Director of Product Management, Ads Quality and Performance - Moloco Commerce Media

About Moloco: Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy. Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance. Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin. Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now! About the Role Moloco is an AI-native company. We built our reputation on outcome-based advertising powered by deep learning, and we are now democratizing that capability for commerce: putting the same caliber of ML that the largest technology companies built for themselves into the hands of retailers, marketplaces, and commerce platforms. Moloco Commerce Media (MCM) is where that happens. Some of the world's largest commerce platforms run their advertising business on MCM, using our AI to improve what shoppers see and grow their ad revenue at the same time. Retail media is the fastest-growing channel in advertising, and most retailers still compete on ad load and CPC floors. We think the frontier problem is somewhere else. Ad quality and performance, meaning relevance, ranking, bidding, and measurement, is what actually decides whether an ad works. Getting it right means reasoning about shopper intent, item relevance, and advertiser economics simultaneously, across billions of decisions a day. It is a hard AI problem, and it is largely unsolved across this industry. As Director of Product Management for Ads Quality and Performance, you set the strategy for the domain and are accountable for what it delivers: our customers' ad businesses growing past the ceiling that weak relevance, blunt targeting, and unclear attribution impose on them. You will work alongside our ML, bidding, and data science teams, hold the whole picture across retrieval, scoring, bidding, pacing, and measurement, and define what best-in-class looks like in commerce. You will start as the senior individual owner of this domain, with the mandate and the support to build a team around it as the work scales. This role reports to the Head of Product, Moloco Commerce Media. What You Will Do You will work across MCM's most technical teams: ML and applied science, bidding, and data science. Your job is turning frontier ML and bidding optimization capabilities into products that perform at commerce scale. Own the ads quality and performance product roadmap, and deliver results. Translate advertiser and platform problems into ML, bidding, and quality problems. Decide what the system optimizes for and why, so the roadmap targets the business outcome rather than the metric that is easiest to move. Ship performance controls that empower our customers. Turn manual, often one-off technical capabilities and implementations into scalable product solutions. Make difficult trade-offs. Relevance against revenue. Advertiser value against platform yield. Short-term lift against long-term trust. These get debated and decided in your forum, with evidence. Move complex problems across customer, technical, and organizational lines. In add…