Product Manager

carsales.com.au; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible leave options

24 weeks parental leave

Best Workplace recognised by Great Way

Job summary

Publift is seeking a Product Manager to own discovery and end-to-end roadmap delivery for one or more product areas centered around the auction core. You will convert customer input into a clear backlog and collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial teams to drive outcomes.

This ownership role emphasizes data-driven decisions, strong specs, and collaboration across teams in a hybrid working environment. You will influence monetisation, ad serving, and publisher-driven workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a product management role with end-to-end ownership of technical products or features.
• Track record of shipping in a technical domain, working closely with engineering.
• Fluent in writing specs, PRDs, or equivalent artefacts that others build from directly.
• Strong product fundamentals: discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap ownership.
• Experience managing products with different levels of customers and users.
• You measure yourself on outcomes, not shipped features - and you translate ideas into revenue, adoption, or efficiency terms.
• You're comfortable in detailed conversations with Engineers and Data Scientists and with unfamiliar technical systems.
• You write clearly and others build directly from your specs or PRDs.
• You're comfortable owning a broad, ambiguous space and creating clarity.
• You treat AI tooling as leverage in day-to-day workflows.
• Comfort working with data directly (SQL/spreadsheets) to support decisions.
• Experience with operational or internal-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap delivery for your product area, building a coherent, evidence-based roadmap from customer, user, and business needs.
• Turn publisher feedback and signals into a prioritised backlog and justify trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Write clear problem statements and specifications that engineers can build from directly.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial teams through delivery, surface risks early and measure shipped work.
• Talk to customers and internal users regularly and let feedback shape the roadmap.

Skills

Product management

Technical collaboration

Specs/PRDs writing

Data-driven decisions

AI tooling familiarity

SQL / data analysis

Operational/internal products

Tools

SQL

Job description

Are you ready to shape the future of Digital Advertising?

Publift is a dynamic Adtech company dedicated to empowering online publishers and websites to maximize their revenue from display ads. We are passionate about driving publisher growth and have an amazing team committed to this mission. We empower publishers to feel safe and thrive for a long time.

Fueled by recent enhancements in our sales capacity and product development efforts, Publift has experienced exciting growth since our inception. We will continue to grow, and we continue to evolve - and we’re committed to taking innovative steps to get there.

Founded in 2015, we have a diverse team of Pub-lifters, growing to over 70 people across three countries!

When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small - small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other.

We embrace hybrid working - combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing.

What’s on offer:

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace and a WORK180 endorsed employer for women.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team thatyou’ll actually have face time with.
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave and paid family & fertility planning leave.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing

You'll own discovery and roadmap delivery end to end for one or more of Fuse's product areas in and around our auction core, including tooling, workflows, and platform capabilities that publishers and our internal teams rely on every day. That might mean the interfaces publishers use to understand and control their setup, data visualisation and automation for user and customer decision making, or core integrations into our platform to improve monetisation and ad serving.

This is a genuine ownership role. You'll own initiatives outright, including its roadmap, its backlog, user and customer conversations and will be accountable for outcomes. Fuse is a technical product and to make your mark here, you'll need to develop real fluency with the system and ecosystem we operate in. You do not need Adtech experience to apply, but you do need curiosity, strong product fundamentals, and the instinct to tie every piece of work back to what it does for customers and the business.

• Own discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap delivery for your product area, building a coherent, evidence-based roadmap from customer, user, and business needs.
• Turn publisher feedback, internal signals, and support patterns into a scored, prioritised backlog, and make your trade-offs legible to stakeholders.
• Write clear problem statements and specifications that engineers can build from directly, making ambiguous problems unambiguous for the team.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial team through delivery: surface risks early, make pragmatic scope trade-offs, and take shipped work through measurement and iteration.
• Talk to customer and internal users regularly and let what you hear visibly shape the roadmap.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years in a product management role with end-to-end ownership of technicalproducts or features.
• A track record of shipping in a technical domain, working closely with engineering.
• Fluent inwriting specs, PRDs, or equivalent artefacts that others build from directly.
• Strong product fundamentals: discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap ownership.
• Experience managing products with different levels of customers and users.
• You measure yourself on outcomes, not shipped features - and you instinctively translate ideas into revenue, adoption, retention, or efficiency terms.
• You're energised rather than intimidated by unfamiliar technical systems, and you're comfortable in detailed conversations with Engineers and Data Scientists
• You write sharply, and others have built directly from your specs, PRDs, or equivalent artefacts.
• You're comfortable owning a broad, ambiguous space and creating clarity in it rather than waiting for it.
• You treat AI tooling as leverage in your day-to-day work. Our productworkflows are agent-assisted, and you'll extend them rather than resist them.
• Comfort working with data directly, for example in SQL or spreadsheet-level analysis to support your own decisions.
• Experience with operational or internal-facing products, where the user is an expert and the workflows are complex.

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, Publift welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

So come and join us - because every role contributes something meaningful as we embark on this exciting journey of growth and innovation.