Product Manager - Auction Core & Monetization

Publift; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Top Workplace award

Leadership access

Parental leave (24 weeks)

Job summary

Publift in Sydney is seeking a Product Manager to own discovery and roadmap for one or more product areas around our auction core, including tooling, workflows and platform capabilities used by publishers and internal teams.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data Science and Commercial teams, write clear specs, and translate feedback into a prioritised backlog. You will measure outcomes in revenue, adoption, and efficiency, pushing for customer value in every decision.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a product management role with end-to-end ownership of technical products or features.
• Experience 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 translate ideas into revenue, adoption, or efficiency terms.
• You're energised by unfamiliar technical systems and comfortable in detailed conversations with Engineers and Data Scientists.
• You write clearly and others build from your specs, PRDs, or equivalent artefacts.
• You're comfortable owning a broad, ambiguous space and creating clarity in it.

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 with clear trade-offs.
• 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 manage scope trade-offs.
• Talk to customer and internal users regularly and let what you hear shape the roadmap.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Technical product management

Spec writing

Roadmap ownership

Data-driven decisions

SQL / data analysis

AI tooling familiarity

Job description

Publift in Sydney is seeking a Product Manager to own discovery and roadmap for one or more product areas around our auction core, including tooling, workflows and platform capabilities used by publishers and internal teams.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data Science and Commercial teams, write clear specs, and translate feedback into a prioritised backlog. You will measure outcomes in revenue, adoption, and efficiency, pushing for customer value in every decision.