Associate Director, Product Management - AI and Agentic Platform

PubMatic; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

PubMatic is recruiting a senior Product Manager to lead the Agentic Platform and AI strategy. You will own the foundational capabilities enabling teams to build, evaluate, deploy, and operate production-grade AI agents, while shaping strategic customer-facing AI experiences.

You will partner with engineering, design, and commercial teams to turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into scalable products that drive measurable outcomes for publishers, marketplaces, and advertisers.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years in Product Management with 1–2 years leading technically complex Agentic platform projects.
• Strong understanding of modern AI app architecture: LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, AI evaluation, prompts and context engineering.
• Experience partnering with engineering/AI teams and making thoughtful trade-offs.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous concepts to production with measurable adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy and roadmap for PubMatic's AI Agentic Platform.
• Own platform capabilities: orchestration, model/tool integration, knowledge management, evaluation, observability and governance.
• Lead publisher- and marketplace-facing AI experiences that transform data into actionable intelligence.
• Define success metrics for AI quality, adoption, reliability, latency and cost.
• Develop evaluation methodologies: offline, golden datasets, LLM evaluation, human review, experimentation, telemetry.
• Oversee end-to-end product lifecycle from opportunity through launch and iteration.

Skills

Product management

AI systems

Analytical skills

Stakeholder communication

Advertising tech awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

About the Role

PubMatic is building the next generation of AI-powered products for digital advertising, including intelligent agents that help customersmonitormarketplace performance,identifynew opportunities, troubleshoot issues, make recommendations, andultimatelytakeaction. We are looking for a highly technical and customer-oriented Product Manager to lead ourAgentic Platform andAI strategy. This role will own the foundational capabilities that enable teams across PubMatic to rapidly build, evaluate, deploy, andoperateproduction-grade AI agents, while also leading development of strategic customer-facing AI experiences.You will work at the intersection ofGenerative AI, agentic systems, advertising technology, data, and product experience, partnering closely withengineering, design, and commercial teams to turn emerging AI capabilities into scalable products that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

What You'll Do:

• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for PubMatic's sharedAI and Agentic Platform, enabling teams across the company to build andoperateproduction-grade AI agents.
• Own platform capabilities includingagent orchestration, model and tool integration, context and knowledge management, evaluation frameworks, observability, governance, and reusable agent infrastructure.
• Lead the strategy and development of publisher- and marketplace-facing AI experiences that transform complex marketplace data into actionable intelligence.
• Define clear success metrics acrossAI quality, customer adoption, task completion, business impact, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Build rigorous evaluation methodologies combining offline evaluation, golden datasets, LLM-based evaluation, human review, experimentation, andproductiontelemetry.
• Own the full product lifecycle from opportunity identification and product strategy through requirements, experimentation, launch, adoption, measurement, and iteration.

We'd Love for You to Have:

• 6 to 8+ years of Product Management experience, including1-2 yearsof hands-on experience leadingtechnically complexAgenticplatformsand building AI agentsin production.
• Strong understanding of modern AI application architecture, including concepts such as:
  1. LLMs and reasoning models
  2. Retrieval-Augmented Generation and knowledge systems
  3. Agent orchestration and tool use
  4. AI evaluation and experimentation
  5. Prompt and context engineering
  6.Observability and production monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to partner deeply with engineering and AI teams, making thoughtful products and technical trade-offs.
• Experience taking ambiguous, zero-to-one products from concept through production and measurable adoption.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to define metrics and evaluation frameworks for probabilistic AI systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical teams, customers, and senior leadership.
• Experience with advertising technology, programmatic advertising, and marketplaces is preferred.
• Experience building enterprise AI products where reliability, governance, privacy, security, and explainability are critical.
• Familiarity with agent interoperability standards and architectures such as MCP, agent-to-agent communication, structured tool calling, and multi-agent systems.

Qualification:

Should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or an equivalent degree from a well-known institute/university.

Return to Office

PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.

Benefits

• Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!

Diversity and Inclusion

PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About PubMatic

PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.

Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.