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Principal Product Manager, Ads Quality
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Set product strategy for the quality of sponsored product ads in a large retail marketplace. The role focuses on making ad placements more relevant to shoppers while delivering value to advertisers, using experimentation, machine learning, and ranking improvements to guide growth across customer-facing experiences.
Responsibilities - Define controls and product choices that balance shopper experience with advertiser outcomes. - Lead rapid experiments in ad merchandising, ranking, and relevance, targeting meaningful business impact. - Develop strategy for ranking and monetization systems that better reflect customer intent for each ad request. - Partner with machine learning engineers on complex ranking and relevance design and improvements to retrieval systems. - Shape how sponsored products appear in emerging conversational and agent-assisted shopping experiences. - Align engineering, design, data science, and research around hypotheses, requirements, and measurable results; communicate product direction to senior stakeholders and partners.
Requirements - Experience with paid search or sponsored product advertising. - Experience building machine learning products, particularly ranking, relevance, or recommendation systems. - Background in consumer-facing digital products at a large, complex technology organization. - Strong analytical skills and experience using data to make product decisions and design experiments. - Ability to explain complex topics to senior leaders and build alignment across organizations. - Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.
Nice to have - Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, economics, or a related field. - 7–10 years of product management experience, including ownership of product lines generating over $100 million in revenue. - Fluency in data science and machine learning concepts.
Benefits and work setup - Remote role with flexible choice of work location and periodic in-person events. - Eligible for equity grants and location-based compensation. Listed U.S. base pay ranges from $209,000 to $264,000 depending on location.