Manager, Inventory Product Strategy
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
Experience supporting roadmap prioritization, portfolio planning, business case development, or resource allocation decisions
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.
Factors Influencing Final Compensation:
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.
Ontario Salary Band
$114,400—$157,300 CAD