James Kelm

VP Products, Ads & Media

2025

Chief Product Officer

2023 - 2025

I led the cross-functional organization at Nextdoor responsible for product, design, and research. We delivered 10% WAU growth and 17% revenue growth in 2024 while transforming the core product for launch in mid-2025.

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.