Director, Product Management – DSP

Job Description

Cadent powers the evolution of TV brand advertising. We provide marketers, agencies, operators, and media owners with data-driven solutions for buying and selling TV advertising. By connecting brands with opportunities across national inventory sources—cable, broadcast, and digital media—our technology improves efficiencies and boosts the results of linear, addressable, and cross-screen campaigns.

The Cadent Product team is seeking an ambitious, experienced product leader to guide our Converged TV DSP though a cycle of rapid growth and expansion. Leveraging data driven decision-making, your in-depth knowledge of demand side platforms and the ad tech ecosystem, you will manage our Converged TV DSP roadmap and partner with platform sales and business development teams on go-to market strategy.

About you:

• You are a strategic leader who also knows how to deliver exceptional software and business outcomes to users.
• You are a collaborative and proactive business partner who has experience working across engineering, operations, business development and client success teams to deliver value to customers.
• You are an amazing listener, communicator, and problem-solver
• You have an expert level understanding of the programmatic ad tech ecosystem
• You have demonstrated success defining and launching products, as well as evolving existing products

What you’ll do:

• Define the DSP product roadmap through client feedback, market analysis and competitive research
• Determine product demand, position, viability, and profitability and prioritize accordingly
• Lead and influence a team of product owners and software engineers to create clearly defined product and feature concepts, business requirements and practical implementation plans to deliver
• Break down complex, unstructured problems into well-defined, manageable problems recommended solutions
• Provide product education and ecosystem thought leadership throughout the organization
• Support platform sales and business development partnerships and conversations; manage demo environments and scripts to ensure our product shines to current and potential new customers
• Lead thoughtful, well-crafted DSP RFI and RFP responses
• Foster strong working relationships with various internal departments including Product team colleagues, Engineering, Sales/Business Development, Marketing & Operations
• Recruit talent across product and engineering teams

Your skills and experience

• 7-10 years of experience as a Product Manager for a DSP, SSP or DMP
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience with executive level communication and presentations
• Ability to understand and construct complex data algorithms
• Functional knowledge of SQL and ability to run ad-hoc analyses with minimal involvement from engineering a plus
• Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science degree a plus

If the leading edge of media technology is the place you want to be, please contact us today and let’s start the conversation!

The full-time annual base salary ranges for this role are listed below, by location. We take into consideration an individual’s background and experience in determining final salary. Please note, this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Cadent is willing to pay at the time of this posting. All regular Cadent employees are eligible for a target bonus, health insurance, 401(k), life insurance and disability benefits, Flexible Time Off (FTO), special leaves that include disability, parental, and family care leave, and a wide array of voluntary benefits including pet insurance.

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