Product Manager, Adtech Platform — End-to-End Ownership

Publift; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Best Workplace Australia

WORK180 endorsed employer

24 weeks parental leave

Secondary caregiver leave

Family & fertility planning leave

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Publift, Sydney-based Adtech company, seeks a Product Manager to own discovery and roadmap for key product areas around our auction core. You’ll work with engineering, data science, and commercial teams to improve monetisation and ad serving, with genuine ownership of outcomes.

You don’t need prior Adtech experience, but you must have strong product fundamentals and the ability to translate ideas into revenue, adoption, retention, or efficiency terms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a product management role with end-to-end ownership of technical products or features.
• A 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, retention, or efficiency terms.
• You're energized by unfamiliar technical systems and comfortable in detailed conversations with Engineers and Data Scientists.
• You write clearly and others have built from your specs, PRDs, or equivalent artefacts.
• You're comfortable owning a broad, ambiguous space and creating clarity.
• You treat AI tooling as leverage in day-to-day work and extend product workflows.
• Comfort working with data directly, e.g. SQL or spreadsheet analysis.
• 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, internal signals, and support patterns into a scored, prioritised backlog, and make trade-offs legible 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, make pragmatic scope trade-offs, and measure shipped work.
• Talk to customer and internal users regularly and let what you hear visibly shape the roadmap.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Shipping in tech domain

PRD/spec writing

Discovery & roadmap ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

SQL/data analysis

Ambiguity management

Job description

Publift, Sydney-based Adtech company, seeks a Product Manager to own discovery and roadmap for key product areas around our auction core. You’ll work with engineering, data science, and commercial teams to improve monetisation and ad serving, with genuine ownership of outcomes.

You don’t need prior Adtech experience, but you must have strong product fundamentals and the ability to translate ideas into revenue, adoption, retention, or efficiency terms.