Principal Product Manager, Ads Quality
Core
Own the strategy for Ads Quality across Sponsored Products, balancing customer and advertiser value through merchandising, ranking, and personalization.
Role type
Principal Product Manager (Ads Quality)
Builds
Sponsored Products franchise, ranking and relevance systems, and new experiences like agentic commerce.
Domain
Retail media, online grocery, search advertising
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
paid search/Sponsored Products experience, machine learning product building (ranking/relevance), consumer-facing digital product experience, analytical skills, data science savvy, critical thinking, executive presence
Preferred skills
BS/MS in CS/economics, 7-10 years PM experience with $100M+ revenue lines, fluency in data science/ML concepts
Technologies
ranking systems, relevance systems, retrieval systems, conversational UI
Responsibilities
Create surface-level controls balancing customer and advertiser value; drive high-velocity experimentation in merchandising and ranking; develop strategy for ranking and monetization systems; lead system design for complex ranking systems with ML engineers; establish thought leadership on search monetization; define evolution of Sponsored Products in new experiences; partner with engineering/design/data science to turn ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses.
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
