Senior AdTech PM: Auction & Monetisation (Hybrid)

carsales.com.au; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 weeks paid parental leave

Flexible working arrangements

Hybrid working

Job summary

Publift is hiring a Product Manager to own auction optimisation across Prebid and Google Ad Manager, shaping strategy and measurable outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams, align business goals with technical delivery, and drive growth for publisher monetisation.

You will work with data scientists and engineers to design experiments, evaluate partner integrations, and communicate results to executives. Hybrid work options and strong growth potential are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience with end-to-end ownership of revenue-bearing products, the majority in publisher-side adtech.
• Hands-on experience with publisher monetisation systems: Prebid, Google Ad Manager, SSPs/DSPs, and identity solutions.
• Demonstrated, measurable impact on monetisation, reliability, latency, or comparable core metrics.
• Fluent with data analysis. Able for analysis in SQL/Google Sheets/Excel to support decisions.
• You can explain a publisher's auction journey from first principles, with all the potential layers involved and their instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for auction optimisation across Prebid and GAM, with clear KPIs and decision guardrails so every change lifts revenue, yield, and/or inventory quality.
• Frame hypotheses with Data Science, design implementation strategy with Engineering, interpret statistical results and go-to-market decisions.
• Translate business goals into precise problems, specs, and experiment plans that Engineers can build from directly, and drive delivery through launch and post-launch review.
• Make bidder configuration, identity, floors, timeouts, and layouts improvements measurable.
• Evaluate demand, identity, and measurement partners through structured trials with explicit success criteria, and support Commercial teams in integrations.
• Communicate priorities, risks, and results transparently to executives and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Publisher adtech

SQL/Data analysis

End-to-end ownership

Experiment design

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Prebid

Google Ad Manager

SSPs/DSPs

Identity solutions

Job description

Publift is hiring a Product Manager to own auction optimisation across Prebid and Google Ad Manager, shaping strategy and measurable outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams, align business goals with technical delivery, and drive growth for publisher monetisation.

You will work with data scientists and engineers to design experiments, evaluate partner integrations, and communicate results to executives. Hybrid work options and strong growth potential are offered.