Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nextdoor is hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Ads Delivery and Optimization. The role owns advertising auction, bidding, pacing, ranking, measurement, and ML-driven optimization systems to improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, delivery efficiency, and the neighbor experience.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Ads Delivery and Optimization across auctions, bidding, budget pacing, ranking, conversion optimization, and automation
- Partner with Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Science to define model objectives, design experiments, and drive deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Expand optimization across advertiser goals, formats, and surfaces, including clicks, leads, purchases, app installs, video, Search Ads, SMB products, and emerging inventory
- Build the measurement foundations that make optimization reliable, including attribution, event and label quality, calibration, reporting, and privacy-constrained signals
- Turn complex optimization capabilities into intuitive advertiser products, including auto-bidding and other automation that improves outcomes and simplifies campaign management
- Drive tradeoffs across advertiser performance, revenue, delivery efficiency, platform investment, and the neighbor experience. Align senior stakeholders on strategy, decisions, risks, and performance
Skills
- 12+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in advertising technology, marketplace optimization, or ML-driven ranking and delivery systems
- Deep expertise in ads delivery and optimization, including auctions, bidding, budget pacing, ranking, conversion optimization, attribution, or experimentation
- Strong technical fluency and experience partnering with Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Science on models, experimentation, calibration, serving systems, and platform architecture
- Strong product judgment and experience balancing advertiser outcomes, revenue, delivery, measurement quality, and user experience when data or signals are imperfect
- Experience translating complex ML, automation, and infrastructure capabilities into intuitive advertiser products that drive measurable value and adoption
- Demonstrated ability to set strategy, lead complex initiatives across teams, influence senior stakeholders without formal authority, and communicate technical concepts clearly
- Experience with performance advertising, auto-bidding, privacy-constrained attribution, mobile measurement, or ML-powered products at scale
Benefits
- A meaningful equity grant for this role, with quarterly vesting; your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
- A variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee-only plan option.
- A OneMedical membership for concierge care.
- A hybrid employment model, blending an in-office presence and work-from-home experience.
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