross-channel initiatives
• Quantify expected business impact, including revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk reduction, customer adoption, and long-term strategic value
• Build and validate business cases for major roadmap opportunities and investment decisions
• Standardize prioritization inputs across channels, including impact, confidence, urgency, and investment requirements
• Maintain a portfolio-level view of inventory and channel opportunities, tradeoffs, assumptions, and prioritization rationale
• Support quarterly channel investment reviews and leadership roadmap discussions
• Identify gaps, overlaps, double-counting, or weak assumptions in investment recommendations
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, GTM, Partnerships, and Operations to ensure roadmap decisions are grounded in business outcomes and execution reality
• Help translate ambiguous business problems into clear decision frameworks, options, and recommendations
• Track whether completed initiatives achieved expected outcomes and feed learnings back into future prioritization

What You’ll Bring to the Table

• Experience in technology, product strategy, business operations, product operations, strategic finance, consulting, product management, or a related function
• Strong ability to quantify business impact, assess tradeoffs, and evaluate investment opportunities
• Experience supporting roadmap prioritization, portfolio planning, business case development, or resource allocation decisions
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with comfort working through ambiguity and imperfect data
• Ability to partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, GTM, Finance, Partnerships, and leadership stakeholders
• Strong structured problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and option assessment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex tradeoffs for leadership audiences
• Ability to influence without direct ownership of execution
• Strong business judgment and product intuition

Nice to Have

• MBA or equivalent business strategy experience
• Experience in ad tech, martech, marketplace businesses, platforms, or B2B SaaS
• Experience with pricing, monetization, marketplace efficiency, channel strategy, or product portfolio management
• Familiarity with programmatic advertising, inventory quality, supply integrations, media channel operations, or multi-channel marketing products

What Success Looks Like

• Channel opportunities are evaluated using a consistent decisioning and prioritization framework
• Leadership has a clear portfolio view of the highest-impact opportunities across Inventory & Channels
• Roadmap discussions are grounded in business impact, confidence, urgency, and investment tradeoffs
• Channel Leads receive stronger analytical support for business cases and investment recommendations
• Resource allocation decisions become more transparent, comparable, and outcome-driven
• The Inventory & Channel Program improves its ability to focus on the highest-value work without increasing process burden
• Completed initiatives are measured against expected outcomes, improving the quality of future investment decisions