Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization

Accountabilities

• Own significant portions of the ad monetization product roadmap, taking responsibility for product discovery, prioritization, execution, and outcomes.
• Develop a deep understanding of existing ad monetization capabilities, including ad revenue tracking, rewarded-ad infrastructure, virtual currency, entitlement flows, and server-side reward validation.
• Engage directly with customers to understand their challenges, evaluate existing products, identify unmet needs, and uncover high-impact opportunities.
• Partner closely with engineering and design to define product requirements, explore technical solutions, validate hypotheses, and ship pragmatic solutions quickly.
• Build and test product hypotheses using customer research, experimentation, data, and market insights to determine where to invest.
• Develop a strong understanding of the mobile advertising ecosystem, including publisher inventory, demand sources, auctions, pricing, mediation, measurement, and monetization models.
• Balance technical, commercial, and customer considerations when making product decisions and communicate clear recommendations to stakeholders.
• Establish priorities and make informed decisions in an environment with significant ambiguity and strategic flexibility.
• Ship meaningful improvements that create measurable monetization value for customers and contribute to the growth of the ad monetization product area.
• Continuously evaluate product performance and use evidence to refine, stop, change, or deprioritize initiatives when they are not delivering expected value.
• Develop a clear, evidence-backed long-term product vision and roadmap for ad monetization.
• Build strong relationships across product, engineering, design, data, and go-to-market functions, as well as with senior stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of customer needs, vendor ecosystems, competitive dynamics, and relevant industry trends.
• Act as a domain expert on advertising and monetization, helping broader teams make informed product and business decisions.
• During the first year, take primary individual-contributor ownership of the ad monetization product area and establish a meaningful foundation for its continued growth.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience owning product decisions and outcomes end-to-end, whether as a Product Manager, founder, or in another role with significant product ownership.
• Proven experience building and shipping publisher-facing ad monetization products for mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of mobile advertising mechanics, including publisher inventory, demand sources, auctions, pricing, mediation, measurement, and related monetization models.
• Practical understanding of the incentives and commercial dynamics across different participants in the advertising ecosystem.
• Ability to reason effectively about both the technical and business implications of product decisions.
• Sufficient technical fluency to work closely with engineers on SDKs, APIs, integrations, data flows, and other technical product challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, ship quickly, and learn from real-world results.
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to take ownership of an early-stage initiative and help turn initial traction into a significant product area.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, making decisions under uncertainty, and taking responsibility for outcomes.
• Strong customer orientation and genuine interest in helping developers improve their monetization performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across technical, commercial, and executive audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across product, engineering, design, data, and go-to-market teams.
• A pragmatic, analytical, and evidence-driven approach to product development and prioritization.

Benefits:

• Competitive equity package with the opportunity to participate in the long-term growth of a fast-growing technology company.
• 10-year exercise window for vested equity options.
• Fully remote working environment designed around autonomy, flexibility, and distributed collaboration.
• 4–5 weeks of flexible paid time off annually.
• Paid coworking space or desk.
• Dedicated workspace budget.
• Continuous learning and professional development stipend.
• Opportunity to work on products operating at significant scale and serving a broad global developer ecosystem.