Senior Technical Product Manager, Advertising ML

Xsolla
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Written communication","Stakeholder management"]

Own the recommendation engine for advertising products by defining ranking objectives, constraints, guardrails, and the roadmap for optimizing eCPM. Set and maintain key metric definitions, collaborate with ML teams on experiment design and inference validation, and translate model readouts into clear business decisions. Partner with DS, analytics, ads operations, and commercial teams to connect ranking performance to revenue while shaping the wider ads roadmap.

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Senior Technical Product Manager, Advertising ML

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Job Summary

Own the recommendation engine for advertising products by defining ranking objectives, constraints, guardrails, and the roadmap for optimizing eCPM. Set and maintain key metric definitions, collaborate with ML teams on experiment design and inference validation, and translate model readouts into clear business decisions. Partner with DS, analytics, ads operations, and commercial teams to connect ranking performance to revenue while shaping the wider ads roadmap.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the recommendation engine as a product, including ranking quality, relevance, and the model roadmap.
  • •Define the ranking objective, constraints, guardrails, and kill conditions (targeting eCPM).
  • •Own metric definitions and resolve definitional questions linking model outputs to publisher RPU and impression/user denominators.
  • •Collaborate on ML frameworks and experiment processes (hold-outs, pre-registered rules, power calculations, A/A, multiplicity correction, rollback triggers).
  • •Partner with DS and ads roadmap teams to connect model readouts to revenue outcomes and future ranking/pricing/identity/event telemetry seams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years in product management, including 3+ years owning a recommendation, ranking, personalization, or relevance system in production.
  • •Deep understanding of experiment design and inference (MDE, statistical power, sample-ratio mismatch, A/A testing, multiple-comparison correction, pre-registration) and how to interpret readouts.
  • •Working knowledge of modeling for ranking/relevance (classification/regression, probability calibration, predicted conversion rate, expected-value objectives).
  • •Hands-on experience with ML and data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Airflow, dbt, MLFlow, Vertex AI, and feature stores.
  • •SQL you write yourself, plus enough comfort reading application code to verify claims; Bachelor’s or Master’s in a relevant field (CS, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or related).
Experience:AdvertisingAd techMachine learningRecommendation systemsPersonalizationExperimentation
Education:
Skills:Written communicationStakeholder management
Tech Stack:SnowflakeBigQuerySparkAirflowDbtMLFlowVertex AIFeature storesSQL

Company Brief

Xsolla
Provides payment, billing, distribution and commerce solutions for video game developers and publishers, enabling in-game purchases, store infrastructure, fraud protection, and global payment processing to monetize games across platforms and regions.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2005
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