Associate Product Manager

Role: Associate Product Manager

Location: Bengaluru 

What you’ll do 

We’re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we’re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better. 

As an Associate Product Manager in our Data Management product stream, you’ll have the chance to:  

• Ideate, vision, validate and help build key data management features which is at the core of MiQ’s data-driven programmatic media offering
• Help build tools, frameworks, SDKs, APIs, pipelines, data cubes and data formats for other teams to consume data platforms and data products for building business-critical product features
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to research, validate and prioritize new features that align with business priorities
• Identify and work closely with key external partners to ensure that MIQ product roadmap is additive
• Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements
• Lead the ideation, technical development, launch and continued adoption of features you build
• Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers & data scientists.
• Define, collect and analyse metrics that inform the success of the product

Who are your stakeholders? 

• The key set of people who will be consuming the data management features that you will help build our analysts, data scientists and product teams at MiQ, Hence they will be your major stakeholders
• In a few scenarios, we also have client facing data platform requirements directly being delivered by the Data Management team - e.g. 1PD onboarding platform, data cubes. Here stakeholders are clients and client facing teams like Sales and Client Services who represent the clients internally within MiQ.

What you’ll bring  

• Prior Experience in Product Management for a minimum of 2+ years, preferably as a Technical Product Manager of data platforms / products meant for developers or data scientists. (e.g. API products)
• Prior software development experience is preferable but not mandatory, however, you should have at least tried out a number of hobby projects like app creation, data pipelines etc. on cloud.
• Prior exposure to ETL solutions, big data tool sets, data ops and data governance, Jupyter Notebooks, Cloudera, Apache Nifi
• Exposure and understanding of more than one of the following is preferable
  • data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake etc
  • data formats like Delta, Apache Iceberg
  • newer data paradigms like Data As A Product, Medallion Architecture, Data Mesh etc.
• Understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• Prior experience in handling data pipeline optimization kind of product scenarios for failures, speed and efficiency.
• Prior experience of stakeholder interaction, managing conflicting requirements/priorities across stakeholders
• Extensive experience in handling and maintaining a relationship with vendors for product issues and also for build/buy decisioning.
• Exposure to ad-tech is preferable but not mandatory
• Willingness to try new technologies and ability to grasp and learn quickly
• Comfort with numbers and a quantitative approach to solve problems

We’ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that’s a fit for this role, or another opportunity at MiQ.  

If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.  

What impact will you create? 

MiQ has a petabyte scale data platform serving our data-driven programmatic offering.

As an Associate Product Manager in the Data Management team, you will build key data management features which will have an impact at the bottom line of the company enabling sophisticated data and AI driven programmatic media capabilities and elevate MiQ in its offering. You will get an opportunity to democratise data and AI within MiQ and contribute to the data culture organically in a product-led way.

What’s in it for you?

Our Center of Excellence is the very heart of MiQ, and it’s where the magic happens. It means everything you do and everything you create will have a huge impact across our entire global business. 

MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work. 

Values 

Our values are so much more than statements. They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we naturally live and breathe them. Just like inclusivity, our values flow through everything we do - no matter how big or small.                              

• We do what we love - Passion
• We figure it out - Determination
• We anticipate the unexpected - Agility
• We always unite - Unite
• We dare to be unconventional - Courage

Benefits  

Every region and office have specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect: 

• A hybrid work environment  
• New hire orientation with job specific onboarding and training
• Internal and global mobility opportunities
• Competitive healthcare benefits
• Bonus and performance incentives
• Generous annual PTO paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives.
• Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all MiQ regions, drive action, and support our communities.

Apply today! 

Equal Opportunity Employer!