Lead Monetization Manager
Job Description & Overview
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 80 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:
Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
Ads are already live in the Freecash app via AppLovin MAX; now we want a hands-on lead to aggressively grow ad revenue across interstitial, rewarded, and custom ad units while maintaining a sharp focus on user experience. This is a senior, high-impact individual-contributor role.
What You’ll Own 🎯In-App Optimization & Placement: Improve ad placements, formats, dynamic triggers, and audience segmentation within the Freecash app to maximize revenue potential.
Custom Ad Formats: Innovate, develop, and test high-performing custom ad formats built specifically for our audience and app architecture.
Direct Exchange & Network Partnerships: Work directly with ad exchanges, demand partners, and networks to drive custom deals, direct integrations, and premium monetization opportunities.
Bidding & Mediation Strategy: Collaborate closely with the bidding team and optimize MAX mediation, unified bidding, waterfall setups, and floor price strategies.
Experimentation & Execution: Run frequent, data-driven tests to continuously lift CPMs, ARPU, and overall ad revenue.
Product & UX Balance: Work closely with product leadership and Marco to balance top-line revenue gains against retention and long-term user experience trade-offs.
Proven Ownership: Track record of driving in-app ad monetization in gaming, rewarded apps, or high-volume consumer apps.
Deep Ad Tech Mastery: Hands-on experience with rewarded ads, interstitials, programmatic mediation platforms (e.g., AppLovin MAX), bidding environments, and working directly with ad exchanges.
Bidding & Growth Alignment: Experience working alongside bidding/user acquisition teams to align supply-side optimization with demand-side unit economics.
Custom Format Innovation: Ability to conceptualize and execute bespoke or hybrid ad formats in partnership with product and engineering teams.
Commercial Drive: Demonstrated success turning experimental concepts and commercial partnerships into measurable, scalable revenue growth.
Bonus: Experience extending monetization strategies to new products or emerging platforms (e.g., Link).
Own Everything: You build the plan, pull the levers, and execute seamlessly without relying on a team beneath you.
Raise the Bar: You question the data,