Product Manager - MLOps Platform (AdTech Focus)

Job Title: Product Manager - MLOps Platform (AdTech Focus)
Location: Remote (UK BASED)
Salary/Rate: £550 Inside IR35
Start Date: 18/08/25 - 31/12/25
Job Type: Contract

MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS

About the Client:
Our client is a global leader in the digital advertising space, driving innovation across programmatic media, data platforms, and real-time analytics. They are embarking on a strategic initiative to build a greenfield MLOps platform to power advanced machine learning use cases across their AdTech ecosystem. This is a fully remote role, inside IR35, offering the chance to own and shape foundational ML infrastructure at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and own the product vision and roadmap for a brand-new MLOps platform, built from the ground up to support scalable, secure, and efficient ML model development, deployment, and monitoring.
Work closely with data science, engineering, analytics, and AdOps teams to understand current workflows and identify opportunities to streamline and automate the ML lifecycle.
Assess existing data, analytics, and infrastructure frameworks to identify reusable components and define the architectural blueprint for the MLOps platform.
Collaborate with backend and platform engineering teams to identify technical gaps, scope backend development efforts, and deliver core platform capabilities such as:
Model training orchestration.
CI/CD for ML (e.g., using MLflow, Kubeflow, or Vertex AI Pipelines).
Model versioning, monitoring, and governance.
Enable high-impact AdTech use cases including:
Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM).
Real-time personalisation and bidding.
Audience segmentation and targeting.
Predictive analytics for campaign performance.
Ensure seamless integration with Order Management Systems (OMS), Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), Data Warehouses (e.g., BigQuery), and custom BI tools to support real-time and batch model consumption.
Translate business needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, and technical specifications, and manage delivery using agile methodologies.
Drive platform adoption by evangelising best practices in ML operations, model governance, and responsible AI.
Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years in AdTech, MarTech, or digital media platforms.
Proven experience building ML platforms or infrastructure from scratch, ideally in a cloud-native environment.
Strong understanding of programmatic advertising, attribution modelling, campaign measurement, and media mix optimisation.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (especially GCP) and tools like BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Airflow, and dbt.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams around a shared vision.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer:
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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