**Senior Manager, Yield & Inventory Management [Demand Facilitation]**
Advertising | Boston, Massachusetts | Requisition ID: 5640 **Roku is changing how the world watches TV**
Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, and weve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.
From your first day at Roku, youll make a valuable and valued contribution. Were a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers worldwide while gaining meaningful experience across various disciplines.
**About the role**
Were seeking a Senior Manager to run our team of talented inventory specialists that are working to maximize profitable revenue and provide best in class support for our platform business.
This position will report to the Director of Inventory Management, as part of the larger Publisher Ad Solutions organization. This position will manage a team of talented managers/analysts that are tasked with ensuring the successful monetization of our ad inventory. The head of demand facilitation will have the opportunity to help build out and scale a team that is responsible for ensuring were successfully delivering our ad campaigns while maintaining key Roku KPIs.
This is a full-time position and can be based at our office in New York, Boston, or Santa Monica.
**What youll be doing**
* Automation and streamlining of all business stakeholder reporting, including advancing measurement and insights into key KPIs
* Create and define new metrics that provide executive leadership information about the health of our ads business from a revenue monetization and inventory perspective.
* Partner with Ad Sales, Ad Operations and Client Services leadership on efficient cross functional workflows and handoffs
* Create quarterly team roadmaps that are oriented around broader Inventory Management team goals
* Work closely with Product Management to help develop proprietary forecasting and execution tools that allow us to balance user experience & monetization while reducing manual processes
* Create documentation, inventory pacing playbooks and troubleshooting guides for new hires
* Identify additional team resources needed for cross functional training
* Distribute weekly and bi-weekly Inventory updates to Product and Senior Management to inform revenue opportunity & inventory sell through across different ad formats
**Were excited if you have**
* At least 15+ years of digital or TV Yield/Inventory experience.
* Highly proficient in Excel and Powerpoint.
* Strong experience in advanced analytics tools such as Lookr, Tableau
* Working knowledge of ad servers and Programmatic SSPs or DSPs.
* Experience in long range planning exercises and forecasting models
* Understanding of high-level Yield & Monetization strategy. Experience working on projects & rolling out initiatives and following through on their implementation.
* Experience working with Product and Engineering teams
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