[Remote] Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization

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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