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.
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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.