Perion is a global advertising technology company delivering solutions to the biggest brands and publishers around the globe across search, social media and display, video, CTV, and programmatic DOOH.
Home to an award-winning technology solution –– with our unique data-driven AI/ML based technologies, we deliver and optimize hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of events per day. We’re working with dozens of sources to provide a superior experience across screens and platforms, including mobile, video, social and native.
Location: Paris or Montpellier.
About the roleWe’re looking for a Product Manager with strong ad tech experience to lead products that sit at the intersection of advertising platforms, data, and algorithmic decisioning. You’ll own a roadmap focused on improving performance and scalability across DSPs, Ad platforms and networks.
This role is ideal for someone who is autonomous, highly analytical, and excited about building products powered by innovative algorithms.
What you’ll do- Own the product strategy and roadmap for algorithm-driven ad tech products
- Translate business goals into product requirements for data science and engineering teams, turning ambiguous problems into specs and success metrics.
- Work deeply with advertising platforms / DSPs (e.g., DV360, Amazon DSP, Meta, Google Ads, etc.) to help shape and define integrations, constraints, and opportunities.
- Drive experimentation and iteration: Assist Tech teams in A/B tests, model evaluations, and performance analyses to continuously improve outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, Engineering, Sales, and Ops to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor product performance through dashboards and analytics, creating insights and proposing improvements proactively.
- Lead discovery with customers & internal stakeholders, gathering feedback, validating pain points, and shaping solutions.
- Manage execution autonomously, keeping delivery on track while communicating tradeoffs clearly.
- 3+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in ad tech or programmatic platforms.
- Hands-on experience with DSPs / ad platforms and the programmatic ecosystem (RTB auctions, Social, SSPs, data providers, measurement partners).
- Strong understanding of algorithms in advertising, such as bidding optimization, budget allocation, pacing, attribution, forecasting, targeting, or recommendation systems.
- Analytical and data-driven mindset: comfortable defining KPIs, building measurement frameworks, and using data to prioritize and validate decisions.
- High autonomy and ownership: you thrive without heavy process, proactively find answers, and push initiatives forward.
- Excellent communication skills: you can explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Stakeholders trust your clarity, prioritization, and delivery.
- The product roadmap is coherent, customer-driven, and tied to business outcomes.
- Work on real-world, high-scale ad tech problems with direct impact on performance and revenue cross-market.
- Close collaboration with strong Data Science and Engineering teams.
- High-ownership environment where PMs have real autonomy and visible impact.
- Opportunity to help build the next generation of algorithmic advertising products.
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What We Do
Perion is a global technology innovator in the digital advertising ecosystem, providing brands and publishers with an opportunity to unlock lucrative growth opportunities. The company's synergistic solutions serve all major digital advertising channels - including search, social, display, and video/CTV.
