Product Manager - Bidder and Forecasting

The role

This technical Product Manager will manage bidding and forecasting systems within an ad tech platform. The role focuses on ensuring bid behavior and forecast output are consistent to align quoted numbers with delivered results.

What you will do

• Define bidding and forecasting roadmaps.
• Set standards for evaluating auction and pricing decisions.
• Own bid logic, bid shading, and pacing across CTV, video, display, and audio.
• Maintain consistency between bid behavior and forecast output.
• Own avails, reach, and frequency forecasting.
• Own models for bid optimization, dynamic floor pricing, and forecast generation.
• Write technical requirements for the bidder engineering team.
• Trace delivery shortfalls across forecast, bid, and supply.
• Partner with Engineering, Ad Operations, Planning, Sales, Publisher Partnerships, and Program Management.

Required qualifications

• Auction mechanics including first and second price dynamics, bid shading, and pacing.
• OpenRTB and supply path economics.
• Forecasting methods.
• SQL and log analysis.
• 5+ years of product management, with at least 3 at a DSP, SSP, exchange, or bidder.
• Hands-on technical work in at least one of CTV, video, or display.
• Shipped a change to a bidding or forecasting model and designed the test to prove it worked.
• Diagnosed a delivery shortfall to root cause across forecast, bid, and supply.
• Shipped a product surface with a model behind it.

Nice to have

• Inventory quality and sell-side yield strategy
• Audio

Benefits

• Two medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
• Dental and eye care coverage
• Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) with up to 100% match on the first 4% of pay
• Nine free virtual doctor's appointments through Teladoc
• 12 free annual therapy sessions through Spring Health
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year

About the company

TEGNA Inc. is a leading local media company that helps people thrive in their local communities by providing trusted local news and services. It reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television.