Associate Director, Product Management - AI and Agentic Platform

PubMatic; Maharashtra; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Broadband reimbursement

Catered lunches and office snacks

Job summary

PubMatic is seeking a highly technical Product Manager to lead the Agentic Platform and AI strategy. You will own the foundational capabilities for rapid building, evaluating, deploying, and operating production-grade AI agents, and guide strategic customer-facing AI experiences across PubMatic.

You will partner with engineering, design, and commercial teams to translate emerging AI capabilities into scalable products, with impact on customers and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent required.
• 6–8+ years of Product Management experience with 1–2 years in technically complex Agentic platforms.
• Experience taking ambiguous, zero-to-one AI products from concept to production with measurable adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for PubMatic's AI and Agentic Platform.
• Own platform capabilities including orchestration, model/tool integration, knowledge management, and observability.
• Lead publisher- and marketplace-facing AI experiences transforming data into actionable intelligence.
• Define success metrics across AI quality, adoption, impact, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Build evaluation methodologies combining offline data, datasets, LLM eval, human review, experiments, and telemetry.
• Own the full product lifecycle from identification to iteration and adoption.

Skills

AI architecture

LLMs & reasoning

RAG & knowledge systems

Agent orchestration

AI evaluation & experimentation

Prompt & context engineering

Observability & monitoring

Cross-functional leadership

Production deployment

Metrics & analytics

strong communication

Advertising tech experience

Governance & explainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

MCP standards

Job description

About The Role

PubMatic is building the next generation of AI-powered products for digital advertising, including intelligent agents that help customers monitor marketplace performance, identify new opportunities, troubleshoot issues, make recommendations, and ultimately take action. We are looking for a highly technical and customer-oriented Product Manager to lead our Agentic Platform and AI strategy. This role will own the foundational capabilities that enable teams across PubMatic to rapidly build, evaluate, deploy, and operate production-grade AI agents, while also leading development of strategic customer-facing AI experiences. You will work at the intersection of Generative AI, agentic systems, advertising technology, data, and product experience, partnering closely with engineering, 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 shared AI and Agentic Platform, enabling teams across the company to build and operate production-grade AI agents.
• Own platform capabilities including agent 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 across AI 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, and production telemetry.
• 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, including 1-2 years of hands-on experience leading technically complex Agentic platforms and building AI agents in production.
• Strong understanding of modern AI application architecture, including concepts such as:
• LLMs and reasoning models
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation and knowledge systems
• Agent orchestration and tool use
• AI evaluation and experimentation
• Prompt and context engineering
• 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

• 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.