Lead Product Manager – Advertising

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the global advertising product from start to finish, encompassing the ad-core stack which includes serving, auction, targeting, and measurement across all marketplaces and platforms.

• Enhance advertising revenue beyond listings by utilizing self-serve advertiser tools, programmatic demand, and retail-media formats such as sponsored listings, native ads, and video.

• Oversee the incorporation of ads into AI-native platforms like AutoIQ and agentic search, ensuring a balance between yield and buyer experience.

• Establish and monitor advertising success metrics such as revenue, fill rate, eCPM, advertiser ROI, and the impact on buyer experience.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, Commercial, and Sales teams to develop product capabilities that generate revenue.

• Represent the advertising product at the leadership level, delivering strategy and performance updates to executive stakeholders.

• Report directly to the Head of Product.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive product management experience in digital advertising, ad-tech, monetization, or revenue products at scale.

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling advertising products, including programmatic ads, third-party ads, billing systems, or ad-serving platforms.

• Proven ability to advance advertising or monetization products from the early stages to substantial revenue generation.

• Skill in balancing monetization yield with user experience through evidence-based decisions that weigh revenue against buyer trust.

• Familiarity with an AI-native product approach; experience experimenting with AI tools outside of a professional setting.

• Proficiency in zero-to-one product development: identifying issues, creating prototypes, and delivering final products.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong skills in stakeholder management across commercial, engineering, and executive levels.

• Preferred: experience in retail media, sponsored listings, native advertising, or video ad formats within a marketplace or e-commerce environment.

• Preferred: knowledge of AI-native product surfaces and the integration of advertising with AI experiences.

• Preferred: experience working across multiple markets with varying regulatory and commercial frameworks.

🏝️ Benefits

• OLX is committed to diversity and encourages applicants from all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.

• Optional consent to retain application data for up to 12 months for consideration in future OLX roles.