FreeWheel, a Comcast company

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

FreeWheel is looking for a Senior Product Manager to develop and deliver on a market-informed roadmap and strategy for a wide array of buy-side capabilities, with a focus on our application products (APIs and UIs). You’ll immerse yourself in the Connected TV (CTV) market to make us the best platform in the world to buy CTV advertising. Working alongside colleagues throughout Comcast, you’ll deliver innovative products that help customers better deliver their ads to the right audiences worldwide.

Job Description

This role will work on the Buyer Cloud (fka Beeswax) buying platform within the FreeWheel product suite. Buyer Cloud's driving vision is to be the best platform in the world for buying CTV advertising. Buyer Cloud is an easy-to-use, massively scaled, high-availability and highly flexible platform used by buyers worldwide. We offer our customers the most extensible and transparent advertising platform in the world and process millions of transactions per second.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to develop and deliver on a market-informed roadmap and strategy for a wide array of buy-side capabilities. You’ll immerse yourself in the Connected TV market to make us the best platform in the world to buy CTV advertising. Working alongside colleagues throughout Comcast, you’ll deliver innovative products that help customers better deliver their ads to the right audiences worldwide.

Required Skills: Programmatic Advertising; Advertising Agency; Product Management; Advertising Technologies

What You'll Do:

• Lead the conception, design, and implementation of key capabilities that offer our customers unique opportunities to buy CTV advertising.

• Collaborate closely with our engineering team to guide products to launch and beyond

• Work with all essential stakeholders, internal and external, to achieve high-quality decisions and outcomes

• Showcase your product launches in release trainings, client emails, and company webinars

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally on the buy-side of advertising products.

• A deep familiarity and passion for building and scaling flexible APIs

• Familiarity with Connected TV and television advertising, and real time bidding platforms.

• Expertise in understanding customer needs and synthesizing them into successful product initiatives.

• Substantial experience working directly with stakeholders in engineering

• Demonstrable track record of taking product initiatives through the full lifecycle.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communications style based on your audience.

Responsibilities:

• Representing the Voice of the Customer throughout the product lifecycle to guide product development and strategy

• Conducting market research and competitor analysis to inform strategic product positioning and direction

• Collaborating with product development teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality products within timelines

• Participating in strategic planning for product enhancements, including content, pricing, packaging, and feature sets

• Assisting in the financial management of products, analyzing budget variances to identify performance opportunities and risks

• Communicating market trends, opportunities, and risks, developing and advocating for product feature sets and benefits

• Performing feasibility assessments and capability gap analyses to align product offerings with market capabilities and demands

• Leading cross-functional teams in the development and execution of product strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals

• Recommending process, product, or service improvements by anticipating business challenges and regulatory issues

• Contributing to the organization's strategy development, leveraging in-depth expertise to influence product direction and decisions

• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

• Drive results and growth.

• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.

• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

• API Development

• Client Facing

• Product Management

• Programmatic Advertising

• Real-Time Bidding (RTB)

Compensation

New York Pay Range: $147,741.60 - $221,612.40

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +