Senior Product Manager for Search

Duties: As a Senior Product Manager for Search, within the IT Engineering group, you will be responsible for defining the vision and roadmap for Enterprise search utilized by external Client Customers and internal Client employees. You will deeply understand and triangulate across customer needs, product analytics, and external industry innovation to offer best-in-class search experience to our end users. You will work with domain specialists and engineers to improve and deliver a personalized and relevant search experience on multiple, global, applications.What you'll do: Drive product vision and strategy for enterprise search capabilities to continuously improve result relevancy and ranking Develop product roadmaps that inform our engineering teams of the problems that need to be solved. Partner closely with our engineering teams on the execution of product strategy and roadmaps Create strong partnerships with business stakeholders creating continuous feedback loops that allow us to better understand their problems Articulate our search platform strategy, rollout and migrations plans informed by an evaluation of vendor solutions.Actively network with key industry contacts to understand standard methodologies and emerging practices and how they can be used within the company Work closely with design teams to deliver compelling search experiences that are personalized, contextual, relevant, and intent based.Define and standardize Key Performance Indicators that will help aid in the decision-making process and showcase results Drive A/B testing to experiment with various search strategies and identify launch candidates that improve product metrics and outcomes Extensive experience working with engineering teams as a Product Owner to develop products using an Agile delivery methodology, specifically Scrum or Kanban Product backlog prioritization responsibility to ensure the highest business value is being delivered.Independently author technical feature requirements in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria for varying business scenarios Ensure that our product evolution thoughtfully addresses product adoption/migration experience Build strong relationships internally and externally; present roadmaps, sophisticated ideas and features to broad teams in an effective manner Skills:7+ years of experience as a product manager3+ years experience product managing search technologies (Elasticsearch3+ / SOLR)Ability to manage a portfolio of bigger and smaller bets while balancing short-term goals and long-term vision Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success and problem solving without perfect metrics Knowledge of computer science fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, design patterns) and basic knowledge of search results algorithms for promotion, faceted searches, boosting query, and filter queries.Willingness to be on a constant learning journey and continuously go above and beyond the comfort zone.Good balance of IQ & EQ to be able to solve both technical and social challenges Excellent written and verbal communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations. An active listener and clear communicator; can lead by influence. Keywords:Education:Hold a current Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification preferred Experience operating with a geographically dispersed workforce