Staff Product Manager, Ads Monetization - Searcher Monetization

The team & organization:

Reddit Ads provides a robust, high-scale advertising solution designed to connect brands with an engaged, authentic community. We aim to deliver advertising that feels native to the platform while driving real business results. As part of the Reddit Ads team, you’ll be at the forefront of reshaping how brands engage with our communities.

The Reddit Ads Marketplace team is responsible for Ads quality, delivery and serving. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-performing team that will shape how we monetize the Reddit platform and to help connect redditors with brands they love. We are seeking a product manager who can drive the product vision, development, and execution of our Search related ad products at Reddit.

The Opportunity:

Reddit is at a pivotal moment in its evolution, and we’re growing our Ads team to take the platform’s monetization to new heights. As a Staff Product Manager on our Ads Marketplace team, you will play a pivotal role in how we design the experience for users who come to reddit to find something specific. This is an opportunity to work on one of the most exciting areas in online advertising, where the scale, complexity, and user-first mindset of Reddit’s platform present unique challenges and rewards.

If you're looking for a role where you can make a real impact by driving both innovation and measurable business outcomes, then this is the role for you!

Role Overview:

Every day millions of users come to Reddit to find something specific that is useful and trustworthy.  Search related visits are some of the most critical and valuable user journeys at Reddit.  As a Staff Product Manager, you will be the leader driving monetization vision and a key contributor to defining all search related activities at Reddit. This is a key area of investment for the company, and this role will be at the forefront of shaping our approach in this space.

What You'll Do:

• Own The Product Strategy: You will define the monetization vision for highly intentful search related experiences at Reddit, optimizing for long term success. 
• Provide Leadership:  You will be the overall E2E owner of the area - leading strategy, development, and launch of advertising products for all search related advertising within Reddit including Reddit Answers (our generative AI search experience), as well as users who visit us via referrals from Search Engines and LLMs. 
• Collaborate With Teams Across the Org: You will work closely with  Consumer, Formats, Marketplace, and UX teams to build surfaces that incorporate ads natively and sensibly with the goal of retaining searchers and maximizing their engagement on the platform. 
• Turn Product Vision Into Reality: You will translate business goals and user needs into clear product requirements, guide technical trade-offs, and ensure alignment across teams.
• Drive Monetization:  Lead the monetization efforts for search related activities on Reddit
• Make Data-Driven Decisions: Use a deep understanding of metrics, analyti