Product Manager (Commercial)

Product Manager (Commercial)

London/UK Based

We’re seeking a brilliant, creative and curious Product Manager with commercial experience to join an ambitious and customer-obsessed product team. This position presents a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to grow their career in commercial product management as you apply your market knowledge to influence the continual development of Blis’ platform.

This is a global role that sits within the, primarily UK-based, Blis Product & Product Marketing team and you will be working collaboratively at the leading edge of ad tech innovation with experts across every aspect of our platform and the wider industry.

Blis’ Commercial Product Team focus on product strategy, product partnerships and product training. All roles within the team work across each of these areas with different levels of focus; the Product Manager, Commercial will primarily work on Audience Explorer, Blis’ unique audience planning and measurement tool, and the partnerships that play a vital role in the platform’s continued success. They will have a direct impact on the success of our business and work at the leading edge of innovation in the ad tech industry.

The position is full-time, based provisionally in London with some flexibility. We’ve embraced flexible working and expect this to continue indefinitely, but regular onsite visits will be required for both internal meetings, partner meetings and supporting commercial teams in client sessions, with occasional travel to international Blis markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive our product roadmap as it relates to the data partnerships that play a hugely valuable role in our platform. This relates to evaluating and onboarding new data opportunities as well as continuing to deploy and grow existing partnerships.
• Be the expert on Audience Explorer, Blis’ unique audience planning tool, assisting commercial teams and clients in their ongoing learning and understanding of new platform features.
• Partner closely with the technical product and product marketing teams to a) feed into the product roadmap based on your experience working with customers, colleagues & your understanding of the market trends and b) support the go-to-market of new platform features.
• Commitment to Blis' Inclusion initiatives & 5 step sustainability plan.

Skills and Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in the programmatic industry: this could be at a media agency, publisher or ad tech platform.
• Excellent presentation and storytelling skills: the ability to take complex topics and make them simple and digestible is key.
• Creative and innovative mindset: the habit of thinking proactively about the ways a solution could improve to better meet the needs of its customers and anticipating future needs.
• An understanding of the core components of programmatic media and the businesses in market providing competing solutions.
• Experience working with clients, listening to challenges and educating on how your business/platform can provide solutions.

About us

Blis is the geo-powered advertising tech stack. We’ve built a radically different omnichannel advertising solution structured on geography, not identity. Audience Explorer is our powerful audience planning platform delivering actionable intelligence & insight to advertisers.

With Blis, advertisers can plan unified audiences with data from premium partners, connected by geo. Buy audiences using smart cookie-less technology that can double performance and halve costs. Measure the audience, not just the channel, with patent-pending omnichannel measurement technology.

Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most successful companies, as well as every major media agency.

As an equal opportunity employer, we treat all our employees and job applicants fairly and equally. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination and take all reasonable steps to create a work environment in which all employees are treated with respect and dignity. We don't condone or tolerate any form of harassment, by employees or by others who do business with us.

Our Values - B.L.I.S.
Brave

We're leaders not followers

An innovation and growth mindset helps us solve everyday challenges and achieve breakthroughs. Our passion drives us to innovate. We don’t see barriers, just possibilities.

We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable for outcomes, good and bad – and we don’t pass the buck.

Love our clients

We're client obsessed

We do what we say and build trusted relationships with our partners for the long term. We act with integrity. We put our clients at the center of our business. We obsess over the best insights, ideas and solutions to deliver WOW and work with honesty and accountability to get it done.

Inclusive

We're one team

We are empathetic and embrace diversity. Everyone has a voice and can bring their authentic self to work. We care about and support each other – with humility and good humor. Mutual respect and wellbeing are key. We strive to eliminate bias and be open and transparent.

Solutions driven

We're action oriented

Speed matters in business, so we're solution-driven and action-oriented. We value simplification and calculated risk taking. We are lean, agile and resourceful self-starters. We collaborate and break silos, working thoughtfully and with urgency to solve problems, while learning from mistakes and celebrating wins.

If this looks like the perfect fit for you or if you just want to have a conversation, please apply and we will get back to you as quickly as possible!