Product Manager (AdTech)

TL;DR

Interim Product Manager (AdTech): Building and optimizing Awesome Intelligence, a tool for compliant, privacy-preserving, and age-appropriate audience-based digital campaign planning, with an accent on translating customer and business needs into clear product outcomes and day-to-day product backlog ownership. Focus on leading sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness, as well as evolving the Awesome Intelligence Roadmap and validating problems through discovery-to-delivery loops.

Location: Primarily based in London, UK, with the possibility to work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year, subject to manager approval and timezone alignment.

Company

hirify.global is an award-winning technology company that powers the youth digital ecosystem, helping brands engage with under-18 audiences through proprietary advertising and gaming products, audience insights, and compliance capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the product delivery flow for Awesome Intelligence’s audience and content functions, maintaining and prioritizing the team backlog.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done, ensuring shared understanding across Business Unit Leadership, Engineering, and stakeholders.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness, working with Engineering Managers to continuously improve team cadence and throughput.
• Manage scope and trade-offs to deliver iteratively without losing sight of long-term product direction.
• Own the evolution of the Awesome Intelligence Roadmap over the contract period, identifying necessary course adjustments and gaining alignment.
• Define outcomes and KPIs for any new functionality and run discovery-to-delivery loops to validate problems and test assumptions.

Requirements

• A digital advertising and marketing native, fluent in the domain language, with good knowledge of the technology landscape and ideally, a solid grasp of audience and campaign planning tools.
• Demonstrable track record owning backlog and shipping successful, data-centric products in this space using agile methods.
• Solid experience working with data science and analytics functions, and managing dependencies on data engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to align differing priorities, mediating with clarity and calm.
• Data-driven approach, capable of defining metrics, interpreting dashboards, and using evidence to drive decisions.
• Strong communication skills, able to write unambiguous, precise requirements and lead conversations to unblock contentious issues.

Nice to have

• Exposure to data privacy regulation and/or youth audience marketing.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days Holiday + 8 Public Holidays + Winter Break + Summer Fridays (10 Fridays).
• Enhanced Company Maternity Pay (up to 100% of salary for the first 26 weeks) and Paternity Pay (100% of salary for 6 weeks).
• 30-day sabbatical for employees who have reached 7 years tenure.
• Axa Private Medical Insurance (MHD, existing illnesses covered) and Health Cash Plan (including PMI excess cover, physio, dental, vision).
• Life Assurance (4x salary) and Income Protection (8-week deferred period and 75% of salary up to two years).
• Pension through Aegon with 4% employer contribution.
• Cycle to Work & Tech Scheme.