Staff Product Manager, Recommendations & Discovery
About the role
Babylist is a leading platform for expecting and new families, with over 10 million users annually. They have expanded their offerings to include the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, Babylist Money, and more, generating $750M in revenue in 2025. This role involves owning personalization and discovery across the consumer experience, including the homepage feed, product recommendations, and ML-powered systems.
What The Role Is
We are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead personalization and discovery at Babylist. This role requires experience in ML-powered consumer products, owning recommendation, personalization, and discovery surfaces end-to-end at scale. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in ML organizations and will be responsible for setting the quality bar, defining the one-year horizon, and shaping how the entire company thinks about personalization.
Who You Are
- A demonstrated product leader with meaningful time inside ML-powered consumer products
- Senior PM, Staff PM, GPM, or comparable Lead roles
- Real technical fluency with ML systems
- Strategic foresight and deep customer expertise
- Commercial ownership and clarity of thought
- Strong background in e-commerce or marketplaces, or experience building or scaling an ML personalization function
How You Will Make An Impact
- Own recommendations and discovery at Babylist end-to-end
- Set the one-year horizon for product personalization at Babylist
- Be a true peer to the ML EM and shape the modeling, data, and evaluation infrastructure
- Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical direction
- Make the hard tradeoffs and set the quality bar for ML-powered experiences
- Raise the whole company's judgment about ML investment and build belief in funding the right bets
- Operate as an AI-enabled builder and use AI-native workflows in your own work
- Mentor and develop the PMs around you