Lead Product Manager – Advertising

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Lead the integration of advertisements into AI-driven surfaces like AutoIQ and agentic search, striking 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 capabilities that drive revenue growth.

• Represent the advertising product at the leadership level, delivering strategy and results to executive audiences.

• Report directly to the Head of Product.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Experience in advancing advertising or monetization products from initial stages to substantial revenue generation.

• Ability to balance monetization yield with user experience, making data-driven trade-offs between revenue and buyer trust.

• AI-native product mindset; adept at building with AI and experimenting with AI tools.

• Zero-to-one product mentality; identifies challenges, develops prototypes, and delivers solutions.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity.

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

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

• Preferred: familiarity with AI-native product surfaces and advertising integration with AI experiences.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Opportunity to be considered for other openings within OLX.

• Option to consent to data storage for up to 12 months for consideration in future OLX roles.