Principal Product Manager

Connexity, a Taboola company, (in addition to its family of brands, Skimlinks and ShopYourLikes) is a performance-marketing technology company that drives new customers and sales to retailers and generates premium earnings for publishers. Each year we deliver over $4 billion in sales to retailers and pay out industry-leading rates to publishers and influencers. With 30+ years of proven success in the US, UK, EMEA, and APAC, Connexity is a long-time ecommerce pioneer.

Skimlinks helps Editorial Publishers, Shopping Platforms and Creators monetise every step of the shopper journey. We turn their content and shopping experiences into affiliate revenue, automatically and across the globe.

Role overview

Connexity is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the development and strategic direction of our pricing architecture. This is a director-level individual contributor role focused on revenue critical backend pricing infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for the evolution and modernisation of manually configured tools for valuing publisher traffic with a focus on automation and introduction of ML and AI technologies.

This role owns the economic logic of the Connexity marketplace. It requires a candidate who can translate high-level business objectives into scalable technical specifications that drive measurable net revenue growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Automation & Machine Learning: Allocate approximately 40%-50% of resources to integrating ML/AI models into the pricing logic. The objective is to increase pricing accuracy and eliminate the need for manual overrides and legacy configurations.
• Architectural Strategy: Evaluate the current pricing framework and design the next-generation services required to support emerging campaign types, including Sponsorships and hybrid performance models.
• Platform Ownership: Act as the primary owner for the pricing roadmap. Collaborate with Engineering and our analyst to define the most impactful requirements for data ingestion, enrichment, and storage layers. We do not want to ship just for the sake of it, we want to ship the right features with the biggest impact.
• Operational Stability: Maintain the integrity of the existing pricing stack to ensure revenue stability while simultaneously architecting the transition to new systems.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the technical authority on pricing for the product and commercial leadership teams, providing data-backed evidence for strategic shifts and marketplace adjustments.

Requirements:
• Seniority: Minimum of 8 years in Product Management, with a significant background in backend platform infrastructure and marketplace economics.
• Technical Proficiency: Extensive experience working alongside Data Science/Analytics teams to deploy production-grade ML models. Familiarity with modern data stacks (e.g., BigQuery) is required.
• Commercial Logic: A deep understanding of how pricing algorithms influence merchant ROAS, publisher yield, and overall marketplace health.
• Independent Execution: Proven ability to manage a complex roadmap and drive cross-functional alignment without the need for a dedicated team of junior product managers.
• Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to resolve complex data dependencies and conflicting business requirements through rigorous analysis.

Benefits:
Voted “Best Places to Work,” our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Santa Monica, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, EMEA and APAC. We offer top benefits including flexible time off, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more

• A family-friendly environment
• Flexible working hours and hybrid model for a good work-life balance
• Modern offices (not open plan) with an ergonomic workplace
• Pleasant feel-good extras for everyday life
• Participation in the form of shares.
• More about us and our benefits on Kununu

We are committed to providing a culture at Connexity that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we’re all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.