Staff Product Manager – Campaign & Demand Optimization

Sirius XM • Oakland, CA

103d • $139,400 - $180,000

About The Position

As a Staff Product Manager for AdsWizz Revenue Optimization, you’ll deliver solutions that increase revenue for our customers and for AdsWizz by advancing our Programmatic and AdServing capabilities across the full transaction lifecycle. You’ll focus on initiatives such as DSP enablement, yield optimization, throttling and QPS management, forecasting and pacing, deal and campaign troubleshooting, and publisher integrations; measuring success through revenue lift, cost efficiency, and reliable deal/campaign delivery. You’ll partner closely with Ad Platform Engineering to evolve services for bidding (e.g. OpenRTB, ad-break, competitive separation, etc.), pacing and yield logic, ad-request enrichment, and transaction handling for both streaming and podcast supply. And with Product Analytics, you’ll establish a disciplined experimentation environment; designing A/B tests and validating results through data analysis, so we can confidently roll out proven optimizations at scale.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in advertising technology and media industries, with a focus on yield, programmatic, and ad delivery, plus a strong understanding of evolving audio and ad tech
• Strong technical depth in ad delivery & RTB: OpenRTB, VAST, SSAI, podding/competitive separation, request/response shaping, QPS management, pacing/forecasting, deals/PMPs
• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency with SQL and product analytics, dashboard building, and proven experimentation skills (A/B testing, metrics design, etc.)
• Ability to evaluate potential solutions thoughtfully while solving problems and calculating the impact of changes on existing services
• Excellent communication skills; able to work directly with engineering leads to understand complex technical implementations and collaborate on new features and publisher-related challenges
• Thrives in demanding, innovative, and entrepreneurial environments
• Confident yet humble approach
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering to scope, design, and deliver real-time services for bidding, ad-request enrichment, throttling/QPS allocation, yield/pacing logic, and transaction handling (OpenRTB, VAST, ad pods, competitive separation)
• Frame problems, write crisp PRDs/specs, define acceptance criteria, and drive execution from discovery through GA with staged rollouts.
• Collaborate and communicate clearly and often with engineering, GTM, Programmatic Ops and Ad Product teams to ensure Revenue Optimization initiatives align with corporate strategy and address publisher needs
• Promote forward-thinking by prioritizing features and addressing current market challenges while anticipating future trends.
• Define problem spaces, key use cases, and product concepts. Validate theories and hypotheses swiftly to accelerate innovation
• Collaborate with Product Analytics, design high-quality experiments: hypotheses, success metrics, sample sizing and guardrails; build dashboards and scorecards to inform fast ship/no-ship decisions.
• Work with Programmatic Ops to expand and optimize DSP integrations: define the 'optimal setup,' certification tests, and monitoring; triage and resolve deal/campaign delivery issues.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $139,400 to $180,000 depending on skills, qualifications, and experience
• Eligibility for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees