MLB Streaming & Subscriptions 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. 

As the Manager, Advertising Technology, you will work in an agile setting alongside our sell-side ad tech team, world-class ad sales teams, product managers, principle engineers, and vendor teams to bring our incredible ad experiences to market. You will identify opportunities for improvement and innovation. You will surface issues and fix them. You will drive projects to completion, making sure everyone is moving forward, communicating well, and releasing as projected.

The successful candidate will work within the Ad Operations group, with a specific focus on digital display and video Advertising Technology. 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. 

Core 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.

• 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

Technology and Platforms

• Experience with Google Ad Manager strongly preferred, including work with the Google IMA SDK libraries

• Familiarity with Prebid/header bidding implementations and optimization

• Familiarity with order management systems and ad trafficking workflows is preferred

• Preferred experience liasoning 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 and Approach

• Potential candidates with  2 or more years of Ad Tech experience are preferred

• 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.

Per the NYC pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is $80,000 to $100,000.