Associate Director/Director, Product Management, Conversational AI Advertising job in Redwood City
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Redwood City, California - CA PubMatic
| Job Ref: | 5159565008 |
| Employer: | PubMatic |
| Category: | Product Marketing |
| Salary and Benefits: | USD 170,000.00 - 250,000.00 per year |
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| State: | California - CA |
| City: | Redwood City |
| Map: | United States, California , Redwood City (Show on map) |
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About the Role We are looking for an experienced Associate Director/ Director, Product Management - Conversational AI Advertising to lead the development of advertising solutions for AI chatbot and conversational interfaces. Conversational AI is rapidly becoming a new interface for discovery, recommendations, and commerce. As users shift from browsing feeds and search results to interacting with AI assistants, a new category of advertising inventory is emerging. In this role, you will define how advertising works inside AI-driven conversations and build the platform capabilities required to monetize conversational AI inventory at scale. You will drive the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution while collaborating closely with engineering, data science, marketplace, and go-to-market teams. This is an opportunity to help define a new advertising category and build the infrastructure that connects conversational AI platforms with advertisers and commerce partners. What You'll Do: As a member of our product management team, you'll be responsible for creating the vision, strategy, design, and execution of conversational advertising solutions within our platform. Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for conversational AI advertising across our product portfolio. Lead product discovery efforts to determine how advertising should operate within conversational interfaces while preserving user trust and delivering advertiser value. Translate advertiser, publisher, and platform needs into scalable monetization products for conversational inventory. Design and build systems that support:
Partner closely with engineering and machine learning teams to develop the infrastructure required to integrate conversational inventory into the programmatic advertising ecosystem. Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration, ensuring alignment with marketplace and revenue objectives. Collaborate with sales, partnerships, product marketing, and customer success teams to define go-to-market strategies and drive adoption with advertisers and conversational platform partners. Measure product performance, analyze marketplace dynamics, and iterate to improve advertiser performance and publisher monetization. Stay current on developments in AI, conversational interfaces, commerce platforms, and advertising technology to inform product strategy. Who You Are: Who You Are 7+ years of experience in Product Management, including significant experience in advertising technology, programmatic marketplaces, or large-scale ad platforms. Deep understanding of ad marketplace dynamics, including auctions, targeting systems, advertiser workflows, and measurement frameworks. Proven track record of launching and scaling platform products or new inventory types within complex advertising ecosystems. Strong technical fluency with the ability to collaborate closely with engineering and data science teams on systems involving ranking models, signal processing, or marketplace infrastructure. Experience translating ambiguous opportunities into clear product strategy and shipped platform capabilities. Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence engineering, business teams, and senior leadership. Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and the ability to operate in emerging markets where standards and best practices are still evolving. Experience with AI-driven systems, recommendation platforms, or conversational interfaces is highly valued. 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, paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!), reimbursement for mobile and fully stocked pantries plus in-office catered lunches 5 days per week. 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. #LI-HYBRID Compensation Disclosure In accordance with applicable law, the below salary range provided is PubMatic's reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role. New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package. Total Compensation Range $170,000-$250,000 USD | |
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