Principal Product Manager, LevelPlay

Overview

In this senior, individual-contributor role, you shape the LevelPlay mediation platform and steer the roadmap across auction dynamics, bidding, and publisher-facing tooling. You will partner with engineering, data science, design, and monetization teams to ship at scale while meeting strict latency and reliability demands. Your decisions influence developer revenue and Unity’s monetization strategy as you work with top publishers and ad networks. This role offers an opportunity to drive strategic bets, mentor PMs, and align Unity’s Grow and Create divisions toward a unified experience.

Pay / Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Parental leave and family-care programs

Responsibilities

• Define and advance the product vision and roadmap for LevelPlay core areas from inception to launch and iteration
• Make high-stakes platform decisions on auction mechanics, bidding vs. waterfall, network integrations, and revenue optimization
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, design, and monetization teams to ship at scale with strict latency/reliability
• Engage with top publishers and ad networks to capture needs and represent developer voice in strategic decisions
• Align stakeholders across Unity's Grow and Create divisions to deliver a cohesive experience
• Mentor and elevate PMs on the LevelPlay team to improve strategic decision-making

Key requirements

• Extensive product management experience at principal level or equivalent
• Deep domain expertise in ad tech (mediation, in-app bidding, programmatic auctions, ad networks)
• End-to-end product ownership from definition to launch, iteration, and scale
• Strong analytical rigor with experimentation and marketplace metrics influencing revenue
• Experience partnering with ML/data science teams to bring models/optimization features to production
• Exceptional stakeholder leadership, aligning executives, engineers, and external partners
• Track record of independent, conviction-driven decision-making
• Experience in mobile gaming or mobile developer ecosystems

• stakeholder leadership
• ability to work with ambiguity
• strong communication with executives and external partners
• ad mediation platforms
• auction theory or real-time bidding systems
• ML-driven optimization

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