Lead Product Manager, Search
Scribd, Inc. · San Francisco, CA · 5 days ago
Marketing$177k/yrFull-time
Qualifications
- 6+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading search or recommendations products in a high-traffic consumer environment
- Demonstrated success shipping ML-driven features that moved core business metrics (engagement, conversion, or revenue) for large scale products
- Experience designing LLM- and GenAI-enhanced user experiences that go beyond raw chat to deliver task-specific value
- Hands-on proficiency with SQL and a scripting language (Python or R) for rapid data exploration
- Proficiency with prototyping tools, and model evaluation
- Deep familiarity with retrieval and ranking algorithms, embeddings, and feature stores — paired with the ability to reason about end-to-end customer journeys for distinct user segments
- Track record of thriving amid ambiguity: shaping a multi-year vision, aligning cross-functional teams, and delivering incremental wins along the way
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — adept at crafting product briefs, bringing in inputs from multiple teams, and presenting data-backed decisions to senior leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Bonus points: Familiarity with modern ML operations tooling — from vector databases to end-to-end model-ops workflows (MLOps / LLMOps) — and the ability to collaborate with engineering teams that rely on these systems
- Passion for the written word and open knowledge — a genuine drive to build products that democratize expertise and help people learn, teach, and create