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The Principal Product Manager, Search Ads- Retail Lead joins the AI Monetization Product Team within the AI Experiences organization. This role involves defining product strategy, vision, and roadmaps for advertising and monetization investments. Depending on the specific focus area, the individual will either build foundational advertising platform services, infrastructure, and ranking systems or develop AI-powered consumer experiences for search, discovery, and shopping. Key responsibilities include partnering with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Research teams to deliver customer-focused solutions using data-driven decision-making and experimentation. Required skills include experience in retail or consumer advertising products, while preferred qualifications include expertise in machine learning, recommendation systems, generative AI, and large language models. Technical candidates should possess working knowledge of SQL and programming languages like Python or JavaScript.
Define and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for advertising and monetization investments.
Use customer insights, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making to prioritize investments and measure success.
Evaluate emerging trends in digital advertising, retail media, commerce, AI, and machine learning to identify growth opportunities.
Communicate product vision, strategy, and results to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Define requirements for advertising infrastructure, services, APIs, ranking systems, and monetization platforms.
Lead initiatives to improve search, discovery, and shopping journeys through AI-powered personalization and recommendations.
Drive investments that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency across the advertising ecosystem.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product management including advertising in retail or consumer products, or equivalent experience.
Experience owning product strategy, roadmap development, and execution for complex products or platforms (preferred).
Experience using data, experimentation, and customer insights to drive decision-making (preferred).
Experience building and scaling advertising, commerce, search, marketplace, recommendation, or consumer products (preferred).
Experience leading products from concept through launch and long-term growth (preferred).
Experience improving product, customer, or business metrics through experimentation and optimization (preferred).
Experience building products leveraging machine learning, recommendation systems, ranking technologies, generative AI, or large language models (preferred).
Working knowledge of SQL and programming languages such as Python or JavaScript (preferred).