Senior Product Manager

Who we are

Venatus is an award-winning, global ad tech platform that connects advertisers to the exclusive audiences of 500+, world renowned gaming and entertainment publishers. We are tech first. We are gamers. We are the difference makers. Because when it comes to helping the world's most recognisable brands such as EA, Nintendo and Rovio produce outstanding advertising campaigns, our in house creative team alongside our direct and programmatic ad sales have an unrivaled track record.

Our game changing investment from leading private equity firm, LivingBridge makes this an exceptionally exciting time to join the company. Venatus has ambitious growth and expansion plans, launching new products and opening even more international offices. London is our HQ with regional offices in Amsterdam, New York, LA, Toronto, Sydney, Seoul and Manila.

Why you should work with us

Venatus is an extremely ambitious company and we pride ourselves on our open and supportive culture. Our talented employees stay loyal to our business due to the regular learning opportunities and experience of working directly with industry experts. We empower people to succeed, welcoming innovative ideas and ways of working that will ultimately help the business grow. We offer a fluid approach to hybrid working, giving employees the freedom to produce their best work, wherever they are. Joining Venatus is a play for the top. You'll be challenged in positive ways, learn rapidly and develop a career in one of the most captivating industries in the world. You will be able to develop both professionally and as an individual, carving a career path that engages and excites you.

What we're looking for

Our Senior Product Manager, Platform and Optimization will own two key areas within Product, supporting our suite of released features and the successful optimisation of them through our in house experimentation and A/B testing capabilities.

Reporting directly to our CPO, you'll be first line support to our business teams for our 150+ production features and will ensure we maintain operational excellence while fully optimising and tuning our platform.

Key Responsibilities Support Product Excellence

• Become an expert on both the client facing and internal facing sides of our Prosper platform for our growing set of product features and data products.
• Own the triage function for all business facing production features, serving as first line support for business teams and the product point of contact for Engineering.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog for active issues and select feature improvements.
• Research and author product tickets and related product artifacts (eg: PRDs) for areas under your ownership.
• Partner with our CPO and feature focused product managers to ensure alignment across maintenance and innovation efforts.

Data Driven Optimization Enablement

• Lead adoption and enablement of our evolving experimentation and A/B testing platform, ensuring business teams have the knowledge, skills, and support to utilise it fully and effectively.
• Partner with business teams to design, launch, and analyse robust experiments and optimisation strategies that drive measurable impact, maximising uplift and performance potential.
• Translate experiment results into platform improvements and feature enhancements.

Knowledge Management

• Document and maintain comprehensive knowledge of platform business logic for released features across the full Venatus product portfolio.
• Create feature demos and contribute to ongoing product education for business facing teams.
• Build and maintain the institutional knowledge base that ensures platform expertise isn't siloed.

Your Skills and Experience Essential Requirements

• Hands on product management in ad monetisation platforms integrated with Prebid and Google Ad Manager ecosystems via either a managed service product, a self service product, or an in house platform for a publishing company.
• Deep expertise in desktop display advertising.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated success in data driven revenue optimisation of advertising products, including via an experimentation or A/B testing system.
• Expert knowledge of programmatic advertising concepts: header bidding, auction dynamics, bid flooring, traffic shaping.
• Experience with consent management technologies (GPP, TCF, CCPA) for US and European markets.
• Proven track record managing product lifecycles including triage, backlog ownership, and iterative feature refinement.
• Technical proficiency to understand and document complex business logic and data product interactions.
• Comfort working in fast paced, lean environments with evolving priorities.
• Business level verbal and written English.

Strongly Desired

• Experience with video and rich media formats (takeovers/skins, high impact units).
• Integration of audience profiling and identity technologies.
• SQL proficiency and experience with Tableau or similar BI tools.
• Mobile app monetisation expertise or desktop app monetisation.
• Experience with ML/AI driven features in advertising technology.
• One or more recognised product management certifications (CSPO, PMI ACP).

About Prosper

The Prosper platform delivers game changing results for our gaming and entertainment publishers. With leading optimisation and multi format ad support, Prosper's smart ad engine automatically surfaces the most profitable ad combinations for every page load.

The platform features an intuitive dashboard with transparent bidder level reporting, enabling publishers to track page RPMs, session RPMs, fill rates and more through customisable reports. With Prosper's Easy Tagging system, set up is seamless whether running MPA, SPA, or anything in between, ensuring our clients start seeing results faster.

Benefits

As we are hiring for this role across multiple locations, specific benefits may vary. If you are selected to interview, our People team will provide you with full details of the benefits package available in your region.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We understand that the best ideas are born from the collaboration of diverse minds, spanning all races, religions, ethnicities, genders and orientations. We are dedicated to making Venatus a safe, happy place to be, allowing everyone to feel comfortable and confident in order to produce their best work. We employ a range of talent that represents the diverse creativity of our industry and we are proud of our growing teams of employees who share these values.

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