Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pandora, part of SiriusXM, is at the forefront of audio entertainment and advertising solutions. They are seeking a Product Manager to drive innovation and enhance the Ad Buying Experience across their platforms, focusing on streamlining workflows and integrating new business opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Track and anticipate market trends in ad technology, programmatic buying, and platform integrations to ensure SiriusXM Media’s Ad Buying Experience evolves ahead of customer and industry needs
- Translate stakeholder goals from Advertisers, SiriusXM Ad Revenue Organization, Ad Product Marketing, Finance, and Analytics into clear product requirements and actionable priorities that drive adoption, efficiency, and revenue growth
- Work with manager/teammates to help define and drive the product vision and roadmap for key components of SiriusXM Media’s ad buying buying ecosystem — including planning, campaign management, reporting, billing, and partner integrations — ensuring cohesive experiences across internal and third-party systems
- Leverage data and insights to guide product decisions, validate feature impact, and inform roadmap prioritization in alignment with broader business objectives
- Serve as the subject matter expert for your product area — articulating the what and why of key initiatives, writing detailed requirements, and driving clarity across technical and non-technical audiences
- Champion integration excellence, ensuring seamless interoperability between SiriusXM’s proprietary systems and external ad tech partners, enabling scalable, data-driven buying experiences
- Collaborate across teams including go-to-market, design, engineering, QA, sales, ad operations, and finance to design, create, and launch ad buying platform features that deliver operational efficiencies, support revenue growth and deliver key results for org/company objectives
Skills
- 3-5 years software product management experience
- Very familiar with the tools and operational workflows of the digital and/or broadcast ad buying industries from pre-sale through post-sale including planning, trafficking, optimization, billing, and revenue recognition
- Experience using buy side or sell side ad systems, proprietary or 3rd party
- Experience working with engineering and QA teams in building and launching ad technology features end-to-end
- Strong analytical background and proficiency in assessing the value of features to inform roadmap priorities and being able to justify the approach to stakeholders
- Curiosity; you help uncover the 'why' for the challenges that are being investigated
- Determined; able to use unorthodox, non traditional approaches to get the job done
- Self-motivated; able to own projects and work independently with limited guidance
- A problem solver that thrives on solving complex business and technical issues
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills, confident and capable in bringing groups together, elicit feedback, and synthesize information into clear communications and action plans
- Takes direction from senior level IC PMs
- Must have a legal right to work in the U.S
Benefits
- This role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives
Company Overview
Pandora is an ad-supported audio entertainment streaming marketplace that provides internet radio and recommendation services. It is a sub-organization of Sirius XM. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.pandora.com/.