Manager, Inventory & Channel Program

What you'll do

• Partner with Channel Leads to evaluate opportunities across programmatic channels initially, with the framework extending over time to adjacent marketing channels and cross-channel initiatives
• Quantify expected business impact, including revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk reduction, customer adoption, and long-term strategic value
• Build and validate business cases for major roadmap opportunities and investment decisions
• Standardize prioritization inputs across channels, including impact, confidence, urgency, and investment requirements
• Maintain a portfolio-level view of inventory and channel opportunities, tradeoffs, assumptions, and prioritization rationale
• Support quarterly channel investment reviews and leadership roadmap discussions
• Identify gaps, overlaps, double-counting, or weak assumptions in investment recommendations
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, GTM, Partnerships, and Operations to ensure roadmap decisions are grounded in business outcomes and execution reality
• Help translate ambiguous business problems into clear decision frameworks, options, and recommendations
• Track whether completed initiatives achieved expected outcomes and feed learnings back into future prioritization

Requirements

• Experience in technology, product strategy, business operations, product operations, strategic finance, consulting, product management, or a related function
• Strong ability to quantify business impact, assess tradeoffs, and evaluate investment opportunities
• Experience supporting roadmap prioritization, portfolio planning, business case development, or resource allocation decisions
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with comfort working through ambiguity and imperfect data
• Ability to partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, GTM, Finance, Partnerships, and leadership stakeholders
• Strong structured problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and option assessment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex tradeoffs for leadership audiences
• Ability to influence without direct ownership of execution
• Strong business judgment and product intuition
• Nice to Have: MBA or equivalent business strategy experience
• Nice to Have: Experience in ad tech, martech, marketplace businesses, platforms, or B2B SaaS
• Nice to Have: Experience with pricing, monetization, marketplace efficiency, channel strategy, or product portfolio management
• Nice to Have: Familiarity with programmatic advertising, inventory quality, supply integrations, media channel operations, or multi-channel marketing products

Benefits