[Hiring] Staff Product Manager @Constructor

Role Description

We’re looking for a systems-minded Staff Product Manager to take Constructor’s search and discovery to the state of the art — and keep it there — across every retail industry we serve. This is a highly technical, high-leverage role at the core of our Product Discovery Engine chapter: the teams responsible for how we retrieve, understand, and rank the right products for every shopper, on every query, for every customer.

• Own business impact, not features.
• Drive measurable lift in search-attributed conversion, revenue per visit, and GMV alongside relevance across our customer base.
• Deliver across every retail industry.
• Move quality and business metrics across all the verticals we serve, accounting for the differences in catalog, language, and shopper intent.
• Keep us at the state of the art.
• Continuously translate the latest ML / IR research and competitive moves into production wins, and ship SOTA ML / LLM-assisted capabilities that beat our previous best on relevance.
• Set chapter vision and strategy.
• Define the multi-quarter direction for the Product Discovery Engine — where we’re heading and why — tie it directly to customer business outcomes, and rally teams behind it.
• Lead Search Quality first.
• Own its strategy and roadmap, driving measurable improvements in the relevance and correctness of results.
• Orchestrate across the pipeline.
• Unify recall, ranking, query understanding, and personalization behind one definition of quality and one set of business metrics, so improvements compound instead of colliding.
• Turn ML research into production wins.
• Partner deeply with ML and data science to take models — from candidate generation and recall to LLM-assisted interpretation — from idea to production, balancing accuracy, latency, and cost.
• Make quality measurable and explainable.
• Build the metrics, evaluation frameworks, and tooling the whole chapter uses to measure, attribute, and explain discovery quality and its business impact.
• Own quality under pressure.
• Lead investigation and triage when issues arise, and design durable, systemic fixes rather than one-off patches.
• Grow the mandate.
• Expand into chapter-wide leadership spanning ML Recall, ML Infra, and — over time — teams like CORE, SABR, and Catalog Management.

Qualifications

• Extensive product management experience (typically 8+ years) in search, discovery, ML, or NLP-heavy products, including time operating at a senior or staff level.
• A track record of moving business metrics at scale — conversion, revenue, engagement — not just shipping features, and of setting strategy across multiple teams.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end search pipeline: query interpretation → recall / candidate generation → ranking → reranking → personalization → delivery.
• Strong ML product depth — owning production models and reasoning about tradeoffs between high-capacity (LLM / batch) and low-latency (real-time) approaches — and a habit of staying current with state-of-the-art research.
• Fluency with retrieval and recall, query understanding (tokenization, synonyms, spelling correction, multilingual support), and search evaluation frameworks.
• A rigorous, measurement-first mindset that ties every quality investment back to business outcomes.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership — able to align teams with different goals behind a shared definition of quality and a shared set of business metrics, working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, data science, and ML Ops.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, setting direction where none exists yet, and leading through clarity and credibility rather than the org chart.

Requirements

• Driven measurable lift in search-attributed conversion and revenue per visit — moving business metrics, not just quality metrics.
• Driven measurable business-metric lift (conversion, revenue per visit, GMV) and relevance lift across every major retail vertical we serve.
• Shipped at least one state-of-the-art ML / LLM-assisted capability into production that beats our previous best on relevance.
• Won head-to-head quality benchmarks against every major competitor in the verticals we compete in, with a repeatable, defensible methodology.
• Taken core quality metrics to best-in-class levels and kept them improving quarter over quarter.
• Stood up an evaluation framework and tooling that ties model and system investments directly to customer business outcomes.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time — we strongly encourage all of our employees to take at least 3 weeks per year.
• A competitive compensation package including stock options.
• Company-sponsored US health coverage (100% paid for employee).
• Fully remote team — choose where you live.
• Work-from-home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office.
• Apple laptops provided for new employees.
• Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year.
• Parental leave for qualified employees.
• Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact.
• This position is fully remote — Constructor.io is a remote-first company.