By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalized than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com.
The role: Principal Product Manager, Ad Tech (Inventory Monetization)
Genius Sports is building the next generation of sports advertising where real-time sports data, fan signals, and immersive formats create entirely new monetization opportunities across live and digital experiences.
We are looking for a Principal product leader to own the inventory monetization product layer of our advertising platform. This role is responsible for transforming our owned & operated inventory and emerging ad formats into scalable, repeatable revenue through programmatic, deal-based, and direct monetization.
Key Responsibilities
You will act as the product owner of monetization systems across Genius Sports. Defining how inventory is structured, packaged, priced, sold, and automated across all advertising surfaces.
- Define and evolve Genius Sports’ inventory taxonomy and ad product catalog
- Standardize ad units, metadata, and schemas to enable scalable monetization.
- Drive supply enablement & automation
- Generative creative system: Enable advertisers to activate new formats at scale with minimal operational friction.
- Act as the horizontal monetization owner across several Genius Sports Product lines.
Position Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on:
- Ad tech platforms
- Programmatic marketplaces
- Ad serving/creative platforms
- Proven track record owning platform-level systems, not just feature roadmaps.
- Strong commercial instincts and comfort being accountable for revenue outcomes
- Ability to reason deeply about
- SSP / DSP architectures
- Inventory schemas and APIs
- Deal matching logic
- Measurement pipelines and attribution
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Systems thinker who can operate across multiple product teams.
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, and Leadership.
- Commercially opinionated, with the ability to say “no” in service of long-term scalability.
- Trusted partner to engineers and credible counterpart to revenue teams.
- Operates with a business-owner mindset.
The salary for this role is based on an annualized range of $200,000 - $250,000 USD. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location. Occasional travel may be required.
As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports.
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We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference. Learn more about our values and culture at Culture | Genius Sports.
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What We Do
Genius Sports is the layer between what happens on the field and how the world engages with it. Our solutions across the global sports ecosystem are underpinned by our next generation big data and artificial intelligence platform, GeniusIQ. By ingesting and computing multiple real-time data feeds, GeniusIQ powers a wide range of functions and applications across sports performance and officiation, fan engagement, advertising, and sports betting. Founded in 2001, Genius Sports is now one of the world’s largest sports technology companies, working with the likes of the NFL, NBA, EPL, FIBA, ESPN, Sky Sports, Flutter, DraftKings and 100s more. We're headquartered in New York and London, with offices in Los Angeles, Medellin, Tallinn, Sofia, Singapore, Lausanne, Manchester and Melbourne.
Why Work With Us
We are one team, being brave, driving change. Our company values help create a cohesive culture, where we think, feel and act like One Genius. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference, driving our vision to be everywhere in sports, redefining experiences through technology.
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