Technical Project Manager (Programmatic Advertising / DSP Domain)

Type: Full-time (remote-friendly)
Team: 2–3 Developers, 1 QA (design support is ad-hoc; PM prepares product flows/wireframes)

About the Project

We’re building a lean, high-velocity product layer on top of one or more DSPs (Demand-Side Platform) to deliver intuitive reporting and creative management. The PM will translate raw DSP APIs and ad-tech concepts into clear user workflows and a clean UI, driving phased releases while fielding ongoing feature requests from business users.

What You’ll Do

• Own delivery end-to-end for a small, fast team: scope, plan, backlog, milestones, risk/issue tracking, and release management.
  
   
• Turn vague asks into shippable features (e.g., “reporting on creatives” → concrete metrics, dimensions, filters, drilldowns, and UI flows).
  
   
• Read and interpret DSP APIs (endpoints, schemas, quotas, rate limits), map fields to business concepts, and spot gaps vs. user needs.
  
   
• Design pragmatic solutions and workarounds when APIs don’t match UX (aggregation, caching, enrichment, or staged rollouts).
  
   
• Prepare mockups/flows in Figma (low/medium fidelity) to align devs and stakeholders; write crisp tickets/acceptance criteria.
  
   
• Benchmark competitors to propose parity/differentiators and inform a phased roadmap.
  
   
• Communicate with 3rd-party API providers to clarify edge cases, limits, and extension options.
  
   
• Partner tightly with developers to ensure implementation matches API realities; unblock quickly with clear decisions.
  
   
• Support client calls: explain current capabilities, constraints, and options; manage expectations and negotiate scope.
  
   
• Plan phased releases (alpha → beta → GA), define success metrics, and iterate from usage/feedback.
  
   

Must-Have Experience

• Programmatic advertising & DSPs: strong grasp of auctions, pacing, targeting, throttling, and core metrics/dimensions: impressions, clicks, CTR, CPM, CPC, CPA/conversions, viewability, win rate/bid rate, spend, eCPM/eCPC, frequency, reach, etc.
  
   
• Ad formats: image, video, native, expandable, VAST/VPAID tags, HTML5; how format affects measurement and availability in APIs.
  
   
• API & data fluency: able to read DSP API docs/JSON, map to user-facing concepts, and propose UI/UX that simplifies raw structures.
  
   
• Solution design with incomplete inputs: comfortable shaping features from sparse requirements and defending trade-offs.
  
   
• Operational agility: experience running short cycles, juggling inbox requests with a clear delivery plan; proven phased rollouts.
  
   
• Stakeholder communication: confident with engineers and external providers; clear, structured updates; scope/risk negotiation.
  
   

Nice to Have

• Hands-on with one or more DSPs (e.g., DV360, The Trade Desk, Xandr, Yahoo, Amazon Ads).
  
   
• Experience building reporting/analytics UIs (dimensions/measures, pivots, drilldowns, time series).
  
   
• Comfort with Postman/Insomnia, basics of SQL and JSON transformation, and API mocking tools.
  
   
• Familiarity with attribution, MRC viewability, brand safety, and privacy constraints (GDPR/CCPA/coppa).
  
   
• Prior work in small squads/startups shipping 0→1 and 1→N.