Lead Product Manager (Search)

Location: Primary residence required in or near approved cities in the United States, Canada, or Mexico; occasional in-person attendance is required.

Salary: $151,000–$256,000 in the United States, depending on geographic market; $179,000–$228,000 CAD in Canada.

Company

hirify.global operates digital products including hirify.global, SlideShare, Everand, and Fable to help people access knowledge, learning, and expertise.

What you will do

• Set the multi-year strategy and roadmap for search across query understanding, retrieval, ranking, and results presentation.
• Partner with ML Engineering and Applied Research to productionize semantic embeddings, BM25, retrieval, ranking, and real-time behavioral signals.
• Define and monitor search success metrics including query success rate, zero-result rate, click-through, subscription conversion, and retention.
• Balance incremental relevance improvements and revenue goals with development of an extensible search platform aligned with the AI strategy.
• Combine experiment results, query analytics, user interviews, and feedback to guide prioritization and feature design.
• Align product, engineering, design, content, and executive stakeholders around requirements, timelines, deliverables, and expected impact.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading search or recommendations products in a high-traffic consumer environment.
• Experience shipping ML-driven features that improved engagement, conversion, or revenue at scale.
• Experience designing LLM- and GenAI-enhanced user experiences that deliver task-specific value beyond chat.
• Hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python or R, prototyping tools, and model evaluation.
• Deep familiarity with retrieval and ranking algorithms, embeddings, feature stores, and end-to-end customer journeys.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with vector databases and end-to-end MLOps or LLMOps workflows.
• Passion for written content, open knowledge, and products that help people learn, teach, and create.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global Flex supports flexible workstyles while requiring intentional in-person collaboration.
• Health, dental, vision, mental health, disability, and family support benefits.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
• Retirement matching, employee equity, learning and development programs, wellness and home office stipends.
• Access to hirify.global products and enterprise access to AI tools.