Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure

The role

You will own search infrastructure as a product for Tavily, the web access layer for AI agents. You will set quality bars, manage depth, latency, and cost tradeoffs, and shape the direction of the index.

What you will do

• Set the quality bar and release criteria for search
• Own the depth, latency, and cost tradeoffs across search products
• Shape the direction of the index regarding coverage, freshness, and quality
• Build a roadmap for search infrastructure as agents become the main consumer
• Drive work to close gaps compared to alternatives customers evaluate
• Work with customer success and customers to turn feedback into quality priorities
• Partner with data and vertical product owners on corpus content and result shaping

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion spent on high-scale search or ranking systems
• Background as an engineer, ML engineer, or researcher on a production system in high-scale search, feed ranking, or large ad engines
• Direct experience shipping a search or ranking change end to end
• Strong data foundation to design experiments and read eval results
• Product judgment to match technical depth
• Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and how retrieval fits into agentic workflows
• Comfort with ambiguity, moving between strategy and execution
• Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority

Nice to have

• Depth in information retrieval, NLP, or applied machine learning
• Experience with index tiering, sharding, freshness pipelines, or cost-per-query optimisation at scale
• Experience with hybrid retrieval, semantic and lexical search, re-ranking, or human evaluation programs
• Experience in API-first or developer-platform businesses running both self-serve and enterprise motions
• Experience in a high-growth technology company, especially post-acquisition or startup-within-a-larger-org environments

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply
• Will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire

About the company

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises. It is headquartered in Amsterdam and has a global footprint with R&D hubs.