Yield Operations Specialist (Adtech)

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia; hybrid working with remote flexibility and in-person collaboration

Company

Publift is an adtech company helping online publishers maximise display advertising revenue through auction optimisation and monetisation technology.

What you will do

• Optimise publisher-side auctions across Google Ad Manager, Prebid, Amazon TAM, and related adtech tools.
• Investigate performance issues using reporting platforms, logs, network calls, and browser developer tools.
• Define hypotheses, run A/B experiments and controlled tests, and turn results into recommendations.
• Build reusable optimisation playbooks, runbooks, onboarding checks, and publisher-specific experiments.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, Commercial, and Customer teams on monetisation improvements and enablement.
• Support vendor and partner evaluations covering SSPs, identity, measurement, trials, and integrations.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of ad serving and programmatic advertising, including auctions, deals, and troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical skills with large datasets in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Experience defining problems, running experiments, interpreting results, and documenting next steps.
• Practical live-page troubleshooting skills involving logs, network calls, and browser consoles.
• Experience in programmatic yield optimisation or an adjacent analytics role; familiarity with Google Ad Manager, Prebid, or Amazon TAM.
• Full-time Australian working rights and successful completion of a National Police Record check are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexible arrangements and in-person collaboration.
• Collaborative work across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Commercial, and Customer teams.
• 24 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Paid family and fertility planning leave.
• Inclusive workplace with support for adjustments during the recruitment process.
• Part-time options may be discussed during the hiring process.

Hiring process

• Successful candidates complete a National Police Record check.
• The employer responds to every applicant through the Circle Back Initiative.