Product Manager, AdTech Platform (Hybrid)

carsales; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 weeks parental leave (primary)

4 weeks parental leave (secondary)

Family & fertility planning leave

Job summary

Publift is an Adtech company enabling publishers to maximise display ad revenue. We offer hybrid work, strong growth, and a supportive team culture. You will own discovery and roadmap for one or more product areas around auction core, including tooling, workflows, and platform capabilities.

You’ll lead initiatives, manage backlog and stakeholder trade-offs, and work closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial teams to drive measurable outcomes that benefit customers and the business.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end ownership

Technical domain shipping

Writing specs/PRDs

Discovery and roadmap

Data-driven decision making

Communicating with engineers/data-sc.

Ambiguity management

Job description

Publift is an Adtech company enabling publishers to maximise display ad revenue. We offer hybrid work, strong growth, and a supportive team culture. You will own discovery and roadmap for one or more product areas around auction core, including tooling, workflows, and platform capabilities.

You’ll lead initiatives, manage backlog and stakeholder trade-offs, and work closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial teams to drive measurable outcomes that benefit customers and the business.