General Manager, Redfin Rentals
Seattle, OR - USA
Job Summary
Redfin seeks a general manager to build its new business of selling advertising to property managers reporting to Redfins Chief Product Officer. Redfin already reaches millions of renters across and but we havent yet monetized that demand through a modern advertising marketplace. Youll build that business from scratch - designing the pricing model the commercial engine and the systems that make it scale.
Your job is to structure a two-sided marketplace where renters get the listings and guidance they need and property managers get the qualified demand that fills their buildings. Redfins mission is to reinvent real estate in the consumers favor and renters are often the earliest part of that journey. Youll think big about how technology pricing and marketplace design can reshape rental advertising but property managers are the paying customers and serving them well is how this business wins.
The Opportunity: Turning National Renter Demand into a Commercial Engine
Roughly 31% of American households rent and nearly all begin their search online. Redfin already reaches renters on a national scale across its rental brands demand that would take a new entrant years and significant capital to build. What we dont yet do is sell advertising directly to the property managers and owners who fill those buildings. That is the opportunity.
The immediate prize is execution: building a marketplace where property managers upload inventory manage listings and buy demand that converts. But the bigger prize comes from the decisions youll make about what we sell how we package it and how we charge for it. Youll define the pricing model perlease perlead subscription performance based or a model this category hasnt seen.
With Redfin now powered by Rocket this business has room to grow fast. This isnt a green-field bet its a mandate with a clock on it. Following our recent agreement with the FTC Redfin has committed to rebuilding and significantly expanding its rental listings business with real deadlines and executive-level backing to move fast. That means resources urgency and a company-wide commitment behind whoever leads this. The demand is already here. Youll turn it into revenue on a timeline that matters.
An Operator Who Can Think Big
First and foremost youll be a hands-on operator who can make a complex commercial engine hum. Youll oversee a marketplace serving thousands of property managers ensuring the right inventory reaches the right renters at the right moment. Youll build the systems the Advertiser Portal Billing System Sales Team and inventory acquisition model that make this business scale.
But youll also be a big thinker someone who makes bold decisions that position Redfin to modernize rental advertising. Youll decide how property managers onboard how listings flow across our brands how we measure performance and how we price demand. Product and engineering dont report to you; your influence comes from clarity evidence and direction.
Getting these decisions right is what will make this business win
Who You Are
- Experienced commercial leader You have 1015 years of commercial leadership experience ideally in marketplaces advertising or B2B subscription businesses with time owning both revenue and margin.
- Operator - Youve rapidly grown revenue in digital businesses that sell demand to SMBs or sales teams. Youve managed large P&Ls customer conversations and frontline insights to make fast highimpact decisions.
- AI-native - You dont just use AI; you know it fundamentally changes the way businesses are run. Youll leverage AI to accelerate pricing operations customer acquisition and decisionmaking and you know where AI changes economics and where it doesnt.
- Big thinker You aim to make any business you own widely successful. You follow the logic wherever it leads and youve beaten larger incumbents before.
- Highenergy principled team leader You bring urgency optimism and resilience and you build diverse hightrust teams that perform. You hire exceptional people grow overperformers and address underperformance quickly all while operating with transparency and making hard decisions with clarity and fairness.
- Great communicator You listen closely and speak clearly. You adapt your message to your audience from frontline employees to board members. You seek truth not consensus.
- Helpful but not required: Multifamily proptech listing services leadgen economics partner channels regulatory experience or self-serve motions.
- A close product partner: Experience shipping through product and engineering teams that do not report to the role and delivering against a fixed external date with real consequences for missing it.
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Aboutus
Redfinis a technology-driven real estate company with the countrys most-visited real estate brokerage website. As part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT)Redfin is creating an integrated homeownership platform from search to close tomakethe dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for clients can see homes first with on-demand tours easily apply for a home loan with Rocket Mortgage and save thousands in fees while working with a top local agent.
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