As a member of Vungle’s Product team, you will work across the company and the broader ecosystem to identify opportunities and create new products and services. You will possess an understanding of the advertising and mobile applications landscape, knowledge of the gaming and ad tech industry, competitive offerings, and customer needs, and leverage qualitative and quantitative data to support feature prioritization and positioning. You are detail-oriented and will work to ensure that your products exceed the highest standards of customer experience, technical precision, scalability, and profitability.

You possess a strong background in product management, product development, and have the ability to communicate, coordinate, as well as influence a range of stakeholders including executive management, engineering, and business development teams.

The Senior Product Manager, SDK is responsible for Vungle’s SDK product across all mobile platforms which is used by developers at top mobile gaming and entertainment companies worldwide.

This role can be based either out of Vungle’s San Francisco headquarters at beautiful Levi Plaza, our Los Angeles office in vibrant Sawtelle, or our new and growing New York City office.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall lifecycle of Vungle’s SDK product on Android, iOS, and Windows platforms - defining, documenting (PRDs), prioritizing, and communicating product and customer requirements, and working closely with engineering to deliver best in class products
• Work closely with platform teams to align strategies between ad serving, data, and creative teams. 
• Work closely with our Solutions Engineering team, publisher sales team, and developers to gather and incorporate feedback. 
• Manage and prioritize backlog to maintain the highest quality and efficiency of releases. 
• Perform competitive feature analysis with other ad network SDK offerings.
• Quantitatively and qualitatively measure network traffic and usage to measure the success of your products.
• Ensure your cross-functional product squad is prepared to deliver features on time and with measurable value.
• Establish measurable product objectives that align with the organization’s product strategy and outcomes.
• Communicate regularly across stakeholders, product squads, customers, and executive leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years’ experience managing a technical product and/or mobile applications
• Comfortable with UI-less software and able to learn and understand systems by studying them.
• Understanding of software architecture, design, and documentation, with an emphasis on driving toward a high-quality developer experience.
• Familiar with the benefits of instrumentation and analytics for the purpose of designing better products for our customers and players.
• Driven to reach consensus among multiple stakeholders and customers.
• Experience leading multiple simultaneous projects through the full software development life cycle.
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. Comfortable giving presentations to large groups and senior management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering or relevant experience.
• Previous software engineering experience, especially in SDKs and APIs. 
• Ability to define a compelling product, path to market, and then evangelize that vision internally and externally
• Experience with business case development and scenario planning

About Vungle:

Vungle is the trusted guide for growth and engagement, transforming how people discover and experience apps. Mobile application developers partner with Vungle to monetize their apps through innovative in-app ad experiences that are inspired by insight and crafted with creativity. Advertisers depend on Vungle to reach, acquire, and retain high-value users worldwide. Vungle’s data-optimized ads run on over 1 billion unique devices to drive engagement and increase returns for publishers and advertisers ranging from indie studios to powerhouse brands. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices around the world in London, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, and Helsinki. 

For more information, visit www.vungle.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Vungle does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Vungle vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Vungle Recruiting Team and such candidate was submitted to the Vungle Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

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