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Product Manager
TeadsLjubljana3-5 years
Apply About Teads
Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.
For more information, visit www.teads.com.
About the opportunity
This role is a Fixed-Term Contract – Maternity Leave Replacement, and it sits within our Native Performance team, reporting directly to the Director of Product, Amplify. The Native Performance team sits at the heart of Teads' advertiser offering. Our mission is to enable performance-focused advertisers to reach their audiences through high-quality native formats (including in-feed, in-article, and banner placements) on the open internet. We drive measurable outcomes by combining native formats with smart automation, AI-powered optimization, and campaign tooling through the Amplify platform.
- Core Mission: Join us on a fixed-term basis (covering a maternity leave) to drive the development, optimization, and scaling of Amplify's native performance capabilities.
- Team Alignment: Partner hand-in-hand with agile engineering squads, product designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into seamless platform features.
- Scope of Ownership: Take full ownership of the Native Performance feature roadmap—guiding features from initial discovery and scoping to shipping and post-launch optimization.
- Impact Metric: Success in this role means maintaining pipeline velocity, shipping key AI and automation initiatives on schedule, and ensuring a seamless transition and continuous feature adoption across global commercial teams during the coverage period.
What will you do?
Strategy & Innovation
- Orchestrate AI & Automation Features: Lead the development of smart, automated capabilities within Amplify, such as automated campaign creation, dynamic setup recommendations, and predictive performance alerts.
- Analyze Market Trends: Conduct competitive analysis and track industry shifts within native and performance advertising to champion new feature opportunities.
- Challenge the Status-Quo: Adopt our collaborative product mantra ("You build it, you run it, you monitor it"), bringing a pragmatic, solution-driven mindset to propose bold platform improvements.
Execution & Flawless Delivery
- Own the Amplify Roadmap: Manage and prioritize the feature backlog, tracking milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks for the Native Performance agile squad.
- Translate Needs into Specs: Write clear, concise product requirements, user stories, and functional specifications for our development teams.
- Lead Agile Ceremonies: Direct sprint planning, review sessions, and blameless retrospectives, serving as a senior product voice within your agile squad.
Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
- Drive Worldwide Feature Rollouts: Partner with product marketing and campaign management teams to ensure smooth, global rollouts of new features, tracking adoption and measuring incremental outcomes.
- Align Cross-Functional Squads: Collaborate with Sales, Account Management, Data Science, and Marketing to build consensus and keep teams aligned around a unified product vision.
What will you bring to the team?
Must-Haves
- Core Experience: 3–5 years of product management experience, specifically within AdTech, digital advertising, or a related high-growth platform environment.
- Domain Expertise: Solid understanding of native advertising formats, performance marketing metrics (CPA, CPC, ROI), and campaign management workflows.
- Execution Track Record: A proven history of translating business objectives into platform solutions and successfully shipping impactful product features.
- Analytical Mindset: Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a high degree of comfort using data to drive roadmap prioritization and product decisions.
- Communication: Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills to bridge the gap between deep technical engineering and commercial business teams.
- Language: Fluent written and verbal communication in English.
- Location/Legalities: Right to work in Slovenia without future visa sponsorship requirements.
Nice-to-Haves
- Hands-on experience working directly with DSPs, SSPs, native ad networks, or global ad-buying tools.
- Experience building or managing products powered by AI/ML algorithms or automated optimization workflows.
- Practical experience working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced agile development environment.
Bonus Points
- You have experience managing a transition or stepping into a maternity-cover product role, showing the adaptability to hit the ground running with an active agile team.
- You bring a strong personal passion for designing clean, intuitive, and high-performance UI/UX flows.
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Life at Teads
At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.
As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:
- We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
- As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
- Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.
Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.
Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.
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.