Director of Product Management – Query Understanding and Whole Page Optimization

Director of Product Management – Query Understanding and Whole Page Optimization

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, particularly in ML-driven systems, natural language understanding, or search technologies.
• Expertise in leading technical product areas involving ML classifiers, embeddings, LLMs, or similar AI-driven technologies.
• Experience assessing ML model effectiveness, guiding iterative improvements based on data, metrics, and user insights.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a data-driven decision-making approach.
• Proven track record of cross-functional leadership, managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a comprehensive vision, strategy, and roadmap for Query Understanding (QU) and Whole Page Optimization (WPO) teams.
• Partner with ML and science teams to advance query understanding systems, embedding-based classifiers, and triggering decisions.
• Leverage metrics, experimentation, and user insights to identify high-impact areas and continuously improve search relevance and user satisfaction.
• Drive holistic page optimization strategies that balance user relevance, internal product requirements, and revenue considerations.
• Build platform capabilities that enable vertical product teams to leverage foundational query understanding, triggering, slotting, and ranking systems.
• Manage complex stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment and clear communication of strategic priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience at a consumer-focused technology company specializing in search or recommendation systems.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art NLP technologies, including LLMs and embeddings-based models.
• Experience developing platform products and capabilities leveraged by internal or external teams.
• Ability to navigate organizational complexity in a dynamic, high-growth environment.