Product Manager, Ad Buying Experience

Pandora, part of SiriusXM, is at the forefront of audio entertainment and advertising solutions. The Product Manager will drive innovation in the Ad Buying Experience, focusing on optimizing ad tech systems and enhancing the advertiser experience through data-driven insights and seamless integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Track and anticipate market trends in ad technology, programmatic buying, and platform integrations to ensure SiriusXM Media’s Ad Buying Experience evolves ahead of customer and industry needs
• Translate stakeholder goals from Advertisers, SiriusXM Ad Revenue Organization, Ad Product Marketing, Finance, and Analytics into clear product requirements and actionable priorities that drive adoption, efficiency, and revenue growth
• Work with manager/teammates to help define and drive the product vision and roadmap for key components of SiriusXM Media’s ad buying buying ecosystem — including planning, campaign management, reporting, billing, and partner integrations — ensuring cohesive experiences across internal and third-party systems
• Leverage data and insights to guide product decisions, validate feature impact, and inform roadmap prioritization in alignment with broader business objectives
• Serve as the subject matter expert for your product area — articulating the what and why of key initiatives, writing detailed requirements, and driving clarity across technical and non-technical audiences
• Champion integration excellence, ensuring seamless interoperability between SiriusXM’s proprietary systems and external ad tech partners, enabling scalable, data-driven buying experiences
• Collaborate across teams including go-to-market, design, engineering, QA, sales, ad operations, and finance to design, create, and launch ad buying platform features that deliver operational efficiencies, support revenue growth and deliver key results for org/company objectives

Requirements:

• 3-5 years software product management experience
• Very familiar with the tools and operational workflows of the digital and/or broadcast ad buying industries from pre-sale through post-sale including planning, trafficking, optimization, billing, and revenue recognition
• Experience using buy side or sell side ad systems, proprietary or 3rd party
• Experience working with engineering and QA teams in building and launching ad technology features end-to-end
• Strong analytical background and proficiency in assessing the value of features to inform roadmap priorities and being able to justify the approach to stakeholders
• Curiosity; you help uncover the 'why' for the challenges that are being investigated
• Determined; able to use unorthodox, non traditional approaches to get the job done
• Self-motivated; able to own projects and work independently with limited guidance
• A problem solver that thrives on solving complex business and technical issues
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills, confident and capable in bringing groups together, elicit feedback, and synthesize information into clear communications and action plans
• Takes direction from senior level IC PMs
• Must have a legal right to work in the U.S