Senior Product Manager - Upstream

The role

This technical product role involves owning backend and API-facing features across the bid stream auction. You will develop exclusion and scoring logic, write requirements, and work with streaming publishers on integrations.

What you will do

• Own backend and API-side product work in the optimization layer including waterfall, prebid/auction, exclusion logic and the scoring model
• Write PRDs and tickets to improve features
• Create and manage Jira Epics, Confluence documents, and JPD Ideas
• Participate in Product side of Agile activities
• Run product discovery with internal and external customers
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Run publisher and partner integrations (VAST, RTB)
• Monitor live campaigns, delivery and performance reports daily
• Support the programmatic team on inbound requests
• Partner with data science on the scoring model

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience
• Technical depth in ad tech infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with VAST and/or RTB integrations
• Strong data reasoning
• Ability to write PRDs that engineers can build from
• Fluent product discovery fundamentals
• Fluency in Ukrainian and English
• Based in Ukraine or Europe

Nice to have

• Experience working alongside data science teams on modeling or algorithmic products
• Experience in a technical support or solutions role with external customers or partners
• Strong written and verbal communication in English with US-based publishers and internal teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary including equity package
• Quarterly tax assistance (only for Ukraine tax residents)
• Competitive time off plus company wellness days throughout the year
• Team building events
• Annual continued education benefit
• Newbie Productivity Perk
• Monthly stipend

About the company

Tatari helps brands reach customers using linear and streaming TV ads through a platform that combines media buying with proprietary analytics. The company was founded in 2016 to transform TV advertising using AI and machine learning.