Senior Data Product Manager

The Ozone Project is a rapidly growing digital advertising platform built by many of the UK's best known and most loved publisher brands. This collaboration has created a unique type of company, squarely focused on creating great advertiser experiences online, while also helping to secure a future for great digital content that is grounded in quality journalism and editorial. Our journey is fast, exciting and full of opportunity for everyone in our team, our stakeholders and the industry at large.

The trajectory for our award-winning business is one of unwavering growth. 2021 saw revenues increase by 150%, our publisher portfolio extending across 250+ domains from twelve leading publisher groups, and the launch of a raft of headline-grabbing product innovations. The next phase in our expansion will involve significant growth in our proposition, our capabilities and our talent... Are you up for the challenge?

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead Ozone’s data products, including user identity and the bidding platform’s auction mechanics. We’re looking for someone who is deeply analytical, understands the bidding economy in the ad tech sector, and has led a scrum team or has experience as an analyst or operator and would like to transition to a product role.

Ozone uses data to power media revenue for the entire news brand industry in the UK and many premium news organisations worldwide. This is a unique role that allows you to experiment with data sets and transition the experiments into meaningful product features.

Responsibilities

• You'll take ownership of the data product roadmap, effectively communicating the story that the data tells to customers and others inside the company.

• You'll have ownership of the Ozone experimentation platform, and responsibility to build product definition, and life-cycle management for Ozone’s data products

• You will work together with the Ozone data team (data scientists, data engineers, and analysts) to implement experiments. Results from the experiment will then turn into product features for the auction and audience platforms.

• You will manage the product development lifecycle from start to finish, working closely with stakeholders, product, data and engineering teams

• You'll collaborate with our publishers and commercial teams to connect data sets and develop data models

• You’ll build data experiments and adapt auction mechanics to incorporate findings.

• You’ll use various data signals to build audience identifiers, and work with data scientists to measure accuracy and performance.

• Expert analytical skills with the ability to write SQL and manipulate data using spreadsheets

• Experience in working with key ad technologies inc. Google Ad Manager, prebid server (Open RTB), SSPs, DSPs and data-management platforms

• Adept organisation skills, ability to break down conceptual business problems into tasks that engineers and data scientists can understand.

• We’re growing quickly, and we rely on collaboration, tools, and data to maintain quality products in this environment. You’ll be someone who is comfortable and excited to be in this type of environment, and can realise the value of building efficient processes rather than making one-off decisions

• You’ll have exceptionally strong verbal communication skills at all levels of the organisation and clear, confident business-writing

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, or related technical field preferred

WHAT WE OFFER

• A competitive salary, bonus scheme and AVIVA pension scheme

• 30 days annual leave, plus your birthday off

• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection, to financially support your loved ones if you no longer can

• Employee Assistance Programme with access to a range of wellbeing support and life coaching for you and your family

• Medical cash plan to claim back on a range of health benefits, including dental, optical and physio. Includes 24/7 access to a virtual GP

• Interactive apps with a range of rewards and discounts to treat yourself

• Plus further commitment to support a healthy work/life balance through a mix of office-based and remote hybrid working

The Ozone Project’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood and disability.

If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.