Product Manager - Adtech

Location: Hybrid in Sydney, NSW, Australia

Company

Publift is an Adtech company helping online publishers maximise revenue from display advertising, with over 70 people across three countries.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for auction optimisation across Prebid and Google Ad Manager.
• Define KPIs and decision guardrails to improve publisher revenue, yield, and inventory quality.
• Lead the optimisation loop from hypothesis and implementation strategy through experimentation, statistical analysis, launch, and post-launch review.
• Improve bidder configuration, identity, floors, timeouts, and layouts in a coherent and measurable way.
• Evaluate demand, identity, and measurement partners through structured trials and support Commercial teams with integration negotiations.
• Communicate priorities, risks, and results to executives and cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience with end-to-end ownership of revenue-bearing products, mostly in publisher-side Adtech.
• Hands-on experience with publisher monetisation systems, including Prebid, Google Ad Manager, SSPs/DSPs, and identity solutions.
• Demonstrated measurable impact on monetisation, reliability, latency, or comparable core metrics.
• Strong data analysis skills using SQL, Google Sheets, or Excel.
• Ability to explain a publisher’s auction journey from first principles, including its layers and instrumentation.
• Experience turning analytics into experiments by defining metrics, guardrails, segments, hypotheses, and explicit go/no-go criteria.
• Comfort discussing test design and basic statistics with Data Scientists and explaining results to non-specialists.
• Hands-on approach, including inspecting configurations or payloads before forming opinions.
• Full-time Australian working rights are required, and successful candidates must complete a National Police Record check.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexible arrangements and in-person collaboration.
• Career development support and opportunities to make a significant impact.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace with adjustments available during recruitment.
• 24 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and paid family and fertility planning leave.
• Part-time options may be explored during the hiring process.
• Circle Back Initiative employer committed to responding to every applicant.