Product Manager, Ads – Live Ad Serving

Netflix

Product Manager in advertising space building infrastructure for Live events ad serving. Identifying management needs and collaborating with cross-functional teams for seamless delivery.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeLos Gatos • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $520,000 - $1,000,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify ads management and serving needs unique to Live events due to high unpredictability, massive traffic spikes, and simultaneous global delivery.
Take a holistic yield management approach across direct and indirect demand and supply channels, long-term commitments and real-time bidding.
Work with internal product and engineering stakeholders as well as external partners across both the Live Streaming and the Ads infrastructure teams to enable seamless ad delivery for our customers.
Manage products from concept to launch, delivering features iteratively to solve the business challenges before them.
Define how we will measure the success and effectiveness of our products, and drive the execution and continuous evaluation of those metrics.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in sales, ad operations, marketing, strategy, policy, finance, and legal to bring products to market and increase adoption.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms
Live advertising experience in either real-time bidding or ad serving domains.
Experience with yield optimization for a publisher across programmatic and direct sales channels, ideally with Live ad supply.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and derive actionable insights to drive product decisions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Experience collaborating with Insights, Design, Engineering, Data Science, and other Product Teams.
Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, with a strong ability to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Plans
Mental Health support
401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
Stock Option Program
Disability Programs
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Family-forming benefits
Life and Serious Injury Benefits
Paid leave of absence programs
Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementReal-time biddingAd servingYield optimizationData analysisMetrics evaluationPlatform scalingFeature deliveryCross-functional collaborationProgrammatic sales

Soft Skills

CommunicationLeadershipAdaptabilityAnalytical thinkingStakeholder influenceCollaborationProblem-solvingStrategic thinkingInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skills