Senior Product Manager, Search
Company: Beacon Talent
Location: San Diego
Posted on: December 30, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description Senior Product Manager, Search
About the Client Our client is a fast-growing, product-led B2B
platform that connects professional buyers with an extensive
catalog of specialty products. Operating across North America, they
power time-sensitive discovery and ordering workflows for thousands
of users daily. The company blends marketplace operations with
modern data and search technology to deliver reliable, high-quality
results at scale. About the Role You’ll be the end-to-end owner of
search and discovery. Your mission is to improve how users find the
right products—fast—by shaping strategy, defining the roadmap, and
shipping features that lift relevance, recall, and conversion.
You’ll partner closely with engineering, data science, design, and
operations to evolve everything from indexing and ranking to
facets, filters, and UX. Responsibilities Own the search strategy,
OKRs, and roadmap (query understanding, ranking, recall/precision,
and latency). Translate user and business needs into clear PRDs,
specs, and experiments; prioritize ruthlessly. Drive relevance
improvements: signals, scoring features, boosting, synonym/typo
handling, and zero-result mitigation. Evolve information
architecture: categories, taxonomies, attributes, facets, and
structured data quality. Partner with engineering to advance the
search stack (e.g., Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr, vector/semantic
search, embeddings, re-ranking). Design and interpret A/B tests;
monitor metrics such as search success rate, CTR, add-to-cart,
conversion, reformulation rate, and time-to-find. Collaborate with
design on intuitive search UX: autosuggest, query builder, result
layouts, filters, saved searches, and recent activity. Work with
data teams on ingestion, deduplication, enrichment, and freshness
SLAs; improve crawl/ingest pipelines. Establish operational
playbooks: relevance tuning cadences, quality audits, and incident
response for search outages. Communicate outcomes and insights to
stakeholders; champion a discovery-driven, experiment-first
culture. Requirements 5–8 years in Product Management with
meaningful ownership of search, discovery, or recommendations in a
data-rich product. Proven delivery of measurable relevance and
conversion improvements via experimentation. Strong quantitative
skills; comfortable with dashboards and SQL to self-serve insights.
Experience partnering with search/relevance engineers and data
scientists (signals, features, embeddings, re-rankers). Familiarity
with enterprise search technologies (e.g.,
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene) and modern
experimentation/analytics tools. Excellent product sense and UX
instincts; ability to turn ambiguous problems into simple,
effective experiences. Clear, concise communicator who can align
cross-functional teams and influence at multiple levels. Preferred
Exposure to vector databases/ANN, semantic search, LLM-powered
retrieval/rewrites, or learning-to-rank. Background in marketplace,
catalog, or multi-attribute product search. Experience improving
data quality (attributes, taxonomy, normalization) at scale.
Benefits & Why Join High Impact: Own a mission-critical surface
used by every customer, every day. Complex Problem Space: Blend
ML-driven relevance, information architecture, and elegant UX.
Growth & Visibility: Executive exposure and a clear path to broader
ownership across discovery and recommendations. Supportive Package:
Competitive salary, bonus program, comprehensive health coverage,
retirement plan, generous PTO, and flexible work arrangements.
Keywords: Beacon Talent, Poway , Senior Product Manager, Search, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
