Senior Technical Program Manager - Search
Search, Recommendations & Product Knowledge
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs across Search, Recommendations, and Product Knowledge. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Analytics to shape direction, align stakeholders, and drive execution on high-priority initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead large, cross-functional programs across Search, Recommendations, and Product Knowledge from concept through launch.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to shape roadmaps, clarify tradeoffs, and align work to customer and business priorities.
- Focus teams on the highest-value work by driving prioritization as business needs, timing, or capacity shifts.
- Drive execution across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, and partner teams to manage dependencies, surface risks, and maintain momentum.
- Drive ambiguous problems toward clear decisions, actionable plans, and strong execution rhythms.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve scalability, reliability, and operational readiness across the systems behind buyer discovery.
- Define and track success metrics across customer experience, adoption, quality, and operational performance.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of technical program management experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs end to end.
- A strong track record of driving large programs or portfolios across multiple teams, systems, and planning cycles.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influence skills, including the ability to align senior partners and navigate competing priorities without direct authority.
- Strong prioritization, planning, dependency management, and risk management skills.
- The ability to move comfortably between technical discussions with engineers and strategic conversations with cross-functional leaders.
- Experience delivering customer-facing products and/or platform capabilities in search, recommendations, personalization, knowledge systems, catalog, data, ML, or similarly complex technical domains.
- Strong communication skills, sound judgment, and a calm, structured approach in ambiguous environments.
