Principal Product Manager (Adtech)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (Adtech): Driving growth and value across The Times’ commercial ecosystem, focusing on diversification, ad experience, and travel-related commercial ventures. Focus on delivering measurable business impact while improving customer experiences across websites and apps, balancing short-term revenue with long-term sustainability.

Location: Minimum of three days a week in the office.

Company

hirify.global is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland with newsbrands including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, and The TLS.

What you will do

• Set the vision and commercial product strategy for monetisation products across The Times.
• Articulate the tribe vision and roadmap, prioritising where squads can deliver the most impact across Diversification, Experience, Travel.
• Define and deliver commercial roadmaps with clear prioritisation, balancing short-term revenue opportunities with longer-term sustainability.
• Collaborate across domains with Monetisation squads, the Travel Product Manager, and other Product tribes and squads.
• Drive experimentation, championing an evidence-led approach to monetisation by validating or invalidating assumptions through A/B testing, prototyping, and customer insight.
• Mentor and line-manage Product Managers, supporting them to optimise their product development process.

Requirements

• Strong experience in a commercial advertising focussed Product role, with strong Ad Tech understanding.
• Ability to work with and influence others to sell your vision and the product journey.
• Proactiveness in identifying and tackling opportunities.
• An experimental approach, focused on validating or invalidating assumptions to drive incremental impact.
• Ability to define solutions with the support of teams, balancing roadmap priorities, delivery timeframes, and presenting well-defined business cases.
• At hirify.global, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office.

Culture & Benefits

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes.
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.