We are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to join our 200+ product development organization and lead our ML Foundations team. This team focuses on solving complex machine learning problems and developing proprietary models for a range of AdTech use cases across our product suite.

As part of the AI Platform organization, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers working to accelerate AI adoption and development across Smartly’s Media, Creative, and Intelligence suite. The team ensures compliance with privacy, security, and ethical guidelines.

This is an opportunity to define the vision and strategy for ML and Data Science applications, drive execution on ambitious goals, and champion AI and ML excellence throughout Smartly.

Smartly is proud to be ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Creative AdTech. This recognition reflects our commitment to transforming ad experiences through intelligent creativity, standing as the only platform honored by both Forrester and validated by PwC to be recognized for ad technology to power performance.

To get an idea of some of the work we do, see for example these blog posts:

How We Productized Bayesian Revenue Estimation with Stan

Optimizing Conversions with Predictive Budget Allocation

Here’s What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow the AI Foundations team, providing technical direction, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
• Drive the development of AdTech-specific ML models and foundational AI capabilities and explore novel approaches that can be applied across Smartly’s products. Optimize existing models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards in ML applications.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members through coaching, 1:1s, and career development plans.
• Remove obstacles to enable your team to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
• Partner with recruiting to help scale the team by actively sourcing and closing the best talent. 
• Partner with other leaders in the AI Platform to shape Smartly’s long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Here's What We're Looking For…

• 7+ years of experience in building services and products.
• 5+ years of experience in applying machine learning to real-life problems.
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Competent with key technologies in ML; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, SQL.  
• Able to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Proven experience in delivering scalable ML systems in production.  You will need to be hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• A pragmatic mindset. We always aim to create value to our customers. We're also working on production systems and our customers' business depends on it.
• Curiosity and the drive to continuously learn through study and experimentation on the job.  
• Ability to drive both technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements when working with personal data.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English and ability to work 3 days/week onsite at our Helsinki office

What we offer you…

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Google.
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Chief Technical Officer.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. 

At Aiven, we are building the best platform to build production applications and AI agents. Our ambitious vision requires a Product Manager to help shape how developers and builders create, deploy and run production apps and agents. 

Aiven believes that the apps and agents that matter rely on data, need to scale and are built on open source technologies. This is the foundation of our Apps platform. As the Product Manager leading this initiative you will drive the roadmap for taking this application to hundreds of thousands of developers globally. Aiven's global data platform is the foundation to build this platform through a methodical product - sales and agent lead growth strategy.

You will work closely with a growth team of engineers, designers and other specialists bringing this vision to reality. You will be hands-on with customers and internal stakeholders to drive delivery and iteration speed.

The Role:

Our team is looking for a customer-focused product manager who will help us take Aiven’s app platform to the next level and power the new generation of builders to achieve their goals with code and data.

Your primary mission is to empower developers and builders — making it effortless for them to prototype, build, and launch apps on top of Aiven. You’ll focus on converting them into paying customers by making it seamless to consume Aiven services as their app backend and build, integrate, and scale modern applications with ease. Over time, you’ll extend this capability to businesses, enabling their product teams to accelerate development and bring new products to market faster.

What You'll Do:

• Co-own with the Head of the DevEx department the product strategy and roadmap for Aiven App Platform, enabling developers to create powerful, scalable apps with minimal friction.
• Deeply understand the developer ecosystem — from frameworks and tools to workflows and channels — and use these insights to shape the product.
• Find and drive new ways for developers to integrate and consume Aiven services, whether via SDKs, APIs, CLI, MCPs, AI and ecosystem integrations.
• Partner and align with colleagues across the Product, Solution Architecture, and Customer Success teams to better understand customer needs and enable their product teams to build faster.
• Drive product prioritization and roadmap planning, balancing developer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility to deliver maximum value.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales to craft product positioning, messaging, and GTM strategies that resonate with technical audiences  
• Serve as the business advocate by interpreting market trends, gathering customer feedback, identifying growth opportunities, and generating ideas - while effectively communicating insights back to the team and stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years as a product manager/product owner experience building technology-powered B2B products in the applications and AI space.
• A builder, empowered by AI. Showcasing strong mindset of building artifacts and PoCs, to drive the vision with tools and examples
• Experience shipping products for technical audiences, with a strong grasp of APIs, SDKs, integrations, MCPs, skills.md and the AI ecosystem around Apps.
• Hands-on experience with modern product discovery techniques to deeply understand real user problems while validating the best possible solutions
• Excellent communication skills, especially when speaking to developers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

Nice-to-have

• Familiarity with infrastructure scaling, resiliency, and security is a plus, especially in cloud environment
• Previous experience in a platform product, engineering, or solutions architect role would be advantageous and relevant.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

How to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:

There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person.  Our interviews will never occur via text or chat. If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

Equal Opportunities:

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

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About the Role:

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help define and build shared, API-first product platforms at AlphaSense that power multiple product surfaces, integrations, and agentic workflows.

In this role, you’ll focus on building platforms as products: well-designed APIs, clear contracts, strong reliability guarantees, and a roadmap driven by real product needs. These platforms are consumed by internal product teams, external integrations, including AI agents.

This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering and cross-product technical leadership. You’ll stay close to the code while shaping how product platforms are designed, evolved, and adopted across the company. You’ll also work across multiple teams and domains, helping to align long-term technical direction while still owning end-to-end systems. This is not a people-management role, nor is it a purely advisory architecture role. We’re explicitly looking for a Principal who enjoys building, prototyping, iterating, and solving complex problems in production.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a technical owner and force multiplier for API-first architecture across the company
• Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents
• Lead the development of agentic workflows, including orchestration, state management, tooling, and integration patterns
• Drive API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews
• Tackle complex cross-team problems where requirements are ambiguous, and constraints are real
• Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to ensure APIs are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable
• Identify and reduce systemic technical risks while enabling teams to move faster
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through example, not hierarchy

Who you are:

• Extensive experience as a senior staff/principal-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems
• Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating APIs at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs
• Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production)
• Deep understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and evolution over time
• Strong bias toward hands-on contribution and ownership of real systems
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams through credibility and execution

Nice to have: 

• Experience building or enabling agentic or AI-driven workflows
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar agent integration patterns
• Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems environments
• Exposure to API governance, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility at scale
• Experience working closely with the platform and SRE teams

What we offer:

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form.

There are two things that you might have heard about: that Aiven is a data platform, and how AI is taking over the world. Well, Aiven is actually building the infrastructure that makes building agents or AI applications for production use cases not only possible but, most importantly, simple. We aren't just a passenger in this new world—we are building the engine.

From our humble beginnings in Finland back in 2015, we’ve now grown to over 400 people across 17 countries, achieving Centaur status in 2025. But we’re not done yet. We are architecting a "Super Centaur" future, and that requires a new kind of internal operating system.

The Role

Are you a systems architect who happens to work in People Ops? Do you get excited by the prospect of paying down operational debt and building automated infrastructure that scales across 17+ countries? If building the internal engine for a company pioneering the AI-data era sounds like your jam, then read on.

Your Mission: Architecting the Aiven 2.0 Operating System

At Aiven, we view our people (the Crab Cast) as our primary product. As our Manager of People Operations, you are the Lead Architect of the internal systems that power this product. Your goal isn't just to keep the lights on—it’s to build a world-class employee experience that scales through technology rather than headcount.

You will lead a global team of 5–7 specialists across the US, APAC, and EMEA, sitting at the intersection of Business Velocity, Regulatory Precision, and AI-Driven Efficiency.

In concrete terms, this means you’ll:

• Engineer Efficiency: Lead the transition from manual Jira and HiBob tasks to seamless, automated internal systems. Your mandate is simple: if a process can be handled by an agent, it should not be performed manually.
• Own the Workforce Lifecycle: Act as the custodian of the Aiven Insider journey. From high-stakes onboarding to frictionless offboarding, you own and translate company policies into scalable processes.
• Master Data &  Compliance: Own the Source of Truth for all workforce data. You’ll ensure our systems, processes, and policies are Audit-Ready (GDPR, SOC2) and provide the radical clarity our Executive team and Board need to make data-informed decisions.
• Bridge the Operational Interface: While separate teams own the strategy for Payroll and Global Rewards, you own the operational delivery. You ensure the data flowing into these functions is 100% accurate and compliant globally.
• Drive Systems Architecture: Oversee our People tech stack (HiBob, etc.). You aren't just a user; you are a product owner, ensuring clean handoffs between People, Finance, IT, and Security.
• Own the Vendor Relationships: You will own the strategic and operational relationship with our global HR technology and compliance ecosystem. This includes managing specialist vendors for occupational health, workers’ compensation ensuring regulatory precision.
• Lead and Enable the Team: Manage a global team of specialists, fostering a high-performance environment while ensuring they are equipped with the skills and mentorship needed to architect Aiven's internal operating system.

What We’re Looking For

• You’re a Systems Thinker: You don't patch holes; you redesign the system so the friction never returns. 
• AI Fluency: You’ve built People Ops functions that leverage AI as a competitive advantage. You are already using AI to speed up your own productivity.
• Global Navigator: You’ve walked the walk in high-growth, product-driven environments and understand the complexities of international employment law.
• A First Team Leader: You move at speed. You value radical candor, programmatic execution, and the mindset of high agency.
• Strategic Influence: You communicate with clarity, lead with data, and maintain a relentless focus on business impact. You have the courage to challenge the status quo when it creates friction for our builders.

The Setup

This role is based at our HQ in Helsinki. We believe in the power of First Team collaboration, spending 3 days a week together in the office to co-create and build the future of Aiven.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

How to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:

There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person.  Our interviews will never occur via text or chat. If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

Equal Opportunities:

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

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There are two things that you might have heard about: that Aiven is a data platform, and how AI is taking over the world. Well, Aiven is actually building the infrastructure that makes building agents or AI applications for production use cases not only possible but most importantly simple. So not just a data platform, and not just a passenger in this new world. Anything but.  

From our humble beginnings in Finland back in 2015, we’ve now grown to over 400 people across 17 countries, and we achieved Centaur status in 2025 when we hit $100m ARR.  But we’re not done yet. If anything, this is still the beginning. And this is where you come in.  

The Role 

Are you a seasoned Talent Acquisition Leader with the ambition to solve problems on a global scale? Does building the talent engine for a company that’s pioneering  data infrastructure for the AI era sound like your jam? If so, then read on.  

Your Mission 

Build a talent engine to power Aiven’s next stage of growth.  To do this begins with the right philosophical approach: you should view Talent Acquisition as a proactive commercial function, and put your focus on driving simple and effective solutions.    

When it comes to hiring, you’ll specialize in building teams of engineers and technical experts focused on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and the open-source ecosystem. Along with that are the GTM and Central teams that help commercialise Aiven’s operations.  

On top of this, you’ll own the roadmap for talent marketing and employer brand, talent operations, talent analytics and tooling. The expectation is that you’re optimising for efficiency, and leveraging AI and automation to allow the team more time for the value-adding human tasks.  

Your day-to-day will be switching context from the small to the big problems: unblocking the bottleneck here and there, delving in and out of data dashboards, while supporting leaders on making the right talent decisions for their team.

To put it bluntly, the talent you and your team bring in will directly shape the stability, innovation, and roadmap of Aiven’s platform and growth. 

In concrete terms, this means you’ll: 

• Lead and scale a TA function that drives efficiency and quality in all that it does.
• Think beyond just recruitment and more about best practice marketing, AI and automation and enablement.   
• Work with business leaders to build a roadmap that ensures Aiven gets the talent it needs on time.   
• Coach, train and educate to ensure Aiven is raising the talent bar with every hire.
• Partner with the rest of the People team on full talent lifecycle initiatives to better improve the experience for all our candidates and employees. 

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve walked the walk: You’ve got proven experience in scaling global talent functions in high-growth, product-driven environments.
• You’re a true owner: You don't wait for instructions, but just get it done: define the roadmap, own the KPIs, and you get things done. You have strong judgment and the courage to challenge senior leaders when the talent bar is at risk.
• AI fluency: You’ve built TA functions that leverage AI and automation as a competitive advantage. 
• Programmatic execution: You design processes that are clean, scalable, and obsessively efficient. You apply the same standards of "quality and velocity" to hiring that we apply to our Kafka architecture.
• Strategic influence: You align competing stakeholders around company priorities. You communicate with clarity, lead with data, and maintain a relentless focus on business impact.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

How to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:

There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person.  Our interviews will never occur via text or chat. If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

Equal Opportunities:

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

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Are you passionate about leading innovative product development in the dynamic world of digital advertising and creative? Join our esteemed Product Management team as a Senior Product Manager and drive the evolution of our Rendering Platform for creative digital advertisement!

About the Team:

At Smartly, we empower our clients with cutting-edge solutions for digital advertising across various social media channels. As part of our Creative Product team, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how businesses strategize, execute, scale, and optimize their advertising efforts around Creative through our Smartly Advertising Platform. Your contributions will directly impact our client's ability to save time and maximize returns on their advertising investments by providing a seamless cross-channel experience with excellent Creative at scale.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will spearhead the development of our creative-centric tooling within our platform. Your role involves shaping the vision and execution of Smartly Creative’s Rendering platform ensuring we have solid and winning roadmap for these topics for 2026 and beyond; In this role, you will collaborate with the Creative PM team aligning with the owners of the tools such as Producer, Editor and External templates and the fully integrated DSPs we have. In addition, liaising with the broader PM team owning the social platforms supported by Smartly Media.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:

• Gain deep customer insights to define product priorities and problems to solve
• Lead product discovery activities, including user research and prototype testing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft product vision and roadmap
• Own the product roadmap+backlog and prioritize feature development
• Develop go-to-market strategies to drive product adoption and demand
• Conduct client workshops and presentations to showcase product capabilities
• Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment of strategy and execution

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in B2B SaaS
• Working experience on the creative format space, understanding the differences between HTML5, Image and Video formats, including CTV formats.
• Proven track record of leading high-impact projects and driving user or revenue growth
• Strong leadership skills with experience in cross-functional collaboration
• Expertise in launching successful software products and features
• Background in technologically complex domains, such as digital advertising
• Proficiency in data analysis and handling large datasets
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in related fields
• Ability to work from the Berlin or Helsinki office at least 3 days per week
• Excellent English and willingness plus ability to travel internationally to meet internal teams and partners

What we offer you:

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Google, Amazon, TheTradeDesk and Yahoo as Smartly partners
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our CPO.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

Are you passionate about leading innovative product development in the dynamic world of digital advertising and creative? Join our esteemed Product Management team as a Senior Product Manager and drive the evolution of our Rendering Platform for creative digital advertisement!

About the Team:

At Smartly, we empower our clients with cutting-edge solutions for digital advertising across various social media channels. As part of our Creative Product team, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how businesses strategize, execute, scale, and optimize their advertising efforts around Creative through our Smartly Advertising Platform. Your contributions will directly impact our client's ability to save time and maximize returns on their advertising investments by providing a seamless cross-channel experience with excellent Creative at scale.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will spearhead the development of our creative-centric tooling within our platform. Your role involves shaping the vision and execution of Smartly Creative’s Rendering platform ensuring we have solid and winning roadmap for these topics for 2026 and beyond; In this role, you will collaborate with the Creative PM team aligning with the owners of the tools such as Producer, Editor and External templates and the fully integrated DSPs we have. In addition, liaising with the broader PM team owning the social platforms supported by Smartly Media.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:

• Gain deep customer insights to define product priorities and problems to solve
• Lead product discovery activities, including user research and prototype testing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft product vision and roadmap
• Own the product roadmap+backlog and prioritize feature development
• Develop go-to-market strategies to drive product adoption and demand
• Conduct client workshops and presentations to showcase product capabilities
• Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment of strategy and execution

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in B2B SaaS
• Working experience on the creative format space, understanding the differences between HTML5, Image and Video formats, including CTV formats.
• Proven track record of leading high-impact projects and driving user or revenue growth
• Strong leadership skills with experience in cross-functional collaboration
• Expertise in launching successful software products and features
• Background in technologically complex domains, such as digital advertising
• Proficiency in data analysis and handling large datasets
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in related fields
• Ability to work from the Berlin or Helsinki office at least 3 days per week
• Excellent English and willingness plus ability to travel internationally to meet internal teams and partners

What we offer you:

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Google, Amazon, TheTradeDesk and Yahoo as Smartly partners
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our CPO.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!