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# Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization at Nextdoor

- **Company:** Nextdoor
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://about.nextdoor.com/careers-list/?gh_jid=8259381

## Job description

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at [nextdoor.com](http://nextdoor.com/).

Meet Your Future Neighbors

The Monetization Team at Nextdoor empowers businesses of all sizes to connect meaningfully with their local communities. Our advertising platform helps marketers reach the right audiences, drive measurable outcomes, and scale their growth efficiently.

As a Principal Product Manager, Ads Delivery & Optimization, you will lead the strategy and roadmap for how campaigns turn advertiser goals into effective delivery and measurable outcomes. You will own bidding, pacing, ranking, outcome optimization, and the measurement foundations that make these systems reliable.

This is a highly technical and strategic role at the center of Nextdoor’s Ads ecosystem. You will partner with Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Revenue, Finance, and Product Marketing to evolve our auction, bidding, pacing, ranking, measurement, and ML-driven optimization systems. Your work will span platform capabilities and optimization products, directly impacting advertiser outcomes, revenue growth, delivery efficiency, and the neighbor experience.

At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs.

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. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.

The Impact You’ll Make

- 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.

## What You’ll Bring to the Team

- 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 is a plus.

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $200,000 - $335,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found [here](https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/Personnel-Privacy-Policy?language=en_US).

## About Nextdoor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, local businesses, and public agencies to build stronger local communities.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: KIND)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Nirav Tolia (CEO, President, Chairperson) — co-founders also include others such as Prakash Janakiraman and David Sze

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Social networking, local community platform
- Target customers: B2C (neighbors/residents), B2B (local businesses), B2G (public agencies, fire departments, news publishers)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To make every neighborhood feel like home."

## Products & Services
- **Nextdoor Platform (The New Nextdoor)**: Mobile app and website that offers:
  - **News**: Trusted local stories from vetted publishers (3,500+ partners in US, UK, Canada)
  - **Alerts**: Real-time safety, traffic, and weather alerts powered by Weather.com, Samdesk, and local public agencies
  - **Ask**: AI-powered recommendations distilled from years of neighborhood conversations
  - **For Sale & Free**: Hyperlocal marketplace for buying, selling, or giving away items
  - **Events and Groups**: Organize and discover local gatherings and interest-based groups
  - **Business Pages**: 5M+ claimed business pages where locals can engage with enterprises
  - **Public Agency Pages**: 6,000+ public agencies use the platform to share critical updates

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from search results (publicly traded, but specific market cap not cited)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $257.6M (as of latest available data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Weather.com, Samdesk, and thousands of local news publishers and public agencies. (Specific venture investors not listed in search results)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 110M+ verified neighbors across 345,000 neighborhoods globally
  - 1 in 3 U.S. households rely on Nextdoor
  - Present in 11 countries
  - Launched "The New Nextdoor" in July 2025, introducing AI-powered Ask feature
  - Employee headcount: 555 (+0.9% YoY, +9 employees)
  - Active job postings: 18 (but decreasing trend -35.7% monthly)

## Competitive Advantages
- Hyperlocal, verified network: users must submit real names and addresses, building inherent trust
- Large existing user base and network effects across neighborhoods
- Deep integration with local public agencies, fire departments, and news publishers
- AI-powered "Ask" feature leverages years of community data to provide unique local insights
- Diverse revenue streams: advertising, business pages, and marketplace

## Strategic Focus
- Monetization through advertising (multiple machine learning roles in Ads, Product Manager for Ads Optimization)
- Expanding AI capabilities in feed and notifications (Senior ML Engineer - Notifications/Feed)
- Growing marketplace and local commerce (For Sale & Free)
- Strengthening partnerships with public agencies and local news
- Increasing engagement through events, groups, and the new feature suite

## Why Work Here
- Culture & Values: "Act Like An Owner", "Build For Community", "Raise The Bar"
- Extensive benefits: health care (including LGBTQ+ affirming care), flexible vacation, 401k match, ESPP, 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health & wellness stipend, caregiving support
- Perks: Meals and snacks in office, volunteer programs, career development resources
- Employee Resource Groups: 10 active ERGs including MIND (mental health), Rainbowhood (LGBTQ+), B@ND (Black employees), WIN (women & gender minorities), Halal, and more
- Work environment: Hybrid/remote flexibility implied (Slack usage, office perks), small-ish team (~555 employees) with engineering roles open (iOS, backend, ML, data science)
- Opportunity to work on a product that impacts 110M neighbors and fosters real-world community connections

## Sources
1. [about.nextdoor.com/careers](https://about.nextdoor.com/careers/)
2. [about.nextdoor.com](https://about.nextdoor.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com)
4. [about.nextdoor.com/team](https://about.nextdoor.com/team/)
5. [wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextdoor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextdoor)

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