Senior Product Manager, Search and Recommendations

Senior Product Manager, Search & Recommendations

locations

Remote US

time type

Full time

job requisition id

JR13129

Job Title

Senior Product Manager, Search & Recommendations

Job Description

About Your Role:

Dotdash Meredith seeks a Senior Product Manager who will help us build a world-class platform that is used by dozens of development teams driving innovation for more than 30 brands that reach over 100 million users each month. This team is responsible for developing and maintaining the APIs that power various information retrieval features across all of our digital platforms. In this role you will be responsible for enhancing our platform’s capabilities including search algorithms, recommendations/recirculation APIs and recent Large Language Model (LLM) explorations. You’ll report to the Director of Product, Core Platform Services.

Our ideal candidate has hands-on experience with search and recommendations, particularly relating to changes Generative AI is having on digital media.

About Your Contributions:

• Product Vision: Align the teams’ work to company-wide priorities and goals by developing a forward-looking product vision for foundational search and recommendations capabilities.
• Roadmap: Work with stakeholders and technical leaders to build a roadmap for the features and capabilities of our platform that will increase audience engagement with our content, and that improve the discoverability of content within our internal tools. Examples might include: integrating a vector database into our search ecosystem; building and deploying a new recirculation algorithm; creating an asset recommendation API for use within our publishing platform
• User Focus: Create solutions for users first, help your team to cultivate empathy for their end users and be an advocate for their needs. Research what your users might want or need to ensure we are creating products for them that are as helpful as possible by conducting discovery, qualitative research, and competitive analysis.
• Orchestration: Prioritize and drive initiatives across multiple engineering and data science teams, acting as the product SME from a functional perspective, showcasing, championing, and finding ways to constantly innovate.
• Technical Grasp: Understand Dotdash Meredith and vendor APIs, their usage, and their impact on the platform ecosystem.
• Product Development: as a product owner, work with cross-functional, agile teams to develop, launch, optimize, and maintain/retire features in a fast-paced environment; make the call on desired product functionality and make real-time decisions to ensure that we are on track to meet business goals.
• Performance Monitoring Tools: Implement robust performance monitoring tools to continuously assess and fine-tune the search and recommendation algorithms for optimal user experience.
• Search Relevance: Ensure the search algorithm consistently delivers highly relevant results, taking into account factors such as user intent, content freshness, and personalization.
• Recirculation Algorithms: Optimize recirculation algorithms to increase user engagement by recommending relevant content and maximizing user session duration.
• A/B Testing: Conduct regular A/B tests to validate the effectiveness of algorithm changes and gather insights for further improvements.

About You:

• Platform thinking is part of your DNA. You naturally build for scale and reuse, always thinking ahead to the longer-term.
• You possess an innate desire to collect, synthesize, and analyze data to inform your decision-making.
• You are familiar with the varied ways people look for, discover and consume digital content and data, and apply that knowledge to building effective, usable search interfaces.
• 4+ years of hands-on product managementday-to-day product ownership and ideation. Previous experience working with internal tools preferred.
• You’re excellent at communicating and collaborating with a wide range of teams and stakeholders to build great products.
• You’re able to juggle the needs of multiple audience segments and develop strategic product plans for each of them.
• You have a passion for figuring out user problems and pain points.
• You’re capable of developing products with a big-picture strategy for meeting user needs, selling it, and then working out the details to get the plan over the finish line.
• You’re fluent in Agile principles and methodology.
• Prior experience working with data scientists in addition to engineering teams is a big plus.

It is the policy of Meredith Operations Corporation (“Dotdash Meredith”, “the Company”) to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

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Pay Range

Salary: $115,000 – $165,000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.