Senior Manager, Platform Partnerships

New York City · USD 140,000-150,000 / year · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

We are looking for a commercially minded and highly collaborative Senior Manager, Platform Partnerships to help grow and strengthen our relationships across the programmatic ecosystem.
This role sits at the intersection of Partnerships, Commercial, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Operations, managing a portfolio of strategic platform relationships.
The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of programmatic advertising, experience working with DSPs and other platform partners, and the ability to translate technical opportunities into commercial outcomes.

Manage and develop relationships across a portfolio of strategic platform partners, including DSPs.
Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Partnerships, Product, Technical Operations, Sales, Product Marketing, Inventory, and Commercial teams.
Identify opportunities to deepen existing partnerships, increase demand access, and drive incremental revenue.
Support the development and launch of new platform partnerships and direct integrations.
Develop clear commercial narratives and materials that communicate our value proposition to partners.
Support partnership negotiations in collaboration with Legal, Finance, Product, and senior leadership.
Help identify opportunities to transition indirect relationships toward more strategic direct partnerships.
Develop and maintain account plans for priority partners, identifying opportunities across inventory, formats, geographies, products, data, and emerging channels.
Support QBRs and regular partnership reviews focused on performance, roadmap alignment, opportunities, and next steps.
Track partnership KPIs, pipeline, revenue opportunities, and overall account health.

6+ years of experience across AdTech, programmatic advertising, strategic partnerships, business development, account management, or related commercial functions.
Strong understanding of the programmatic ecosystem, including DSPs, SSPs, agencies, publishers, data, identity, curation, and marketplaces.
Experience managing relationships with DSPs or other strategic platform partners.
Track record of growing strategic accounts, developing partnerships, or driving commercial opportunities.
Working knowledge of DSP integrations, supply optimization, SPO, QPS, bidstream dynamics, Deal IDs and marketplace mechanics.
Ability to work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Sales, Finance, and Legal.
Strong relationship-building, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Comfortable working with data and using performance insights to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
Organized and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple partnerships and priorities at once.
Curious, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with some ambiguity.

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