Product Manager, Buyer Cloud, Freewheel

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

About the role

This role will work on the Buyer Cloud (fka Beeswax) buying platform within the FreeWheel product suite. Buyer Cloud's driving vision is to be the best platform in the world for buying Connected TV (CTV) advertising. Buyer Cloud is an easy-to-use, massively scaled, high-availability and highly flexible platform used by buyers worldwide. We offer our customers the most extensible and transparent advertising platform in the world and process millions of transactions per second.

You'll immerse yourself in the Connected TV market to help make us the best platform in the world to buy CTV advertising, with a focus on our core ad serving application capabilities. Working alongside colleagues throughout Comcast Advertising and FreeWheel, you'll help deliver innovative products that help customers better deliver their ads to the right audiences worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Support the conception, design, and implementation of capabilities that offer our customers unique opportunities to buy CTV advertising, with a particular emphasis on ad serving, filtering, targeting, and other core Demand Side Platform (DSP) ad delivery functions.
• Collaborate closely with our engineering team to guide products to launch and beyond.
• Work with stakeholders, internal and external, to help drive high-quality decisions and outcomes.
• Showcase product launches in release trainings, client emails, and company webinars.
• Analyze product management activities, define product concepts, and justify product-related expenditures.
• Assist other product managers in solving semi-complex problems and guide them through larger project initiatives.
• Manage profit and loss or budgetary aspects for assigned products, ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Evaluate market trends, consumer needs, and technological advancements to inform product strategy.
• Develop detailed product features, requirements, and implementation plans, prioritizing based on market needs.
• Envision new product features through participation in cross-functional teams, fostering innovation and collaboration.
• Coordinate with external vendors and strategic partners to ensure timely, on-budget delivery of product initiatives.
• Review and adjust pricing strategies to maintain market competitiveness and company profitability.
• Conduct periodic margin analyses to identify opportunities for product improvement and cost optimization.
• Ensure seamless coordination among cross-functional teams to achieve product launch and lifecycle objectives.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

Requirements

• 2+ years of product management experience, ideally on the buy-side of advertising products.
• Familiarity with, and interest in, building and scaling a Demand Side Platform (DSP).
• Exposure to Connected TV and television advertising, or real-time bidding platforms, is a plus.
• Strong ability to understand customer needs and translate them into product requirements.
• Experience working directly with engineering stakeholders.
• Growing track record of taking product initiatives through the full lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communications style based on your audience.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience, or extensive related professional experience (7-10 years).

Skills

• Demand Side Platforms (DSP)
• AI Workflow Integration
• Product Management
• Communication
• Advertising Technologies

Pay

New York Pay Range: $125,204.74 - $187,807.12. Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

Benefits

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.