Senior Product Manager AdEx

Team

The Times Media (Product Team) is organized around three core pillars of The Times product: Customer, Content, and Monetisation. You will be joining the Monetisation programme, which focuses on non-subscription digital revenue and is divided into three key areas: Commerce, Diversification, and Advertising Experience (AdEx). As part of this dynamic group, you will lead the AdEx Tribe, driving strategy across the tribe while directly guiding the Direct Advertising Squad to maximize growth and value across our digital ecosystem.

Role

As our Senior Product Manager for Advertising Experience, you will guide our commercial product strategy, setting a clear vision for advertising products across The Times. Reporting directly to the Principal Product Manager, Monetisation, you will sit at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and commercial teams. This role is an exciting opportunity to balance short term revenue opportunities with long term digital sustainability, building high impact solutions that elevate user experiences across our apps and websites.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and commercial product strategy for advertising products across The Times, aligning the Advertising Experience Tribe with broader product and commercial goals.
• Define and deliver prioritised commercial advertising roadmaps that balance immediate revenue opportunities with long term user experience health.
• Collaborate cross functionally with Editorial, Product Design, and Commercial teams to co design native, high yield advertising experiences directly within new content templates, ensuring commercial goals respect reader trust.
• Partner with Commercial Tech teams as a strategic counterpart to guide our underlying ad stack and drive scalable, modular platform capabilities.
• Drive continuous experimentation and an evidence led approach to advertising by validating or invalidating assumptions through A/B testing and customer insights.
• Own high impact OKRs and metrics across AdEx, proactively tracking performance data to communicate targets, opportunities, and results clearly to stakeholders.
• Foster product excellence across the advertising function, identifying opportunities to elevate how complex monetisation problems are framed, refined, and solved.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a commercial advertising focused product role, paired with a solid understanding of Ad Tech.
• Proven ability collaborating closely with engineering teams to navigate technical execution and balance shared technology infrastructure with unique business needs.
• Deep structural understanding of digital yield drivers, including eCPMs, first party audience data segmentation, and the nuances of direct premium sponsorships versus programmatic backfill.
• Strong literacy in the modern privacy and identity landscape, including tracking constraints and first party data collection strategies.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, demonstrated by your ability to influence and align cross functional leaders across editorial, commercial, and technical domains behind a unified vision.
• An analytical, experimental mindset focused on framing, refining, and solving complex problems through data backed testing.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/virtual exercise classes
• Bikes for Work and Electric Car scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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