Job brief: Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization

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• Listed on Nextdoor's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $200,000 to $335,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · US Remote · US CA San Francisco - HQ
• Posted: 2026-10-06

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• 12+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in advertising technology, marketplace optimization, or ML-driven ranking and delivery systems.

Conditions

• We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees.

Main duties

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Ads Delivery and Optimization across auctions, bidding, budget pacing, ranking, conversion optimization, and aut…
• Partner with Engineering, Machine Learning, and Data Science to define model objectives, design experiments, and drive deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build the measurement foundations that make optimization reliable, including attribution, event and label quality, calibration, reporting, and privacy-constr…
• Drive tradeoffs across advertiser performance, revenue, delivery efficiency, platform investment, and the neighbor experience.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for manager jobs across the U.S.: $160k a year (2,910 listings, 244 employers). This listing is 67% higher.
• Across Nextdoor's 21 open listings, 43% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Nextdoor hires

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