Lead Product Manager

Paramount

Lead Product Manager managing ad delivery systems for Paramount's streaming services. Ensuring seamless ad insertion and collaborating across engineering and content systems teams.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeBurbank • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $146,160 - $219,240 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You’ll be a member of the Ad Delivery team which oversees critical Ad and In-Stream Insertion functionality, including requesting/receiving ads from ad servers, transcoding creatives, internal reporting metrics, and troubleshooting and analysis tools.
Interface with various external partners (content and distribution), as well as internal teams (Engineering, Ad Operations, Project Management, Content Systems, and various stakeholders).
Serve an important role in ensuring seamless end-to-end insertion of advertising and other user-facing elements into our hundreds of available streams.
Create and manage a roadmap covering your areas of system and feature ownership.
Execute the roadmap under general supervision by the Vice President overseeing Ad Delivery.
Own SSAI across both FAST and VOD as the primary ad serving system, not just a component of delivery.
Define how ads move from decision response to playback, ensuring selected ads consistently render without gaps or failures.
Partner with engineering on HLS and DASH manifest manipulation, ad stitching, and cue point precision.
Take full ownership of VAST and VMAP execution, including wrapper resolution, timeout handling, pre-validation of creatives, and ad request construction.
Define ad break and pod behavior, including sequencing, completion, and fallback when ads are missing or invalid.
Ownership of Ads transcoding process to continually improve efficiency and reduce errors, with an eye on cost savings through storage enhancements.
Define and own beaconing and measurement expectations across quartiles, ad breaks, and completion.
Build observability into the system so we can clearly diagnose render failures across partners, devices, and creatives.
Focus on real system outcomes like render rate, error reduction, timing accuracy, and ad break completion.
Oversee existing Operational Tools and plan improvements and future tools. Future features, such as developing an Ads SDK, A/B testing framework, and other in-stream insertion capabilities.

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 or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement

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Hard Skills & Tools

SSAIad request structuresE2E request/response processesVMAPVASTad beaconsadvertising-focused reportingad stitchingcue point precisiontranscoding

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingintellectual curiosityadaptability