We9re looking for a Director of Product Management, Adtech who will lead the development of AI-driven and agentic experiences within The Machine9s media and adtech portfolio, translating complex data capabilities into intuitive, high-impact tools for media, strategy, and marketing teams. This role sits at the convergence of AI orchestration, adtech, product design, and workflow innovation, turning conceptual use cases into scalable, production-ready systems.
You will own high-leverage experiments, shape how users interact with generative and reasoning models across the media lifecycle - planning, optimization, trafficking, measurement, and reporting - and help define The Machine9s next generation of features for the vertical. The ideal candidate combines fluency in AI systems and the adtech ecosystem, a sharp product sense, and comfort bridging strategy and engineering.
Our engineers are AI native and engage in and advance the state of the art in the practice of software development flow with AI.
WHAT YOU9LL DO- Lead the roadmap for AI and agentic functionality across The Machine9s media and adtech ecosystem
- Identify opportunities for generative and reasoning-based workflows that drive measurable efficiency or performance gains across media planning, optimization, and measurement
- Translate broad problem spaces into concrete feature sets, prototypes, and launch plans
- Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and UX to prioritize features and deliver fast, iterative experiments
- Rapidly prototype LLM-based agents, copilots, and data-interactive interfaces using sandbox environments and internal frameworks
- Define success metrics, run experiments, and evaluate performance to inform production decisions
- Partner with the Machine9s AI architecture and FDE teams to ensure scalable, secure deployments
- Act as a connective hub between technical, media, and creative stakeholders across Stagwell
- Present prototypes, findings, and roadmaps clearly to leadership and partner teams
- Support cross-functional initiatives like client demos, internal rollouts, and pilot launches
WHAT YOU9LL NEED- Significant product management experience, including a track record of leadership, with LLM-based products and using AI prototyping tools
- AI-native professional skills (you build/prototype/scaffold your approach to work using AI tooling)
- Deep domain expertise in media and adtech: ad platforms, measurement methods (MMM/MTA, incrementality), DCO, and campaign tracking and trafficking
- Technical fluency in AI tooling and architecture: APIs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks (LangChain, etc.)
- Comfort with ambiguity, fast iteration, and experimentation-heavy environments - we ship daily
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with the media agency world is a plus
The base compensation range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000 and spans multiple levels. We9re open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate9s experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.
