The Major League Baseball Streaming & Subscriptions team is looking for a Manager, Advertising Technology who is passionate about building, maintaining, and enhancing some of the most sophisticated advertising products and services in professional sports.
MLB’s ad product library spans browser-based display and video products, iOS and Android apps, and dynamic ad insertion for linear streaming CTV platforms. A successful Manager will have a proven track record of managing ad product requirements in the creation of world-class advertising products. The role requires experience working “under the hood” with digital ads on web sites and apps. A solid understanding of digital ad workflows – and how product capabilities are operationalized will have you working side-by-side with both ad trafficking and yield and monetization teams. Integrating SDKs and APIs should be second nature. Testing, de-bugging, and troubleshooting with development teams, confirming ad products are properly integrated, and defining success criteria for ad product releases are a key part of the role.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with ad product owners, engineers/developers, vendor representatives, content product owners, and sales executives to distill technical requirements into easily actionable user stories or specifications
- Manage vendor relationships, Statement of Work creation, and invoicing issues
- Work on projects from initial scoping to launch
- Work with project managers and technical project managers to make sure internal and external project dependencies are properly tracked
- Manage project communications across multiple initiatives, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables to internal and external stakeholders
- Identify, analyze, and communicate project risks
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish team velocity and release cycles
- Track and record progress on multiple initiatives, provide status updates, identify key dependencies and blockers, and work to resolve issues as they arrive
- Identify and communicate key performance indicators for your teams
- Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development iterations throughout the life of your assigned projects, which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience with Google Ad Manager strongly preferred, including work with the Google GPT and IMA SDK libraries
- Familiarity with Prebid/header bidding implementations and optimization
- Familiarity with order management systems and ad trafficking workflows is preferred
- Preferred experience liaising with software engineering teams (Web, Mobile App, Connected Devices etc.)
- Preferred experience with Digital Advertising products and platforms, including live streaming products (Google Ad Manager, dynamic ad insertion platforms)
- Demonstrable understanding of Web & Mobile App development
- Preferred experience with data management platforms (Adobe), and identity solution providers
- Experience with Engineering Projects
- Familiarity with digital advertising
- Highest consideration given to candidates with publisher/sell-side experience who are familiar with live event digital ad insertion
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
- Effectively communicates with both technical and non-technical participants
- Enjoys understanding details and complex interactions and distilling them into their simplest components
- Passionate about continually improving processes
- Passionate about making teams as successful as possible
Pay Range: $85,000- $97,500
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills and any other factors Major League Baseball (MLB) considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.
Top MLB Perks & Benefits
- 100% Employer Paid Medical/Dental/Vision Premiums
- Company Contributed 401k Plan
- Paid Time off and Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
- Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Why MLB?
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
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