Product Manager, Bid & Forecasting for Ad Tech

TEGNA; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision

401(k) with match

Teladoc access

Therapy sessions

Job summary

TEGNA, a leading local media company in Tysons, VA, is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own bidding and forecasting systems across its ad-tech platform. You will align bid logic, forecasting, and planning to deliver on campaigns with national scale and local execution.

Five-plus years in product management, hands-on work in DSP/SSP environments, and experience shipping bid or forecasting model changes are highly valued. This role offers robust benefits and a clear path to impact.

Qualifications

• Auction mechanics: first and second price dynamics, bid shading, and pacing.
• OpenRTB and supply path economics, including what a bid request costs to process.
• Forecasting methods, and the reasons a forecast diverges from delivery.
• SQL and log analysis, enough to answer a delivery question without opening a ticket.
• Inventory quality and sell-side yield strategy are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Bid logic ownership across CTV, video, display, and audio.
• Tie-out: keep bid behavior and forecast output consistent.
• Avails, reach, and frequency forecasting for standard and custom targeting.
• Planning and execution: give planners and traders a number to commit to.
• Applied AI: own models behind bid optimization and forecast generation.

Skills

Auction mechanics

OpenRTB

Forecasting methods

SQL/log analysis

Inventory quality

Tools

SQL

OpenRTB

Job description

TEGNA, a leading local media company in Tysons, VA, is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own bidding and forecasting systems across its ad-tech platform. You will align bid logic, forecasting, and planning to deliver on campaigns with national scale and local execution.

Five-plus years in product management, hands-on work in DSP/SSP environments, and experience shipping bid or forecasting model changes are highly valued. This role offers robust benefits and a clear path to impact.