Job Description

What’s the role?

Etsy is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead Etsy Ads, our on-site ad platform. 

Etsy Ads is used by our smallest and largest sellers to grow their businesses and it is one of Etsy’s major revenue streams. You will collaborate with the Ads product teams and company leadership to grow the platform and ensure that advertising on Etsy continues to be a great investment for our sellers. The work of the Ads team spans the end-to-end experience on Etsy.com and the Etsy app, from promoting your items as a seller to shopping with ads, as well as the machine learning and infrastructure in between.

We are looking for an experienced product leader who is comfortable running high-performing teams to meet specific business goals. We need someone who can set a monetization strategy, foster the collaboration necessary for ML-powered experiences, and drive alignment for their product area across the company. You can learn more about our philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been tackling in a Code as Craft article that describes how we built our bidding system.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Product Director, Search & Ads and the base salary range will be 218,000 - 283,000 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our flexible work options and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

You will supervise or lead work on challenging product and people problems such as: 

• How can we ensure that the right ads are put in front of the buyers while enabling all sellers to promote themselves?
• How can we help sellers figure out how to fit advertising into their business plans? 
• What is the right team structure for a product with machine learning at its core?
• How can we improve personalization while protecting user privacy?
• How should Etsy Ads help Etsy meet its short and long term financial targets?

What does the day-to-day look like?

• You will provide leadership for the Etsy Ads product 
• You will manage a highly skilled and engaged team of PMs and PM managers
• You will invest in the growth of your reports, direct and indirect, and their cross-functional partners
• You will collaborate with all Ads leads to craft plans to achieve business goals.
• You will work with leader from across the company to set the direction of Etsy’s advertising platform
• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy’s discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• You have experience managing consumer product areas that account for a material portion of the business, including influencing executive teams.
• You have proven that you can lead teams of over six product teams that work on complex engineering systems, including machine learning.
• You are an excellent product management coach and developer of managers. 
• Experience with advertising, search, or recommendations is a bonus.
• You understand how to create strategic alignment with cross-functional partners and adjacent teams.
• You are comfortable translating high-level business requirements into goals and roadmaps with your team 
• You can crisply communicate the technical details of your product to those outside of your team.
• You value people who are curious, enthusiastic, generous, and responsible.