Product Manager

**We are Teads**:
Outbrain Inc. (Nasdaq: OB) and Teads S.A. combined on February 3, 2025 and are operating under the new Teads brand. The new Teads is the omnichannel outcomes platform for the open internet, driving full-funnel results for marketers across premium media.

**What will you do?**:
As **Senior Product Manager**, (Programmatic), you will own the product lifecycle from strategy to execution. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to identify market opportunities, define clear objectives, and drive the development of solutions that excite our customers and improve the efficiency and scalability of our programmatic offerings.

**Shape the product roadmap**:

- Gather and analyze needs from internal and external stakeholders, including sales teams, traders, clients and our partners (DSP, platform, etc.)
- Identify and explore business and market opportunities through competitive intelligence and market analysis
- Define and communicate a strategic product vision and roadmap priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders
- Maintain a structured roadmap and communicate updates regularly to manage stakeholder expectations and build momentum

**Manage product development & roll-out**:

- Define product requirements and innovative solution design, balancing complexity and value, and support functional decisions with data-driven analysis as appropriate
- Define clear objectives and success metrics for each initiative, monitoring progress and performance
- Collaborate closely with engineering to execute the product roadmap strategy and ensure qualitative & on-track delivery.
- Collaborate closely with project delivery support teams, e.g., product marketing, to define & execute the go-to-market strategy and maximize product adoption

**Drive technical innovation & scalability**
- Lead the strategy to unify & optimise our programmatic infrastructure, including RTB integrations and PMP management tools
- Identify & explore technical & operational strategies / synergies to scale PMP delivery
- Define & execute a recalibration strategy for open auction to maximize efficiency and yield, in close collaboration with the data science teams
- Oversee the technical onboarding of new DSP & programmatic partners
- Ensure robust and optimised technical integrations with existing DSP & other programmatic partners for frictionless & scalable operations

**What will you bring to the team?**:
**Your skills and experiences**:

- Experience in a business, product, or strategy role, ideally in a tech or programmatic advertising company (eg: SSP, DSP)
- A strong appetite for product, with the ability to translate business needs into product solutions
- 5+years expertise in the programmatic environment, ideally with hands-on experience using major DSPs (DV360, Amazon, The Trade Desk, etc.) including campaign setup, optimization, performance analysis
- Experience with the majority of SSPs
- Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture and understand how a product fits into our overall business and strategy
- Ability to grasp technical concepts, collaborate effectively with engineering teams, and understand the underlying architecture of programmatic platforms
- Excellent analytical and communication skills, with a data-driven mindset
- Fluent in English and experienced in working with cross-functional teams
- Resourceful, self-starter, and team player
- Strong organizational and time management skills

**Nice-to-have**:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, marketing or related field
- Experience in product management & project management in tech companies

**Why work at Teads?**:
At Teads, Product and Engineering work hand in hand and are aligned towards the same goal: to **scale our business** while continuing to create **new and exciting products**.
- We value **team spirit**, **pragmatism**, **listening** and we encourage **initiatives**.
- We promote **end-to-end development**: “You build it, you run it, you monitor it”.
- We **share knowledge** and support with each other beyond any organizational boundary.
- We fix issues during a **blameless** postmortem and learn from it so that it doesn’t happen twice.
- We are working together to create **great engineering**, but we are also supportive to promote a great **work-life balance**.

**Life at Teads**:

- Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.
- Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.
- Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups -employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.

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