Lead Product Manager

Paramount

Lead Product Manager overseeing ad delivery team and managing ad insertion functionalities at Paramount. Ensuring efficient ad serving and collaborating with various teams and partners.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Be a member of the Ad Delivery team which oversees critical Ad and In-Stream Insertion functionality
Request/receive ads from ad servers, transcoding creatives, internal reporting metrics, and troubleshooting and analysis tools
Interface with external partners (content and distribution), as well as internal teams
Ensure seamless end-to-end insertion of advertising and user-facing elements
Create and manage a roadmap covering areas of system and feature ownership
Define how ads move from decision response to playback
Partner with engineering on HLS and DASH manifest manipulation, ad stitching, and cue point precision
Take ownership of VAST and VMAP execution
Define ad break and pod behavior
Oversee existing Operational Tools and plan improvements

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience owning a product feature roadmap
3+ years working specifically with an ad delivery system, including interacting with user-facing apps and ad-decision systems
Extensive knowledge of SSAI, ad request structures, E2E request/response processes, VMAP/VAST, and general ad server functionality
Some proficiency with ad beacons, structure, and firing methodologies
Some proficiency with advertising-focused reporting (i.e. render rates, fill rates, errors)
Bachelor’s degree
Adept at tailoring communications depending on the circumstance, whether the audience is technical, non-technical, or executive.
Intellectual curiosity and passion for identifying key problems that are faced by the business, by the market and by current technologies.
Track record of results when working collaboratively and being dependent on others.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k) plan
life insurance coverage
disability benefits
tuition assistance program
PTO
bonus eligible

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Hard Skills & Tools

ad delivery systemproduct feature roadmapSSAIVMAPVASTad request structuresE2E request/response processesad beaconsadvertising-focused reportingad stitching

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationintellectual curiosityproblem-solvingadaptability

Certifications

Bachelor's degree