Senior Director - Product Management

Overview

Senior Director of Product Management for Ads at JioStar, owning the product vision, roadmap and execution for the evolution of the Ads platform and leading a team of product managers.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the strategic vision and multi-quarter roadmap for key adtech domain capabilities, aligned to JioStar's monetization goals.
• Take full ownership of complex, ambiguous problem statements in the ad platform, translating them into clear product requirements and executing against tight delivery timelines.
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers, fostering technical excellence, data-driven decision-making and high ownership.
• Partner with engineering to architect scalable, high-throughput ad serving, targeting or yield management systems capable of handling massive live-event concurrent traffic.
• Work closely with commercial sales, ad operations, engineering and design teams to integrate user experience and business yield.
• Leverage analytics, market insights and data science (A/B testing, ML models) to optimize ad inventory, targeting precision and platform performance.
• Collaborate with ad sales and product marketing teams to package new ad formats and capabilities for advertisers and drive market adoption.
• Present product updates, performance metrics and strategic direction to senior executive leadership across the JioStar ecosystem.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party adtech vendors, programmatic demand platforms and measurement partners.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with 11+ years of product management experience in the consumer technology sector, including 3 years in a leadership role.
• Experience building scalable adtech, martech or consumer technology companies.
• Strong background in hiring, leading and mentoring high-performing product management teams.
• Excellence at prioritizing quarterly roadmaps and executing with results.
• Proficiency in data-driven decision-making and leveraging data effectively.
• Expertise in enhancing experiences across diverse platforms and regions, driving consumer acquisition and retention.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills for driving impactful outcomes.

Nice to have

• Expertise in deep technical systems and generative AI.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru (We Work).
• Collaboration with engineering on design and architecture.