Principal Product Manager (Search Platform)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (Search Platform): Leading the Search Platform for Lodging Search, architecting the future of semantic search and ranking infrastructure. Focus on driving platform capabilities that power personalized, high-performance search experiences across global brands, productionizing models for relevance, ranking, and semantic understanding.

Location: Must be based in Seattle, WA, USA

Salary: $224,000.00 to $313,500.00

Company

hirify.global brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere by designing cutting-edge tech and creating groundbreaking solutions for partners.

What you will do

• Own the Lodging Search Platform roadmap, with focus on semantic search and search ranking.
• Define and deliver platform capabilities that support high-quality, personalized search experiences across brands.
• Collaborate with ML teams to productionize models for relevance, ranking, and semantic understanding.
• Drive platform scalability, performance, and configurability across global markets.
• Advocate for technical excellence, including model lifecycle management, tech debt reduction, and responsible AI practices.
• Influence product strategy and investment decisions based on business impact and platform leverage.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, with deep expertise in ecommerce search infrastructure, ML-powered systems, and semantic search or equivalent experience.
• Proven success in building platforms that support large-scale, high-traffic consumer experiences.
• Strong technical fluency in search architecture, ML model lifecycle, and API design.
• Experience working with ecommerce search, ranking systems, or recommendation engines.

Nice to have

• Ability to influence across engineering, data science, and design teams.
• Strategic thinker with a bias for action and a passion for solving complex problems.
• Experience in travel, marketplaces, or personalization platforms.
• Experience with multimodal search, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, and a flexible work model.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and recognized for award-winning culture.