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James Kelm

Chief Product Officer at Nextdoor

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Chief Product Officer

    2023 - Current

    I lead the cross-functional organization at Nextdoor responsible for product, design, and research.

  • Head of Revenue Product

    2022 - 2023

    Our cross-functional revenue product organization executed a roadmap that included: • Launching Nextdoor Ads Manager, a self-service campaign manager for marketers of all sizes • Launching our proprietary Nextdoor Ad Server (NAS), and migrating advertiser budgets off Google Ads Manager to NAS, driving improved performace without adverse revenue impact • Launching additional first and third party measurement capabilities • Launching support for third party brand safety solutions

  • Vice President Of Product Management

    2022 - 2022

    Partnered with engineering, design, research, data science, and commercial teams to build out Twitter's offerings for businesses, self service revenue products, ads workflows, ads API, and shopping.

  • Senior Director of Product Management

    2019 - 2021

  • Director of Product Management

    2017 - 2019

  • Senior Director of Product Management, Flurry Analytics & Yahoo App Publishing

    2014 - 2017

    • Launched Flurry Crash Analytics 2.0, revenue analytics, and new developer onboarding/integration workflow • Built and managed the product team responsible for native ads syndication • Scaled native ads syndication business from $0 to hundreds of millions run rate • Launched Yahoo App Publishing, offering Gemini native ads (display and video) for app developers via the Flurry SDK. • Launched Gemini native ads syndication on mobile and desktop web, scaled business to a nine figure run rate. • Launched Gemini native video ads for publishers. • Launched tumblr In App Sharing, scaled to hundreds of developers and millions of user interactions.

  • COO & Co-Founder

    2012 - 2014

    • Scaled team from founders to twenty-three • Recruited and managed a studio of engineers, QA, and creative contributors to design and launch Tank Nation, a iOS action/strategy game. Apple featured Tank Nation worldwide in the App Store at launch. • Launched features and events to reactivate 250k+ players post-launch, boost retention, usage, and monetization.

  • Senior Producer -> Director of Product

    2012 - 2012

    • Founded and built a second internal studio for casino space • Managed a team of eight • Designed and produced Jackpot Slots, one of the top twenty grossing free-to-play games on Android • Funzio was acquired by GREE in 2012 in a $210 million deal

  • Product Manager

    2006 - 2010

    My projects focused on mobile, advertising, shopping, mobile commerce, and payments. AdSense for Mobile Applications, Product Lead • Built and scaled business from early closed beta to $400m run rate, 1000+ developers • Launched new ad formats, new ad targeting mechanisms, and AdSense UI integration Commerce • Designed and launched the original Gmail Payments in a regulator-approved internal dogfood trial to 8000 Googlers in NY and CA • PM lead for domestic money transmitter license applications • Numerous internationalization features and frameworks for payments-related applications

  • Product Manager, Internet Campaign

    2008 - 2008

    • Designed and launched new campaign website in 96 hours. Tailored UX for multiple audiences: undecided voters, base, and donors. Site reached 1m+ unique visitors and raised $5m+ in donations. • Developed online tools enabling field operations to sign-up and organize volunteers • Created online applications for 500k+ voter touches

  • Product Planner

    2004 - 2005

    Senior worldwide product planner for the iBook, the popular white consumer laptop line that was Apple's highest volume CPU offering at the time.

  • Program Manager

    2004 - 2004

  • Software Engineer

    2000 - 2004

    Software engineering and program management roles in the Solaris organization.

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