Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization

Job overview

The Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization role follows a hybrid employment model, with office locations listed in San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, New York, NY, and London, UK. The stated annual salary range is $200,000–$335,000, potentially higher depending on proficiency and subject to geographic location. The role supports Nextdoor’s Monetization Team, which helps businesses connect with local communities through advertising. The product manager leads strategy, roadmap, and execution for ad delivery and optimization systems, including auctions, bidding, pacing, ranking, measurement, and automation. The work aligns engineering, machine learning, data science, and business partners to improve advertiser outcomes and delivery efficiency while balancing revenue and the neighbor experience.

What you'll do

• Own strategy, roadmap, and execution for ads delivery and optimization
• partner with Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Science on model objectives, experiments, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• expand optimization across advertiser goals and formats
• build measurement foundations including attribution and reporting
• develop intuitive advertiser products such as auto-bidding
• align stakeholders on strategy, tradeoffs, risks, and performance.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal product manager

ads delivery & optimization

nextdoor

hybrid

san francisco ca

los angeles ca

chicago il

dallas tx

new york ny

london uk

advertising technology

bidding and pacing

machine learning

$200,000–$335,000/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity grant
• health plan options including a 100% covered employee-only plan option
• OneMedical membership.

Why this role

Requires 12+ years of product management experience, including significant advertising technology, marketplace optimization, or machine-learning-driven ranking and delivery experience. Performance advertising, auto-bidding, privacy-constrained attribution, mobile measurement, or scaled ML product experience is a plus.

About the employer

Nextdoor is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.