Graduate Product Manager

Graduate Product Manager

native Graduate Scheme: Build Something That Matters

Location: London UK (Hybrid 3-4 days in the office per week)

Salary: 30784

Contract: Full-time

native has been building for 10 years. Were still very much a startup: fast-moving ambitious and building with intent. Were creating the infrastructure that connects students Students Unions universities and advertisers through a joined-up marketplace.

Our goal is to increase student engagement while enabling Students Unions to secure sustainable funding. For advertisers we offer meaningful measurable routes to student audiences. The more aligned these incentives are the more defensible and scalable our business becomes.

Were looking for recent graduates or those with equivalent experience who want to step straight into meaningful work learn quickly and grow fast.

What were looking for:

This role requires clarity of thought structured thinking and good judgement under pressure. Youll need to create order where none exists make decisions in ambiguity and move between speed and precision depending on what the moment demands.

The sharpest thinkers are often the ones whove had to work hardest to be taken seriously. The people who see patterns others miss are often the ones whove never quite fit the standard template. The candidates with the best judgement are frequently the ones whove been underestimated or whove had to prove the same capability twice as many times as their peers.

If that describes your path - if youve had to explain yourself more than others or if youve done hard things that dont look impressive on paper - this role might be for you.

Were looking for people who:

• Rebuild problems from scratch rather than inherit solutions

• Know when to move fast and when precision matters

• Make decisions in ambiguity without needing permission

• Do work properly because it matters to them not because someones measuring

• Have done hard things that required more than just being clever on paper

We look for intellectual sharpness and structured thinking. Strong academic records from disciplines like maths engineering philosophy languages or history tell us something. So does recognising yourself in what weve described above.

What youll be working on:

Youll be part of our Ad Products team the group that defines how our Ad Products work how they scale and how theyre used across our managed marketplace. This team sets the standards that shape sales delivery inventory and reporting across the business.

As one of the Ad Product Managers youll own specific products within the portfolio. Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining the conditions required for your products to run reliably using a structured blueprint approach to assess campus readiness

• Assessing Students Unions against those conditions to establish product availability and identify whats needed to unlock additional supply

• Maintaining documentation that captures how your products are sold what they deliver for advertisers and what campus conditions enable consistent delivery

• Driving improvements to your product specifications based on evidence from sales performance delivery feedback operational constraints and advertiser outcomes

• Collaborating with Sales Campaign Planning Delivery Creative Production Inventory Management and Data to ensure your products are commercially viable operationally realistic and reportable at scale

• Contributing to quarterly team roadmaps that prioritise improvements to inventory quantity engagement quality delivery reliability or sales clarity across the portfolio

• Working with the wider team to translate UK product standards for deployment in new markets as the business expands internationally

Your work directly influences how Native sells prices delivers and reports campaigns for the products you own. The systems you shape underpin the Campaign Deployment Engine standardised campus supply and the growth of our Ad Products portfolio across both UK and US markets.

Progression:

This is a six-month engagement. If you perform well the expectation is that youll move into a promoted permanent role at the end of that period. We treat this as a proving ground for long-term hires not an internship.

During your interview process youll be encouraged to reach out to people at the company whove walked this path before you.

Location and ways of working:

Youll be based in our London office working in person at least four days a week with one optional day remote. We believe in high-bandwidth collaboration and fast decision-making so most of the work happens face-to-face.

How to apply:

We dont need a cover letter. Instead tell us about how you think. That might be:

• A trade-off youve had to make and how you decided

• A problem you tackled without much guidance

• A system or process youd redesign and how youd go about it

• A time you had to choose what not to do and why

Also please do include a recent CV or a link to your LinkedIn profile / equivalent.

And If youre reading this and thinking I really want to do this but I probably wont get picked - please apply anyway. We care far more about how you think and how you show up than whether you tick every imagined box. Dont rule yourself out.

Were hiring on a rolling basis. If this sounds like the kind of challenge youre ready for get in touch.

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