Senior Analytics Manager - Search Ontology (AI)

Location: Onsite five days a week in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, or Dallas, TX. The position requires up to 10% travel. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available.

Salary: $159,120.00–$258,570.00 per year

Company

hirify.global's Cat Digital organization builds digital and technology solutions using connected-asset data, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI for customers and dealers.

What you will do

• Set the long-term technical direction for scalable search analytics platforms supporting websites and ecommerce.
• Design search analytics architecture, enterprise integrations, and software product solutions across platforms and systems.
• Introduce NLP, vector search, personalization, semantic capabilities, and ontology-driven search improvements.
• Define and track search KPIs such as click-through rate, query distribution, and zero-search results.
• Recruit, manage, and mentor one or more software engineering teams while aligning delivery with business objectives.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineering leaders to operate reliable search services.

Requirements

• Experience leading software engineering, software architecture, or software product teams of 15 or more people across multiple pods.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, statistics, computer science, economics, mathematics, engineering, finance, or a related field.
• Experience with ecommerce, websites, AI search deployments, and search products such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, Coveo, or Lucidworks Fusion.
• Strong expertise in OWL 2-based ontology design for search engines, semantic capabilities, metadata management, and governance.
• Experience with AWS, relational databases, Snowflake, Python, notebooks, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Practical experience applying machine learning to improve search relevance, plus knowledge of software development, integration, testing, and IT service management.

Nice to have

• Proficiency with AI code generation tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, or GitHub Copilot.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
• 401(k), HSA, FSA, disability, life insurance, and parental leave benefits.
• Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, and employee discounts.
• Drug screening is required as a condition of employment.