Lead Product Manager – Advertising

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the global advertising product from beginning to end, encompassing serving, auction, targeting, and measurement across all marketplaces and platforms.

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

• Manage the integration of advertisements into AI-native surfaces like AutoIQ and agentic search, ensuring a balance between yield and buyer experience.

• Define and monitor advertising success metrics, including 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 drive revenue growth.

• Represent the advertising product at the leadership level, presenting strategy and results 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.

• A proven history of building and scaling advertising products, including programmatic ads, third-party ads, billing systems, or ad-serving platforms.

• Experience in advancing advertising or monetization products from their early stages to generating significant revenue.

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

• An AI-native mindset: creating solutions with AI and exploring AI tools.

• A zero-to-one product mentality: identifying problems, developing prototypes, and delivering products.

• Comfort in 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 within a marketplace or e-commerce setting.

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

• Preferred: multi-market experience across diverse regulatory and commercial environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.