Senior Technical Product Manager Advertising ML
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing tools and services to launch, monetize, and scale games. Its offerings include payments, web shops, publishing, distribution, LiveOps, anti-fraud, subscriptions, SDKs, and creator solutions for developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and other gaming businesses.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla operates as a global merchant of record and video game commerce platform serving developers, publishers, resellers, payment providers, creators, and retailers. It provides payment processing across more than 200 countries and regions, 1,000+ payment methods, and 130+ currencies, alongside tax management, compliance, fraud prevention, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support. Its product portfolio includes Web Shop, Publishing Suite, Payments, Xsolla Pay, Mobile Buy Button, SDKs, Subscriptions, game distribution, Partner Network, Offerwall, LiveOps, Anti-Fraud, Login, Site Builder, cloud gaming, and related gaming commerce tools.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the recommendation engine as a product, including ranking quality, relevance, objectives, constraints, guardrails, and the model roadmap. You will define metrics, design controlled experiments, evaluate model performance, communicate readouts, and contribute ranking expertise to advertising decisions involving pricing, identity, and telemetry.
Requirements
- 6+ years of product management experience
- 3+ years owning a production recommendation ranking personalization or relevance system
- Deep understanding of experiment design and statistical inference
- Knowledge of classification regression probability calibration and expected-value objectives
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake BigQuery Spark Airflow dbt MLFlow Vertex AI and feature stores
- Experience moving model changes into production through controlled experiments
- Knowledge of performance advertising economics and ad technology ecosystems
- Ability to write SQL and read application code
- Excellent written communication and stakeholder management
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering Statistics Economics or a related field
- Offerwall rewarded advertising loyalty rewards or mobile app monetization experience is a plus
- Two-stage ranking system experience is a plus
- Pricing yield management or marketplace experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Own the recommendation engine product roadmap
- Define ranking objectives constraints guardrails and kill conditions
- Own metric definitions and resolve measurement questions
- Design experiments with data science partners
- Evaluate model performance and communicate stakeholder readouts
- Contribute ranking expertise to the advertising roadmap
