Manager, Inventory Partnerships and Operations

Job description

Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses. Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve. Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes. Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media. **About the Role:** As the Manager of Inventory Partnerships and Operations, you will lead strategic and operational initiatives that enable Madhive to deliver high-quality inventory through strong partnerships and seamless deal execution. Reporting into the Inventory team, you will be a key liaison across internal stakeholders and external partners—driving the setup, maintenance, and optimization of supply relationships to ensure performance and transparency across the platform. **What You’ll Do:** - Own the end-to-end setup and implementation of programmatic supply deals, including deal IDs, integration workflows, and technical onboarding. - Manage and expand relationships with key supply partners (SSPs, publishers, curation providers) to ensure consistent, scalable access to premium inventory. - Serve as the internal expert and point of contact for supply-related communication—working cross-functionally with product, legal, client services, and sales teams. - Collaborate with 3rd party measurement, verification, and data vendors to ensure supply quality standards are met and enforced. - Develop and maintain internal documentation and operational workflows to support inventory deal execution and supply partner management. - Produce reporting and insights that help evaluate supply performance and inform internal stakeholders of partnership impact. - Partner with marketing and client-facing teams to communicate inventory capabilities and support go-to-market efforts. - Ensure inventory integrations align with data, privacy, and compliance best practices. **Who You Are:** - 3+ years of experience in supply partnerships, ad operations, or a technical client-facing role within a DSP, SSP, or digital media company. - Proven experience managing external relationships and cross-functional projects involving business, legal, and technical teams. - Deep understanding of programmatic supply mechanics including deal IDs, ads.txt, sellers.json, and supply chain transparency. - Strong organizational and documentation skills; ability to translate complex workflows into scalable operational processes. - Familiarity with data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., SQL & Looker). - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a focus on clarity and collaboration. - Detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Marketing, or a related field. The approximate compensation range for this position is $105,000-$135,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team. **We are Madhive** Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact. We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. **Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.**