Director, Product Management – Mobile Monetization

About the Role:

Mobile App is a key area of focus and growth for PubMatic. We are seeking a strategic and data-driven Director, Product Management to lead the development of our Mobile Monetization product portfolio. This role will define the product strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for monetization products across PubMatic’s ecosystem of mobile app publishers.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AdTech, specifically programmatic advertising in Mobile app space, 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 Mobile Monetization, including driving the roadmap of ML products designed to drive better monetization on mobile app environment.
• AI/ML: Identify and implement AI/ML-driven solutions to enhance mobile app bid stream data and optimize monetization opportunities.
• 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 relationships with key industry peers in mobile app monetization space.
• 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.
• Travel: This position requires some domestic and international travel as needed.

We’d Love For You To Have

• 8 years + of Product Management experience in the AdTech and Mobile App monetization 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.
• Prior work in mobile DSP or mobile performance advertising is a big plus.

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  paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!.

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.