Ashish Kumar.

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A decade-plus of product landings — not just feature shipping.

From SSP to DSP to end-to-end programmatic platforms.

  1. Senior Director of Product Management

    @ PubMatic

    Apr 2026 — Present

    Leading the next chapter of PubMatic's monetization platform.

  2. Director of Product Management — Monetization

    @ PubMatic

    Apr 2024 — Present

    Driving core SSP monetization with focus on CTV, video, inbound traffic shaping, DSP QPS management, PMP optimization and supply quality.

  3. Senior Technical Product Manager — Amazon DSP

    @ Amazon

    Apr 2022 — Apr 2024

    Owned campaign management on the Amazon DSP product team — built troubleshooting and optimization tooling for traders, and shaped goal-oriented workflows that simplified how advertisers run programmatic campaigns at scale.

  4. Associate Director, Product Management

    @ PubMatic

    Mar 2022 — Apr 2022

    Owned ML and the core Real-Time Bidding exchange from the product side.

  5. Senior Product Manager

    @ PubMatic

    Apr 2019 — Mar 2022

    Owned the Open RTB API ad-server roadmap, publisher/DSP integrations and auction rules. Partnered with ML & data science to optimize publisher performance.

  6. Solutions Engineer

    @ PubMatic

    Apr 2018 — Apr 2019

    Pre-sales technical lead — custom solutions, ORTB / Header Wrapper / Audience Match integrations, yield optimization with SQL & Qubole.

  7. Customer Success Operations Manager

    @ PubMatic

    Aug 2016 — Mar 2018

    Customer success ops across the NYC and Bay Area teams.

  8. Publisher Delivery Manager

    @ Exponential (VDX.tv)

    Aug 2015 — Jun 2016

    Led publisher delivery for the programmatic account team — built out the Canadian publisher network from the ground up, managed key accounts, and optimized campaign delivery across desktop, mobile and video pre-roll inventory.

  9. Operations & Account Management — Supply

    @ PubMatic

    Aug 2013 — Aug 2015

    Where it started — onboarding publishers, RTB & PMP ops, mentoring new hires.

Selected wins

PubMatic $100M → $2B+

Helped scale PubMatic's annual ad spend from $100M to over $2B across the platform.

Google Open Bidding $0 → $250M

Scaled Google Open Bidding annual spend from zero to $250M+.

Amazon TAM to $100M

Scaled Amazon Trusted Ad Marketplace to $100M in annual spend.

Mobile App Monetization 6.6×

Grew mobile app monetization from $30M to $200M in annual spend.

Contextual Data Marketplace

Built the contextual data marketplace powering sell-side targeting for buyers and data partners.

DSP Scaling

Scaled DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon, Temu, and Viant on PubMatic's exchange.

Goal-Based Workflows GA

Took Goal-Based Workflows (Performance+ Alpha) to GA on Amazon DSP — simplifying how advertisers run outcome-driven programmatic campaigns.