American City Business Journals

Digital Ad Product Manager, Channel Innovation

American City Business Journals  •  Charlotte, NC (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

Own and grow channel products

  • Lead the monetization strategy for newsletters and email products (placement packaging, pricing logic, tiering, targeting, performance benchmarks).
  • Define and test new channel offerings – exploring social media, short form video and other emerging media formats.

Drive pilots from idea to scale

  • Translate concepts into clear product specs, and go to market packages; run test and learn pilots, measure outcomes, and decide when to scale, iterate, or sunset.
  • Work with UX and development teams, as well as AI vibe coding tools, to turn ideas into prototypes and fully realized solutions, iterating through feedback.

Enable sales & marketing

  • Build positioning, sales materials, pricing, and training that make it easy for sellers to go to market.
  • Guide marketing and positioning efforts for owned products including email and content campaigns created to increase awareness and leads for local markets.

Operate with data

  • Monitor product performance, identify yield opportunities, and propose optimizations to pricing, packaging, or delivery.
  • Establish relationships with local sales teams to get market feedback on product needs; incorporate that feedback throughout product development cycles

Collaborate crossfunctionally

  • Work closely with advertising operations, client experience, editorial, design and development, marketing, and local market sales teams; coordinate with external partners or vendors when needed.
  • Work with sales development and training teams to support local market product adoption efforts.
  • Contribute to release cycles and product process improvements.

Qualifications

  • 5–7+ years in digital product management or within media, advertising, or a related B2B environment.
  • Proven experience constructing and pricing products (e.g., newsletters, email sponsorships) and/or social/short form media offerings.
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort in dashboards and data, and interpreting performance into actions.
  • Excellent go-to-market instincts: you can turn complex capabilities into simple, sellable products with clear value and outcomes.
  • Natural project leadership: organized, proactive, and effective at coordinating stakeholders to deliver on time.
  • Project management skills: ability to translate build of a product into clear steps and timelines.
American City Business Journals

About American City Business Journals

The Nation’s Premier Print and Digital Publisher of Local Business News

American City Business Journals is a multi-platform media company providing in-depth coverage of local business communities and breaking news. Through print, digital products and face-to-face events, ACBJ offers business leaders many avenues for making connections and gives them a competitive edge locally, regionally and nationally. ACBJ is the premier media solutions platform for companies that target business decision-makers.

In addition to its business newspapers, American City operates BizEquity. This online business valuation platform helps financial professionals create more valuable relationships with business owners.

American City also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News.

American City is a unit of Advance, whose exceptional portfolio includes Condé Nast, Advance Local, Leaders Group, Stage Entertainment, Turnitin, 1010data, and POP. Advance is also among the largest shareholders in Charter Communications, Discovery and Reddit.

Industry
Unknown
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Charlotte, NC
Year Founded
1985
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