Senior Product Manager

Our Story

Xandr is a technology platform powering one of the largest global Advanced TV and Video advertising marketplaces in the industry. We scale our business as people who independently build the Xandr platform and brand. For more than a decade, our data insights, premium content, powerful technology, and scaled direct-to-consumer distribution have given us a competitive edge — leading us to improving advertising for all brands, publishers, and consumers.

How do we do this? With talented, passionate people like you! We bring together people from diverse backgrounds and give them an opportunity to bring their ideas to life. Join our community to Make Advertising Better!

The Job

Xandr is dedicated to one overarching goal: powering the advertising that powers the Internet. This role is part of the Yield Analytics product team within TV Platform that drives forward product features and strategic initiatives that spans across both buy and sell side of the Xandr TV Marketplace. Our Product Managers are strategic thinkers with an eye on the next big thing and work together with the entire company to make that a reality. Product Managers have skills and expertise based on product management and commercial experience and are expected to have deep industry knowledge. We engage deeply with customers, partners, and field organizations to identify market opportunities and break complex problems down into actionable roadmaps. Serving as the critical bridge between our technology and our business, we touch nearly every part of the organization – from our Sales and Services teams to Engineering, Marketing, and Design. We are committed to driving change across the industry, specifically when it comes to converged inventory types. We are encouraged to experiment, build, fail fast, and think creatively and holistically in order to create game changing advertising technology innovations.

You Will

Create and maintain roadmaps based on strategic value to Xandr
Define work and prioritize with Product Team(s)
Participate in the full product life-cycle for a designated product area, including research, scoping, prototyping, validation, productionalization, and roll-out
Collaborate closely with engineers through all stages of product development, offering business context and insights, providing clear and consistent priorities, working through tradeoffs, and communicating plans and requirements effectively
Contribute to product roll out efforts with marketing, sales and other client facing teams to create collateral including white papers, case studies, demos, training material, etc.
Deep understanding of customer needs and demonstrate ability to consolidate, rationalize, and prioritize market requirements into a product plan
Demonstrate the skillset necessary to take many client needs/requests and aggregate them into effective solutions that maximize strategic value to the company
Work directly with multiple engineering teams to build product
Manage product performance to set goals and KPIs
Take ambiguous projects and articulate and contribute to product strategy
Conduct market research and engage with customers, prospects and partners to identify market needs and opportunities
Act as the key product evangelist and guide for external users as well as internal teams

You Have

3-5 years of experience in a related professional area
Detail-oriented with strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills
Ability to build consultative and effective relationships with internal stakeholders as well as external customers and partners
Experience driving behavior change in some capacity, like rolling out new organizational processes, or introducing internal tools for other team members to use.
Excellent oral and written communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with business and technology leaders within Xandr and at customer/partner organizations
Platforms and/or with website, mobile app, or streaming video development is a plus
Experience collaborating with a broad range of other functions
Strong domain expertise in ad technology, strategies, and trends preferred
Deep understanding of advertising workflows and data dependencies
More about you

You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem
You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing knowledge and tools
Our Perks

Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Flexible time off including volunteer days, vacation, and holidays
Professional development resources and education reimbursement
Paid parental leave
Fitness reimbursement
AT&T internet/phone and HBOMax discounts
401k with company match
Our Culture

Xandr strives to foster a diverse, inclusive and engaging work environment. Our inclusivity in action includes:

Staying connected and embracing this new normal as we work from home – we may be social distancing but we’re #InsideTogether
Creating meaningful change for our communities and pathways for future generations of diverse talent through our employee volunteerism efforts
Sharing insight and stories on what it’s really like to work here
Partnering with organizations to support our commitment to women’s advancement in tech
Providing accommodations for persons with disabilities, both for interviewees and for employees. Should you require an accommodation, please let us know and we’ll make arrangements

Awards

Xandr, its products and its executives have received several prestigious awards. In 2020 alone, Cablefax’s annual The Faxies awards named Xandr’s EVP and GM Innovator of the Year and the Xandr technology organization Tech Team of the Year. In the same year, seven female executives were included in the Cynopsis list of Top Women in Media, and several of its products, innovations and client partnerships were recognized by esteemed outlets globally, including AdExchanger, Digiday, The Drum, ExchangeWire and Cynopsis. Concurrently, the company’s dedication to corporate social responsibility was recognized in Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas issue. Xandr was also included on Business Insider’s Hottest AdTech Companies list in 2019 and 2018.

Xandr is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.