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General Manager, Redfin Rentals

Posted 11 Days Ago
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In-Office
San Fransisco, CA
254K-344K Annually
Expert/Leader
In-Office
San Fransisco, CA
254K-344K Annually
Expert/Leader
Lead Redfin Rentals, building and scaling a national rental advertising marketplace for property managers. Own pricing, revenue, margin, inventory acquisition, advertiser onboarding, billing, sales, and marketplace operations. Partner closely with product and engineering teams to deliver systems and meet regulatory deadlines. Grow the commercial business, manage a large P&L, develop high-performing teams, and use AI to improve pricing, operations, customer acquisition, and decision-making.
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Redfin seeks a general manager to build its new business of selling advertising to property managers, reporting to Redfin's Chief Product Officer. Redfin already reaches millions of renters across Redfin.com, Rent.com, and ApartmentGuide.com - but we haven't yet monetized that demand through a modern advertising marketplace. You'll 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. Redfin's mission is to reinvent real estate in the consumer's favor, and renters are often the earliest part of that journey. You'll 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 don't 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 you'll make about what we sell, how we package it, and how we charge for it. You'll define the pricing model - per-lease, per-lead, subscription, performance based, or a model this category hasn't seen.
With Redfin now powered by Rocket, this business has room to grow fast. This isn't a green-field bet - it's 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. You'll turn it into revenue - on a timeline that matters.
An Operator Who Can Think Big
First and foremost, you'll be a hands-on operator who can make a complex commercial engine hum. You'll oversee a marketplace serving thousands of property managers, ensuring the right inventory reaches the right renters at the right moment. You'll build the systems - the Advertiser Portal, Billing System, Sales Team, and inventory acquisition model - that make this business scale.
But you'll also be a big thinker, someone who makes bold decisions that position Redfin to modernize rental advertising. You'll decide how property managers onboard, how listings flow across our brands, how we measure performance, and how we price demand. Product and engineering don't 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 10-15 years of commercial leadership experience, ideally in marketplaces, advertising, or B2B subscription businesses, with time owning both revenue and margin.
  • Operator - You've rapidly grown revenue in digital businesses that sell demand to SMBs or sales teams. You've managed large P&Ls, customer conversations, and frontline insights to make fast, high-impact decisions.
  • AI-native - You don't just use AI; you know it fundamentally changes the way businesses are run. You'll leverage AI to accelerate pricing, operations, customer acquisition, and decision-making - and you know where AI changes economics and where it doesn't.
  • Big thinker - You aim to make any business you own widely successful. You follow the logic wherever it leads, and you've beaten larger incumbents before.
  • High-energy, principled team leader - You bring urgency, optimism, and resilience, and you build diverse, high-trust 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, lead-gen 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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About u s
Red f i n is a technology-driven real estate company with the country's most-visited real estate brokerage website. As part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), Red f i n is creating an integrated homeownership platform from search to close to make the dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for everyone. Red f i n's 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.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the c ompany at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The c ompany provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected] .
The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $253,900-$343,500 . The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here . The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company's current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate .] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

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