Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization

Overview

This role is for a Senior Product Manager specializing in ad monetization based in Ireland, representing a partner company. The position provides a unique opportunity to lead the product strategy for a growing ad monetization platform aimed at mobile app developers. You will be part of a small, focused product and engineering team, assuming comprehensive responsibility for the product roadmap from initial discovery through to delivery and refinement.

Your main goal will be to enable mobile developers to maximize advertising revenue, while contributing to the evolution of a cutting-edge strategic product area. Collaboration will be key, working alongside teams in engineering, design, data, and go-to-market in a flexible, remote-first setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead major segments of the ad monetization product roadmap, managing discovery, prioritization, execution, and evaluation of results.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of current ad monetization systems such as ad revenue tracking, rewarded advertising frameworks, virtual currencies, entitlement mechanisms, and server-side reward validations.
• Engage directly with customers to uncover challenges, assess current solutions, identify gaps, and discover impactful opportunities.
• Collaborate tightly with engineering and design teams to outline product requirements, investigate technical possibilities, test assumptions, and deliver practical, timely solutions.
• Apply customer research, experimentation, data analysis, and market insights to validate hypotheses and strategically prioritize investments.
• Understand the mobile advertising landscape including inventory, demand-side factors, auction dynamics, pricing strategies, mediation, measurement techniques, and revenue models.
• Navigate product decision-making by balancing technical feasibility, business objectives, and customer needs, clearly communicating decisions to stakeholders.
• Define priorities and make sound choices amidst uncertainty and evolving strategic directions.
• Deliver substantial product enhancements that create measurable monetization benefits and fuel growth of the ad monetization product line.
• Regularly assess product performance and use evidence-based insights to adjust plans by refocusing, pausing, or discontinuing initiatives that underperform.
• Craft a well-founded, data-driven long-term vision and roadmap for the ad monetization segment.
• Forge strong cross-functional relationships across product, engineering, design, data, go-to-market teams, and senior leadership.
• Maintain comprehensive awareness of customer demands, vendor environments, competitors, and industry trends.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on advertising and monetization, guiding broader teams toward informed business and product decisions.
• Within the initial year, establish primary ownership of the ad monetization product domain, laying a robust foundation for its future expansion.

Required Qualifications

• More than five years' experience in owning product decision-making and outcomes end-to-end, in roles such as Product Manager or founder with substantial product leadership.
• Proven track record of designing and launching publisher-facing ad monetization products for mobile platforms.
• Deep understanding of mobile advertising components, including inventory management, demand sources, auction mechanics, pricing, mediation methods, measurement, and monetization models.
• Insight into the incentives and commercial drivers for various stakeholders within the advertising ecosystem.
• Capability to analyze technical and commercial impacts of product choices effectively.
• Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate closely with engineering on SDKs, APIs, data integrations, and complex product challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for opportunity identification, hypothesis-driven development, rapid iteration, and learning from real user feedback.
• Entrepreneurial mindset ready to take initiative on early-stage projects and scale them into impactful product lines.
• Comfort with ambiguity, aptitude for making decisions under uncertainty, and accountability for results.
• Strong focus on customer needs and a genuine commitment to enhancing developer monetization outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills tailored for technical, commercial, and executive audiences.
• Collaborative nature with capacity to build productive relationships across diverse teams.
• Analytical, pragmatic, and evidence-based approach to product development and prioritization.

Employee Benefits

• Competitive equity offerings allowing participation in the company's long-term growth trajectory.
• A generous 10-year window to exercise vested stock options.
• Completely remote work setup emphasizing independence, flexibility, and distributed collaboration.
• 4 to 5 weeks of flexible paid vacation annually.
• Subsidized coworking or desk facilities.
• Allocated budget for dedicated home workspace setup.
• Funds designated for ongoing professional development and learning.
• Opportunity to deliver products at scale serving a global developer community.

Additional Information

This role is facilitated by a partner company which manages applications and recruitment processes directly. The hiring decisions and subsequent steps, such as interviews and assessments, are controlled by their internal team.

The application process leverages AI technologies to objectively and efficiently shortlist candidates based on core job requirements. Although AI assists recruitment, all final decisions rest with human evaluators.

Note on Data Privacy: By applying, candidates consent to personal data processing as per applicable laws including GDPR, with rights to access, correct, or request deletion of their data.