Staff Product Manager: Product Discovery Engine

The role

This Staff Product Manager will own the strategy and roadmap for the Search Quality team to improve discovery quality and business metrics. You will partner with ML, data science, and engineering to turn research into production wins across the Product Discovery Engine.

What you will do

• Drive measurable lift in search-attributed conversion, revenue per visit, and GMV.
• Deliver quality and business metrics across all retail verticals.
• Translate ML and IR research into production wins and ship SOTA ML/LLM-assisted capabilities.
• Define multi-quarter direction for the Product Discovery Engine.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for Search Quality.
• Unify recall, ranking, query understanding, and personalization.
• Partner with ML and data science to move models from idea to production.
• Build metrics, evaluation frameworks, and tooling to measure discovery quality.
• Lead investigation and triage when issues arise.
• Expand into chapter-wide leadership.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in search, discovery, ML, or NLP-heavy products.
• Experience operating at a senior or staff level.
• Track record of moving business metrics at scale.
• Experience setting strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end search pipeline: query interpretation, recall, ranking, reranking, personalization, and delivery.
• Strong ML product depth including reasoning about tradeoffs between high-capacity and low-latency approaches.
• Fluency with retrieval and recall, query understanding, and search evaluation frameworks.
• Measurement-first mindset.
• Cross-functional leadership skills to align engineering, data science, and ML Ops.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time
• Competitive compensation package including stock options
• Company-sponsored US health coverage (100% paid for employee)
• Fully remote team
• Work-from-home stipend
• Apple laptops provided
• Training and development budget refreshed each year
• Parental leave for qualified employees

About the company

Constructor powers product search and discovery for large retailers. They focus on metrics over features and reinvent search as a machine learning challenge.