Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Search and Discovery
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Brea, CA, USA
Salary Range / Rate: $150,000 - $230, 000 (USD)
Job ID#: 174603
Job Description:The Senior Product Manager, Search & Discovery will own the systems and product experiences that help customers efficiently find, explore, and engage with the right products across the platform. This role will define product strategy, roadmap, and delivery plans by working backward from search and discovery goals and targeted business outcomes, including improvements in search relevance, query understanding, conversion rate, click-through rate, null/lowresult rate, search-driven GMV, and overall customer satisfaction. The role will partner closely with engineering, data Science, analytics, merchandising, UX Design, and content teams to build and evolve end-to-end search and discovery capabilities.
Responsibilities: • Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for search and discovery systems.
• Drive improvements in key metrics including search relevance, CTR, conversion rate, null/low-result rate, and search-driven GMV.
• Lead development of core search and discovery capabilities, including:
- Query understanding and intent recognition
- Search ranking and relevance optimization
- Autocomplete and query suggestions
- Browse and navigation taxonomy
- Personalized search and recommendations
- Search analytics and performance dashboards
- Content discovery and merchandising integration
- Search result presentation, including trust signals, product differentiation, and information architecture
• Partner closely with Engineering and Data Science teams to define model objectives, evaluate performance, and translate ML capabilities into product features.
• Collaborate with Merchandising, Content, and UX teams to improve product discovery and overall customer experience.
• Establish clear success metrics, conduct root-cause analysis, and translate insights into actionable product improvements.
• Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders and ensure strong execution across distributed teams.
Requirements:• 5+ years of Product Management experience delivering scaled search, discovery, or recommendation systems within e-commerce, marketplace, or content platform environments.
• Deep understanding of search and information retrieval concepts, including:
- Query parsing
- Intent classification
- Ranking algorithms
- Indexing
- Recall and precision trade-offs
- Relevance tuning
• Strong knowledge of search and discovery metrics, including CTR, conversion rate, null-result rate, MRR, NDCG, search exit rate, add-to-cart rate, and search- attributed GMV.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis, problem framing, success-metric definition, and translating insights into product/system capabilities.
• Experience working with Machine Learning and Data Science teams to define model objectives, evaluate model performance, and translate ML capabilities into product features.
• Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across engineering, data Science, merchandising, content, and other cross-functional teams.
• Leadership experience working with distributed or remote engineering teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
Compensation: The pay offered to a successful candidate will be determined by various factors, including education, work experience, location, job responsibilities, certifications, and more. Additionally, IntelliPro provides a comprehensive benefits package, all subject to eligibility.
