Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization
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Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization
Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization needed for a partner company in the Netherlands, owning the product strategy for an emerging ad monetization business serving mobile app developers. Requires 5+ years of end-to-end product ownership and proven experience building publisher-facing ad monetization products for mobile applications. The role is on-site, full-time, and combines deep mobile advertising knowledge with strong product judgment, technical fluency, and an entrepreneurial approach.
Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization
Senior Product Manager, Ad Monetization needed for a partner company in the Netherlands, owning the product strategy for an emerging ad monetization business serving mobile app developers. Requires 5+ years of end-to-end product ownership and proven experience building publisher-facing ad monetization products for mobile applications. The role is on-site, full-time, and combines deep mobile advertising knowledge with strong product judgment, technical fluency, and an entrepreneurial approach.
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Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Own significant portions of the ad monetization product roadmap, taking responsibility for product discovery, prioritization, execution, and outcomes.
- Develop a deep understanding of existing ad monetization capabilities, including ad revenue tracking, rewarded-ad infrastructure, virtual currency, entitlement flows, and server-side reward validation.
- Engage directly with customers to understand their challenges, evaluate existing products, identify unmet needs, and uncover high-impact opportunities.
- Partner closely with engineering and design to define product requirements, explore technical solutions, validate hypotheses, and ship pragmatic solutions quickly.
- Build and test product hypotheses using customer research, experimentation, data, and market insights to determine where to invest.
- Develop a strong understanding of the mobile advertising ecosystem, including publisher inventory, demand sources, auctions, pricing, mediation, measurement, and monetization models.
- Balance technical, commercial, and customer considerations when making product decisions and communicate clear recommendations to stakeholders.
- Establish priorities and make informed decisions in an environment with significant ambiguity and strategic flexibility.
- Ship meaningful improvements that create measurable monetization value for customers and contribute to the growth of the ad monetization product area.
- Continuously evaluate product performance and use evidence to refine, stop, change, or deprioritize initiatives when they are not delivering expected value.
- Develop a clear, evidence-backed long-term product vision and roadmap for ad monetization.
- Build strong relationships across product, engineering, design, data, and go-to-market functions, as well as with senior stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of customer needs, vendor ecosystems, competitive dynamics, and relevant industry trends.
- Act as a domain expert on advertising and monetization, helping broader teams make informed product and business decisions.
- During the first year, take primary individual-contributor ownership of the ad monetization product area and establish a meaningful foundation for its continued growth.