Product Manager, Publishers (m/f/d)

Purpose of Position

Contribute to and execute against the product roadmap for Awin’s Publisher-facing platform, with a core focus on the re-development of Awin’s product feed and data capabilities. Work closely with senior product leadership, engineering, and commercial teams to deliver features that improve the publisher experience and drive measurable outcomes.

Key Tasks

Product Strategy & Vision

• Own and communicate a clear, compelling product vision for the Publisher Tribe that aligns with Awin’s broader business strategy.
• Define and maintain a prioritised product roadmap, balancing short-term publisher needs with long-term platform investment.

Publisher Experience

• Own the full publisher lifecycle experience on the Awin platform, from sign-up and advertiser discovery through to performance management and optimisation.
• Identify friction points and opportunities to improve publisher activation, engagement, and retention.
• Develop scalable self-serve capabilities that allow publishers to grow with less dependency on managed support.

Product Feed & Data Re-development

• Lead the strategic redesign and re-development of Awin’s product feed infrastructure, including feed ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, and distribution.
• Define technical requirements and work closely with engineering to improve feed reliability, data quality, and scalability.
• Explore and define new product data use cases that unlock incremental value for publishers (e.g. Recommendations, inventory updates, category intelligence).

Skills & Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in product management, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering squads and drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to define clear product requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
• Strong understanding of the full product lifecycle from discovery to delivery and iteration.
• Comfortable using data to define KPIs, design experiments, and communicate product impact.
• Demonstrated track record of owning complex, technically demanding products and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Experience working with data-intensive or feed/API-based products; familiarity with product feeds, data pipelines, or e-commerce data infrastructure is a strong advantage.
• Customer-focused mindset with experience turning user insights into impactful product improvements.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers on architecture, data modelling, and technical trade-offs, not just requirements.
• Genuine curiosity about publisher needs; skilled at synthesising qualitative and quantitative signals into insight.
• Connecting product decisions to commercial outcomes and long-term platform differentiation.
• Ability to create clarity and momentum in cross-functional teams, especially in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Ability to translate technical complexity for commercial audiences and commercial context for engineering teams.
• Bias toward shipping and learning; comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
• Skilled at influencing and aligning across levels, including senior leadership.

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Health & Well Being: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being. .
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover a part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.
• We are hiring in multiple countries, additional benefits in terms of health, well being, security and more will be discussed further upon first initial interview with the talent team.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why  

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.