Business Intelligence Senior Associate

Pune · Hybrid · Posted Oct 12, 2026

At a glance

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.

Your role as a Business Intelligence Senior Associate is to work with the product and machine learning team to automate the process of manual forecasting and identify the root causes.
You are expected to detect anomalies/issues early, identify root causes, track revenue and spend trends on an hourly/daily/weekly/monthly basis against the forecast.
Coordination with multiple teams to fix problems with rollouts/ releases and ensure leadership always has an accurate view of performance.

Monitor the health of the business via tools such as our anomaly detection software and other dashboards, and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned on the health of key input metrics.
Monitor the hourly trend continuously.
Revenue declines must be assessed to find the root cause and verify if the decline is associated with any product release.
Share insights and learnings on long-term and short-term trends with a broader set of stakeholders to inform strategic planning and GTM execution.
Allocate the identified cause to the corresponding teams and assess the next actions.
Inform the Network Operations Center team to trigger P1/P2 alerts based on the severity of the revenue decline.
Own the revenue forecasting process and provide executive updates
Define variance thresholds that trigger deeper analysis to understand reasons behind movements of key dimensions.
Investigate any metrics that show signs of decay or are deviating from the norm and find the root cause.
Lead the monthly review process with Marketplace, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to track the key drivers of our spend on an ongoing basis.

Technical skills such as Excel, Looker, MYSQL, forecasting, impact measurement, AB Testing, are a must.
Strong knowledge of data manipulation and analysis.
Familiarity with anomaly detection techniques, including supervised and unsupervised learning methods, time-series analysis, and outlier detection algorithms.
Problem Solving - Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work with ambiguous data.
Attention to Detail - High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all work.
Shift Timings - 3.00 PM to 12 midnight
Should have a Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.

Knowledge of Excel macro/VBA, Python, and Ad Tech experience is good to have.
Experience with GenAI-based tools like Cursor and Claude will be an added advantage.
Understanding big data technologies and tools like Hadoop, Spark, or cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) is a plus.

PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”)