Staff Product Manager

Location: Hybrid (2 days per week in office).

This role owns the vision strategy and business outcomes for the product that sits at the center of that problem. The MediaAlpha Exchange Demand Platform is how advertisers across auto home life personal finance and Medicare find bid on and win their ideal customers in real-time auctions for clicks calls and leads. Youll set the long-term direction for how advertisers build and run campaigns set bidding and pacing strategy integrate via API and measure whats actually driving conversion and LTV. Youll be fully accountable for the outcomes that strategy produces.

The core challenge: continue to expand and improve our demand-side platform that helps advertisers reduce customer-acquisition inefficiencies and grow LTV while still providing high ROI. Youll balance advertiser sophistication (granular controls custom bidding logic deep reporting) with approachability for teams who dont want to become ad-tech specialists to run complex campaigns that continue to yield high ROI for our customers.

This is an individual contributor role. Youll partner closely with engineering design data science product marketing and our demand sales and account management teams. Youll also mentor other product managers across the demand organization raising the bar for strategic thinking execution and product craft.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision strategy and multi-year roadmap for the Exchange Demand Platform translating advertiser needs marketplace dynamics and business goals into a clear long-term direction and prioritized roadmap.
• Be accountable for the platforms business outcomes by defining and optimizing the product capabilities and marketplace mechanisms that drive advertiser acquisition and retention campaign performance conversion lift LTV growth and marketplace margin.
• Own the advertiser experience end-to-end across self-serve and managed workflows serving carriers agents and performance marketers across all MediaAlpha verticals.
• Lead the evolution of bidding targeting and auction mechanics in partnership with data science and engineering to improve advertiser ROI and marketplace efficiency.
• Identify repeatable patterns across advertiser needs through discovery with advertisers account managers and sales and translate them into scalable productized solutions.
• Define the strategy guardrails and long-term direction for advertiser-facing APIs and integrations establishing principles that balance enterprise flexibility with standardized scalable platform capabilities.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering design data science and go-to-market teams ensuring coordinated execution against product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Ensure product requirements and specifications provide clear context and direction for engineering and design execution.
• Partner with product marketing sales and customer success to support successful go-to-market planning and launches.
• Establish and leverage product success metrics to evaluate performance and inform roadmap decisions.
• Leverage advanced AI tools to accelerate strategy development requirement definition and rapid prototyping across the product lifecycle.
• Mentor other product managers and elevate product craft strategic thinking and execution standards across the team.
• Communicate product strategy progress and trade-offs to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7 years of product management experience with at least 2 years at the Staff level.
• Proven ownership of product vision strategy and measurable business outcomes for a complex SaaS or enterprise product area ideally spanning both self-serve and managed workflows.
• Track record of shipping complex multi-stakeholder products iteratively and measuring their impact on real business outcomes.
• Strong data-product instincts: youve worked with auction mechanics bid optimization performance analytics or marketplace economics and you can reason about trade-offs with engineering and data science.
• Strong UX instincts for enterprise software: you believe advertiser tools should be intuitive not just powerful and you push for smart defaults with granular overrides.
• Ability to balance competing needs across advertisers internal go-to-market teams and engineering and distill them into a coherent sequenced roadmap.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting strategy to senior leadership and external advertiser partners.
• Positive can-do attitude and willingness to work in a fast-moving environment rolling up your sleeves to get things done.

Nice to Have

We value strong general PM craft over specific domain familiarity. However let us know if you have experience in any of these areas/fields:

• Ad-tech performance marketing or programmatic advertising especially in marketplaces or exchanges.
• Real-time bidding (RTB) auction design or bid optimization systems.
• Lead generation call marketplaces or click-based performance products.
• Insurance personal finance or Medicare verticals.
• Campaign management tools DSPs or advertiser-facing reporting and analytics platforms.
• Enterprise APIs and integration-heavy products.

Compensation & Benefits
We are excited to offer a competitive base pay range of $140000 to $165000 per year for this position based on experience and qualifications. But thats not all - as a valued member of our team you will also have access to an array of top-notch benefits including:
Annual bonus program and participation in our Restricted Stock Unit program
100% Employer-paid health dental and vision insurance for you your dependents and spouse or registered domestic partner
100% Employer paid long term disability and life insurance
401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions to help you plan for your future
Open Paid Time Off policy with a birthday day off 13 holidays and 5 Recharge days
Professional development reimbursement
Cell Phone Wellness and Internet expense reimbursement along with a subscription to the Calm App
100% fully paid parental leave for team members up to 22 weeks for the primary caregiver and 12 weeks for the secondary caregiver
Dog-friendly offices (LA and AZ) along with a $300 pet adoption reimbursement

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

MediaAlpha is committed to fostering cultivating and maintaining a culture of diversity equity and inclusion. Our philosophy and actions are built on the premise that as an employer and citizens of our communities we can create opportunities for lasting change.

Fair Chance

MediaAlpha will consider qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with state and local Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans in our application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at or .