Director, Product Management, Search Monetization (AI)

Location: United States of America. Flexible hybrid work; occasional in-person events or team sessions may be required.

Salary: $150,380–$327,025 per year, with potential discretionary annual bonus or commissions.

Company

hirify.global operates consumer internet products and advertising solutions, including hirify.global Search and hirify.global Advertising.

What you will do

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for monetization across traditional and AI-powered hirify.global Search experiences, including Scout.
• Improve search advertising revenue and RPM while maintaining ad quality, relevance, and user experience standards.
• Optimize sponsored search through ranking, placement, density, query coverage, marketplace, and yield improvements.
• Design, prototype, test, and scale new advertising formats and commercial experiences for conversational, generative, and agentic search.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science on ranking systems, machine learning models, decisioning systems, experimentation, and platform investments.
• Work with advertising and technology partners plus cross-functional teams to define requirements, launch products, and scale monetization initiatives.

Requirements

• 9+ years of Product Management or equivalent experience, including significant experience building and optimizing advertising or monetization products at scale.
• 5+ years of direct experience with search advertising, sponsored search, or closely related performance advertising products.
• Experience with ad ranking, relevance, placement, query coverage, yield, marketplace dynamics, experimentation, and large-scale product metrics.
• Experience working with programmatic advertising marketplaces, external ad platforms, advertising partners, or similar multi-party ecosystems.
• Technical fluency for working with engineers and data scientists on machine learning models, ranking and decisioning systems, experimentation frameworks, data pipelines, and system architecture.
• Ability to operate as an autonomous, hands-on senior individual contributor and communicate complex product, technical, and business tradeoffs to senior leaders.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale consumer search, commerce, marketplace, or discovery products.
• Experience with machine-learning-powered advertising, relevance models, recommendation systems, auction systems, or marketplace technology.
• Experience developing advertising formats or monetization models for AI-powered, conversational, generative, recommendation, or agentic experiences.
• Familiarity with advertiser economics, auction dynamics, conversion measurement, and attribution.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work options with advance notice for occasional in-person events or team sessions.
• Healthcare benefits and a 401(k) plan.
• Backup childcare and education stipends.
• Annual bonus or commission opportunities may be available.
• Inclusive workplace with employee resource groups and accessibility support.