Principal Product Manager, Ad Tech (Inventory Monetization)

Genius Sports • New York, NY

5h • $200,000 - $250,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalized than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com.
The role: Principal Product Manager, Ad Tech (Inventory Monetization)
Genius Sports is building the next generation of sports advertising where real-time sports data, fan signals, and immersive formats create entirely new monetization opportunities across live and digital experiences.
We are looking for a Principal product leader to own the inventory monetization product layer of our advertising platform. This role is responsible for transforming our owned & operated inventory and emerging ad formats into scalable, repeatable revenue through programmatic, deal-based, and direct monetization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on:
• Ad tech platforms
• Programmatic marketplaces
• Ad serving/creative platforms
• Proven track record owning platform-level systems, not just feature roadmaps.
• Strong commercial instincts and comfort being accountable for revenue outcomes
• Ability to reason deeply about
• SSP / DSP architectures
• Inventory schemas and APIs
• Deal matching logic
• Measurement pipelines and attribution
• Systems thinker who can operate across multiple product teams.
• Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, and Leadership.
• Commercially opinionated, with the ability to say “no” in service of long-term scalability.
• Trusted partner to engineers and credible counterpart to revenue teams.
• Operates with a business-owner mindset.

Responsibilities

• You will act as the product owner of monetization systems across Genius Sports. Defining how inventory is structured, packaged, priced, sold, and automated across all advertising surfaces.
• Define and evolve Genius Sports’ inventory taxonomy and ad product catalog
• Standardize ad units, metadata, and schemas to enable scalable monetization.
• Drive supply enablement & automation
• Generative creative system: Enable advertisers to activate new formats at scale with minimal operational friction.
• Act as the horizontal monetization owner across several Genius Sports Product lines.

Benefits

• As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career.
• We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed