Product Manager - AdTech

Product Manager - AdTech

Curious About our Recruiting Process?

The interview process at applike group is seamless, fast, and fun for you! Recruiting is a two-way street, so that’s why our process is designed for both you and us to get to know each other. Our Talent Acquisition team is there to guide you through the process, making sure you will receive the best candidate experience. The process is usually divided into 5 major steps:

Recruiting FAQs

Screening Process

Simply apply with your updated resume, we don’t need any cover letters or additional documents. If you have a relevant protfolio, you can of course share this as well. After reviewing, we will get in touch with you quickly.

First Interview

In the first interview you will meet someone from the Talent Acquisition team to get to know more about the company, our culture and the open role.

Case Study Step

We designed this step to get a deeper understanding of your skills and also give you some insights into tasks that might be awaiting you in the new role.

Final Interviews

In the final interviews you will get the chance to meet you future Lead, Team and also Managing Director to get the full picture of what it could be like working here.

The offer

Finally – after clearing all steps successfully, you are going to receive an offer from our side. Congrats, we want you on our team! … and we hope you accept the offer and join us! 🙂

Your Mission & Who We Are Looking For:

Programmatic AdTech Domain Expertise: 3–4 years of Product Management experience (with at least 3 years directly in Programmatic, Ad Exchange, SSP, or DSP environments) to lead our DSP-facing ad exchange capabilities across their full lifecycle. You thrive when dissecting OpenRTB specs, auction mechanics, and mobile formats (video, playable, native, display) to turn programmatic complexities into clear product roadmaps.

Technical Infrastructure & API Fluency: Hands-on comfort working alongside senior engineers to parse system architecture, API designs, JSON data payloads, and latency tracking. You will bridge technical execution with business strategy across a platform running 20+ Go microservices on Kubernetes and Kafka, orchestrating 1,500 bid requests per second.

Auction Mechanics & Traffic Shaping: Deep analytical capability to optimize win rates, timeout rates, bid density, and Supply Path Optimization (SPO). You will design smart throttling and routing logic that reduces infrastructure QPS costs while maximizing revenue across 120M processed auctions daily.

Cross-Functional Partner Integration: Direct technical collaboration with the Demand Partnerships team and external partners to lead DSP onboardings and maintain OpenRTB compliance. You act as the translation layer between client feedback, external demand needs, and detailed Product

Requirements

• Documents (PRDs).

• Data-Driven Metric Ownership: Relentless focus on defining and monitoring core performance indicators including fill rate, bid rate, CPM, and eCPM. You will partner with data teams to analyze complex data sets, troubleshoot technical issues, and measure feature performance alongside ML models making 50 billion daily predictions.

• Agile Product Delivery: Proven track record of owning end-to-end execution, experimentation, and scaling in an Agile environment. You manage multi-stakeholder dependencies cleanly and ship high-throughput features iteratively without sacrificing low-latency requirements.

• 🌎 We welcome applications from talent worldwide and provide relocation support to Hamburg, Germany for those ready to join our team.

• What’s in It for You?

• At adjoe, you’re not here to just close JIRA tickets, you’re helping build the infrastructure behind one of the most impactful platforms in adtech. The systems you work on will reach hundreds of millions of users and power billions of decisions every day.

• Go Big. Own projects with impact on 770M users and push adtech boundaries.

• Move Fast. Ship solutions multiple times a day, learn from results, and keep momentum.

• Be Direct. Solve problems openly and collaborate across teams.

• Thrive Together. Grow with a diverse, global team of people from over 40 different countries that learn from each other.

• Have Fun. Celebrate wins, enjoy daily victories, and bring your energy.

• Our mission is to create an inspiring work environment for amazing people to achieve extraordinary things. Be part of it!

• Tips & Tricks to Nail Your Interviews!

• Since we want to keep everything fast and easy for you, we don’t want you to waste time on a cover letter – we would rather take a look at your CV and if it’s a match, we directly invite you to a first call.

• Test your internet connection, camera, mic, and speakers beforehand. Time for each interview is limited, and we’d like to spend as much of it as possible on getting to know each other. If the interview is online, always have your camera on! It’s way easier to create a meaningful interaction if we also see each other.

• We will give you all the information about the role & company’s culture, but it’s always nice to see how you perceive us after doing some online detective work. 😉

• We will certainly ask you to briefly summarize your work experiences in a short overview. Think of what you’re going to say beforehand so you can fit all of the essential information in 2-3 minutes. Keep the goal of the interview in mind, and make sure everything you say is relevant to the position you’re applying for.

• Be specific, but don’t get caught up in details – following the STAR method can help you: Situation (set the scene and give the necessary details of your example) – Task (describe what your responsibility was in that situation) – Action ( explain exactly what steps you took to address it) – Result (share what outcomes your actions achieved).

• It is a recruiting process, but this doesn’t mean you can’t loosen up and showcase your personality. We are looking for an authentic character and we are open to having some small talk or a funny joke thrown into the mix. This might even show us that you’re a good cultural fit. Remember, next to all our ambition we like to have fun!

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