[Hiring] Senior Director, Product Management for Matching @Indeed

Role Description

As the Senior Director of Product Management for Matching, you will manage product for the intelligence and delivery engine behind Indeed. Matching decides which jobs reach which job seekers and which candidates reach which employers, across search, recommendations, and sourcing. Your customers are the product teams across Indeed that build on this engine. Through them, Matching serves millions of job seekers and employers every day.

You will oversee a product team of about 30 people through five direct reports. The team supports a product, engineering, and data science organization of about 350 people across the US, Canada, Japan, and India. Matching has the largest AI budget of any team at Indeed. The team owns:

• Retrieval
• Ranking
• Indexes
• The machine learning models that predict match quality
• The job seeker and employer data those models use
• The APIs, analytics, and debugging tools other teams use to build on it

Matching is moving from keyword search to AI-native retrieval and ranking:

• Embedding-based and multi-vector retrieval
• Semantic IDs
• LLM-based relevance
• A move from Lucene to vector search

You will set the strategy for that move and run the platform at high volume, high quality, low latency, and high reliability. You will run Matching as a platform, with clear APIs, documentation, service levels, and dashboards for the teams that depend on it. You will bring outside expertise, adapt it to how Indeed works, and align many internal partners across product, engineering, science, and the business.

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 17 years of related experience; or a minimum of 15 years with a Bachelor’s degree; or a minimum of 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with a minimum of 8 years experience.
• Deep experience with search, retrieval, and ranking systems at large scale, including embedding-based and multi-vector retrieval, learning to rank, and LLM-based relevance.
• Experience running a large machine learning or data platform as a product for internal or external customers, with APIs, documentation, service levels, and reliability targets.
• Experience managing and developing Product Management teams and senior product leaders through coaching and mentorship.
• Experience building, scaling, and operating customer-facing digital products and platforms at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering, design, science, and business teams to deliver complex product initiatives.
• Experience defining product strategy, prioritizing investments, and aligning execution to business outcomes.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments using data, experimentation, and product judgment to guide decisions.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, including experience presenting strategy, results, and recommendations to executive leadership.

Benefits

• Quarterly bonuses
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Paid Time Off policy
• Many region-specific benefits

Company Description

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*Comscore, Total Visits, March 2026)