Product Manager (Adtech)

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia; hybrid working. Full-time Australian working rights are required.

Company

Publift is an adtech company that helps online publishers and websites maximise revenue from display advertising.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, roadmap, KPIs, and outcomes for auction optimisation across Prebid and Google Ad Manager.
• Lead the end-to-end optimisation loop, from hypothesis development and implementation planning to statistical analysis, go-to-market decisions, and post-launch reviews.
• Translate market, business, and customer needs into precise product problems, specifications, and experiment plans.
• Improve bidder configuration, identity solutions, price floors, timeouts, and ad layouts in a coherent and measurable way.
• Evaluate demand, identity, and measurement partners through structured trials and support commercial 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-generating products, primarily 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 define metrics, guardrails, hypotheses, segmentation, and explicit go/no-go criteria for experiments.
• Ability to discuss test design and basic statistics with Data Scientists and explain results to non-specialists.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working combining remote flexibility with in-person collaboration.
• Flexible working arrangements, including the possibility of part-time work by agreement.
• 24 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Six weeks of paid gender-affirming care leave.
• Continuous learning, wellbeing initiatives, and an inclusive workplace.
• National Police Record check required before joining.

Hiring process

• Reasonable adjustments are available for candidates who need support during the recruitment process.
• Every applicant receives a response as part of the Circle Back Initiative.