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Senior Product Manager - Search/Multimodal Indexing (Datagrid)

Procore Technologies · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteMarketingFull-time

What you’ll do

  • Define and execute the technical product strategy for our multi-modal indexing and retrieval architecture, ensuring it serves as a highly precise foundation for all search and AI workflows.
  • Own the roadmap for data indexing coverage and freshness, optimizing target latency so newly created project documents, drawings, and blueprints are instantly retrievable.
  • Partner with engineering and architecture leads to drive ingestion pipeline reliability, establishing strict standards for uptime, error rates, and schema fidelity across diverse data connectors.
  • Arcitect a graduated search depth strategy that seamlessly routes queries between shallow search for rapid speed and deep search for multi-layered context.
  • Optimize retrieval quality and context precision specifically to support autonomous agent actions, moving far beyond passive Q&A into execution-ready data delivery.
  • Tackle data scale and information noise by utilizing deep search techniques to cluster, summarize, and extract core themes at the retrieval level.
  • Establish performance metrics and evaluation frameworks, leveraging tools like LLM-as-a-judge to continuously measure and improve search recall and response quality.
  • Collaborate across the Datagrid division to align backend retrieval capabilities with downstream AI workflows, ensuring our core data engine scales effectively.

What we’re looking for

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical work experience.
  • 3+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record of handling enterprise-class software, databases, or complex data platforms.
  • Deep technical understanding of LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), search indexing architectures, or vector databases.
  • Exceptional platform and systems thinking skills, with an innate ability to understand how data moves through complex, distributed environments.
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity in highly technical problem spaces, distilling multifaced, abstract ideas into clear requirements that drive engineering consensus.
  • Strong customer-centric discovery mindset, showing proficiency in translating complex end-user workflows into technical backend systems requirements.
  • Outstanding cross-functional collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead through influence and build trust across engineering and architecture teams.
  • Experience in B2B SaaS or Construction Tech handling multi-modal datasets (drawings, photos, BIM models, or schedules) is a significant plus.

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