Director, Ad Product - Programmatic_

**Overview**Audacy is looking for an experienced **Ad Product Manager** to join our team, and help us build the future of **programmatic advertising and new, innovative ad product capabilities** for our fast growing cross-platform audio business. Our team serves as the connective tissue between our sales, operations, and technical teams, and we are looking for results-oriented team players that can help us accelerate our roadmap of critical advertising capabilities.This role will be hybrid (3 days per week) in either our New York or Philadelphia market.**Responsibilities****What You'll Do:**+ Own the roadmap for development and delivery of Audacy’s programmatic and ad product offerings, including:+ Partnering closely with Sales to understand their needs in the marketplace, and translate those into product requirements for both internal and external technical stakeholders.+ Work closely with our internal ad tech and platforms team to create business cases and product requirements that can be executed by our technical platform partners and engineering teams.+ Monitor status of our development initiatives, and actively participate in solutioning with technical teams, bringing a business perspective to these scenarios.+ Work in partnership with internal business partners to develop business cases for new products and capabilities. Actively participate in the process to prioritize projects based on business needs / opportunity and resource requirements.+ Evaluate and identify external vendor solutions that bring innovative capabilities to our advertising business. Develop strong working relationships with key partners to ensure stable performance and business results.+ Work with our sales enablement teams to create GTM strategies and materials that clearly communicate the detailed capabilities and limitations of products, both live and in development. Establish thoughtful policies that balance opportunity for revenue capture with ability to execute efficiently and effectively.+ Identify opportunities to streamline processes and automate workflows to drive efficiencies within Audacy’s advertising operations.+ Understand and monitor the competitive landscape of the audio industry.+ Support the ad products and tech organization in the establishment and refinement of processes to properly govern and communicate our roadmaps within the organization.**Qualifications****Required and Preferred:**+ 8+ years leading ad product management, delivering on objectives/outcomes+ Cross-functional leader / collaborative: Audacy is a highly matrixed organization, and ability to navigate and drive results from cross-functional teams is critical.+ Curious: Industry is rapidly changing and we are solving hard problems, be curious and open to new ideas and solutions.+ Results focused: our team needs to build and establish trust with our stakeholders, we must clearly set expectations and deliver against them.**Additional Information****Pay Transparency:**The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is$180,000 - 200,000 annually. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.**Important Notes:**Please be aware that Audacy will **never** ask you to send money at any point during the hiring process. Communication from legitimate Audacy representatives will **only come from email addresses ending in @audacy.com** . If you receive any suspicious requests or communications, please verify their authenticity before responding.**About Us**_Audacy, Inc. is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company that connects with 200 million consumers. Powered by its exclusive, premium audio content that includes unrivaled leadership positions in news and sports radio, Audacy operates one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups, a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer digital audio platform, multiple audio networks, a major event business and a leading, award-winning podcast studio. Learn more at_ _www.audacyinc.com_ _, Facebook (acebook.com/audacycorp) , X (om/AudacyCorp) , LinkedIn (inkedin.com/company/audacy-inc) and Instagram (nstagram.com/lifeataudacy/) ._**EEO**_Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis._**Job Locations** _USA-NY-New York | USA-PA-Philadelphia_**ID** _2024-6907_**Category** _Business Dev / Sales_**Type** _Regular_