Senior Product Manager

Truecaller; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and development allowance

Flexible workspace options

Vibrant office culture

Lab Days for innovation

Job summary

Truecaller is seeking a Product Manager to lead programmatic ads monetization, focusing on driving revenue growth through innovative solutions. The candidate will manage the end-to-end charter of programmatic offerings while collaborating closely with engineering and data teams to optimize performance and enhance user relevance.

Responsibilities include defining product strategy, improving eCPMs and fill rates, and managing partner strategies. Applicants should have 4-5 years of experience in product management, particularly in the programmatic space. Join a diverse team at Truecaller where creativity and action are valued!

Qualifications

• 4 to 5 years of product management experience required.
• Understanding of programmatic bidding and auction design preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with SQL proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Drive product roadmap for programmatic monetization.
• Improve revenue through smart auction design.
• Lead cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively.

Skills

Product management experience

Programmatic ecosystem knowledge

Ad-tech fluency

SQL proficiency

Analytical skills

Strategic thinking

Job description

Join Truecaller – The place where innovation meets impact!

Truecaller's mission is to build trust in communication by making it safer, smarter, and more efficient. Born in Sweden, trusted by the world, and here’s why we stand out:

• We are trusted by over 450 million active users every month across 190+ countries
• We identify over 15 billion calls daily, helping users avoid spam and scams
• We are powered by a team of 450+ employees from 45+ nationalities

We always look for people who take initiative, own their work, and keep raising the bar. An entrepreneurial mindset matters here, especially when it turns bold ideas into real actions. We stay collaborative and focused, always searching for smarter paths forward. If you want to make an impact and grow with a team that inspires millions, you’ll fit right in.

The role

We at Ads Product are all about making Ads more meaningful & relevant to our users and helping drive marketing objectives for our partners/advertisers. Ads is one of the ways Truecaller monetizes the app, and thus holds a critical role in driving Truecaller revenues. Truecaller is one of the largest standalone publishers in India and is growing quickly in international markets globally.

Responsible for - Driving revenue growth for Truecaller by building ads solutions and selling our ads offerings to our advertising partners globally.

We work at a planetary scale, serving billions of ad impressions daily. This is serious performance engineering! Truecaller has more than 500 million users globally, and our products need to run flawlessly on all of them.

We are looking for a Product Manager to own our Programmatic Ads Monetization stack end-to-end. This is a high-ownership, high-agency role at the heart of how Truecaller makes money - touching everything across the core ads platform from SDK on the device to the server-side in the back-end, supply strategy, and demand partnerships strategy.

What you’ll do

• Own the Programmatic charter end-to-end
  • Drive the product roadmap for programmatic monetization for Truecaller
  • Define and execute the strategy for how our supply is structured, packaged, and exposed to programmatic demand
  • Work closely with Engineering to ship reliable, low-latency systems at billions-of-requests scale
• Drive yield and revenue growth
  • Improve eCPMs, fill rates, and overall yield through smarter auction design, floor pricing, and supply-demand matching
  • Build meaningful segmentation across users, placements, and contexts to improve user relevance, ad request efficiency and overall yield
  • Identify and unlock new programmatic revenue streams
• Own the Demand Partner strategy
  • Drive the product roadmap that manages a large portfolio of programmatic partners across oRTB, SDK, Open Bidding at massive scale
  • Build a healthier supply-demand equation - shape the right traffic to the right partners with the right signals
  • Continuously evaluate the partner mix and rationalize where needed
• Experimentation and problem solving
  • Design and run experiments end-to-end with rigor on hypothesis, measurement, and rollout
  • Dive into ambiguous problems - auction dynamics, bid floor strategy, latency trade-offs, supply quality - and structure them into shippable bets
• Cross-functional leadership
  • Work closely with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Partnerships, Cross-functional PM teams to align on priorities and unblock execution
  • Communicate clearly with senior leadership on strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes

What you bring in

• 4 to 5 years of product management experience, with prior programmatic product experience strongly preferred (publisher side a plus)
• Deep understanding of the programmatic ecosystem - Bidding, oRTB, header bidding, Open Bidding, SDK mediation, and the dynamics of modern auction design
• Ad-tech fluency - comfortable in building under constraints of latency, caching, SDK behaviors, server-side architecture
• Strong analytical chops - SQL proficiency and the ability to dig into data yourself rather than waiting for a dashboard
• High bias for action, high ownership, and a "get things done" attitude in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
• Strategic thinking paired with willingness to roll up sleeves on the smallest details

What we offer

We support growth through learning resources, leadership programs, mentoring, and real hands-on work. People can move between teams and projects to build new skills and keep things interesting. We offer clear internal mobility and a transparent path for progression, with leaders who stay involved and provide guidance throughout the year. In addition, you will benefit from:

• A comprehensive compensation package: Learning and development allowance, voluntary provident fund (VPF) and/or national pension scheme (NPS) tax saving option provided, creche allowance
• Modern tools to do your best work: Choose your preferred computer and phone within our budget, so you can work comfortably and efficiently.
• A people-focused office culture: We value in-person collaboration and follow an office-first model, with some flexibility. Our offices offer a vibrant environment with opportunities to learn, connect, and recharge, from breakfast, lunch and quiet spaces to team activities such as movie nights, tech meetups, and cultural events. There's something for everyone.
• Truecaller’s “Lab Days” offer a space for imagination: 5 days each quarter, where everyone steps away from their normal tasks to explore new, bold ideas and build things they’ve always wanted to. It’s a space where curiosity leads the way, and prototypes take shape. Some concepts even make it into production, and a few have grown into real features used by millions today. Lab Days allow you to be creative, learn fast, and help shape Truecaller's future.

Come as you are

Truecaller is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe that a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences strengthens our products and our culture. No matter where you're from, what language you speak, or how you identify, we value what makes you unique and would love to get to know you.