Manager, Inventory Product Strategy

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

The Inventory & Channel Program team is responsible for driving growth, profitability, and investment discipline across StackAdapt’s inventory and channel portfolio. This includes programmatic channels such as Display, Native, Video, CTV, Audio, and DOOH, as well as emerging and adjacent marketing channels such as email, direct mail, paid media, walled gardens, and AI-enabled buying experiences.

As the business matures, the team is evolving from feature-driven delivery toward a more rigorous investment portfolio approach, where roadmap decisions are based on business impact, confidence, urgency, and required investment.

We are looking for a Manager, Inventory & Product Strategy to support portfolio-level decision making across inventory and channel initiatives. This role will partner closely with Channel Leads, Product, Engineering, Operations, Partnerships, GTM, Finance, and leadership to quantify opportunities, validate business cases, and help prioritize investments across the Inventory & Channels portfolio.

The role will initially focus on programmatic channels, where the team has the deepest operating history and largest near-term business impact, while helping establish a decisioning and prioritization model that can scale across the broader Inventory & Channels portfolio over time.

This is not a day-to-day delivery or implementation role. The role is focused on improving decision quality, ensuring roadmap opportunities are evaluated consistently, and helping leadership allocate resources toward the highest-value initiatives.

What You'll Be Doing:

Partner with Channel Leads to evaluate opportunities across programmatic channels initially, with the framework extending over time to adjacent marketing channels and cross-channel initiatives

Quantify expected business impact, including revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk reduction, customer adoption, and long-term strategic value

Build and validate business cases for major roadmap opportunities and investment decisions

Standardize prioritization inputs across channels, including impact, confidence, urgency, and investment requirements

Maintain a portfolio-level view of inventory and channel opportunities, tradeoffs, assumptions, and prioritization rationale

Support quarterly channel investment reviews and leadership roadmap discussions

Identify gaps, overlaps, double-counting, or weak assumptions in investment recommendations

Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, GTM, Partnerships, and Operations to ensure roadmap decisions are grounded in business outcomes and execution reality

Help translate ambiguous business problems into clear decision frameworks, options, and recommendations

Track whether completed initiatives achieved expected outcomes and feed learnings back into future prioritization

What You'll Bring to the Table

Experience in technology, product strategy, business operations, product operations, strategic finance, consulting, product management, or a related function

Strong ability to quantify business impact, assess tradeoffs, and evaluate investment opportunities

Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with comfort working through ambiguity and imperfect data

Ability to partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, GTM, Finance, Partnerships, and leadership stakeholders

Strong structured problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and option assessment

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex tradeoffs for leadership audiences

Ability to influence without direct ownership of execution

Strong business judgment and product intuition

Nice to Have

MBA or equivalent business strategy experience

Experience in ad tech, martech, marketplace businesses, platforms, or B2B SaaS

Experience with pricing, monetization, marketplace efficiency, channel strategy, or product portfolio management

Familiarity with programmatic advertising, inventory quality, supply integrations, media channel operations, or multi-channel marketing products

What Success Looks Like

Channel opportunities are evaluated using a consistent decisioning and prioritization framework

Leadership has a clear portfolio view of the highest-impact opportunities across Inventory & Channels

Roadmap discussions are grounded in business impact, confidence, urgency, and investment tradeoffs

Channel Leads receive stronger analytical support for business cases and investment recommendations

Resource allocation decisions become more transparent, comparable, and outcome-driven

The Inventory & Channel Program improves its ability to focus on the highest-value work without increasing process burden

Completed initiatives are measured against expected outcomes, improving the quality of future investment decisions

The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in Ontario, Canada. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location.

This range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.

The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.

Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.

$114,400 - $157,300 CAD

StackAdapter's Enjoy:

Highly competitive salary

Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally

Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!

Access to a comprehensive mental health care program

Health benefits from day one of employment

Work from home reimbursements

Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto

Robust training and onboarding program

Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)

Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning

An awesome parental leave program

A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture

Our social and team events!

Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

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