Senior Product Manager - Ads
Bengaluru
Product – Product Management /
Full Time /
On-site
JOB SUMMARY:
As a Senior Product Manager, collaborate closely with senior leaders to shape a dynamic product strategy that drives ads, business, and product objectives. This role involves innovating and defining success of JioHotstar ad campaigns to the advertiser and measuring these key success outcomes. This role will involve working with business, tech, analytics stakeholders internally and also external partners to validate and certify the outcomes. Data and measurement is at the heart of advertising - this role will be critical in driving a step function growth in our advertising revenues as we expand the horizons of OTT advertising.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
JioStar’s Ad Platform is among the top video advertising platforms in India - and we’re aiming higher. With deep expertise across Video-On-Demand, Live Sports, and Ad Monetization, our vision is to build the most effective and scalable adtech ecosystem in the world. Our engineering team builds across the full adtech stack - from high-throughput backend services to deeply integrated, high-impact ad experiences on client platforms. Name a technology, and chances are we’ve worked with it. But more than the tools, it’s the problems we solve that make the work exciting. If you’re excited about building fast, learning continuously, and working on a product that sits at the center of content, monetization, and user experience, we’d love to talk.
REPORTING TO: Senior Group Product Manager
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct thorough research and analysis to generate actionable insights and determine ROI
- Translate abstract problem statements into clear requirements by assessing market trends and shifts
- Influence roadmaps within and outside the functional area to enhance the overall ecosystem
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, contributing to roadmaps and prioritization beyond the immediate domain
- Show agility in responding to external signals, enabling swift roadmap adjustments, and ensuring transparent communication of impacts
- Take ownership of at least one key KPI that directly aligns with Product Objectives and Key Results
- Develop deep expertise in at least one functional area, driving strategic advancements through innovation and transformation
- Actively participate in team-building initiatives, including contributing to hiring processes
SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS:
- Communicate clearly and effectively, with precise articulation and logical progression of ideas
- Apply structured frameworks and logical thinking to address complex problems, asking the right questions for deeper understanding
- Demonstrate a diverse range of ideas and prioritize effectively, focusing on the impact of decisions
- Leverage a data-driven mindset to derive insights from metrics and make well-informed product decisions
- Show strong user empathy, using structured problem-solving to address pain points through hypothesis-building and solution development
- Benchmark competitors and validate findings through experimentation, maintaining high standards for product roadmap inclusion
- Confidently tackle ambiguous problems with minimal supervision, taking decisive action across the organization
- Foster a collaborative, respectful work environment, open to feedback, while mentoring junior PMs to success and effectively influencing without formal authority
PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent preferred. Overall 4-6 years of experience in building scalable consumer products
About Us
Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.
JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.
