Senior Product Manager - Search & Ranking

The role

You will shape how search, ranking and personalisation work across the buyer journey to help buyers find special objects. You will own the strategy, outcomes and execution for this area by leading a cross functional team.

What you will do

• Set and communicate a clear product vision, strategy and roadmap for Search and Ranking.
• Own measurable outcomes across search relevance, discovery, engagement and buyer conversion.
• Use behavioural data, customer research and commercial insight to identify and prioritise the biggest opportunities.
• Turn ambiguous customer and business problems into clear hypotheses, prototypes and executable plans.
• Lead initiatives from early discovery through experimentation, launch and scaling.
• Define success metrics and build a rigorous experimentation agenda for search, ranking and personalisation.
• Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to assess model quality, test new approaches and improve customer outcomes.
• Improve the relevance of search results and recommendations across the buyer journey.
• Integrate personalisation into the customer experience.
• Design, run and evaluate experiments to guide decisions.

Required qualifications

• At least five years of product management experience.
• Experience owning a broad product area or customer journey.
• Experience defining product strategy or roadmaps for search, ranking, recommendations, personalisation or other machine learning products.
• Confidence working with product metrics, experiments and commercial performance.
• Experience designing, running and analysing A/B tests, including tests involving machine learning products.
• The ability to turn uncertain opportunities into clear hypotheses, prototypes and plans.
• A practical understanding of machine learning concepts and how models become useful product experiences.
• Experience working closely with machine learning engineers and data scientists to develop and improve customer facing features.
• Comfort using AI tools to prototype quickly and explore customer experiences.
• The ability to balance immediate commercial opportunities with longer term product and platform investments.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority.
• The pace, resilience and judgement to maintain a high standard of execution in an ambiguous environment.

Nice to have

• preferably in consumer ecommerce, marketplaces or another digital product at scale

Benefits

• Relocation package for people currently living outside the Netherlands
• Learning & Development initiatives including development plans and mentorship programmes
• Inclusive and queer-friendly environment
• €100 Catavoucher when you join
• €50 Catavoucher on your birthday
• An extra day off each year to Pursue Your Passion
• Additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events

Before you apply

• Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter
• We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the review of your application

About the company

Catawiki is a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. It is a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up.