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Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure

Nebius
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
Posted
12 days ago
Department
AS Product
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion spent on high-scale search or ranking systems
  • A background as an engineer, ML engineer, or researcher on a production system in search, feed ranking, or ad engines
  • Direct experience shipping a search or ranking change end to end
  • A strong data foundation to design experiments and evaluate results
  • Product judgment to decide what to build and defend it to engineers and customers
  • Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and retrieval in agentic workflows
Nice to have
  • Depth in information retrieval, NLP, or applied machine learning
  • Experience with index tiering, sharding, freshness pipelines, or cost-per-query optimisation at scale
  • Experience with hybrid retrieval, semantic and lexical search, re-ranking, or human evaluation programs
  • Experience in API-first or developer-platform businesses
  • Experience in a high-growth technology company, especially post-acquisition or startup environments
What the job really is

The Senior Product Manager for Search Infrastructure at Nebius will oversee the quality and direction of the search index used by AI agents. This role involves setting quality standards, managing trade-offs between depth, latency, and cost, and shaping the future of search infrastructure as it adapts to agent-based consumption. The position requires close collaboration with engineering, evaluation, and customer success teams to ensure the product meets user needs and expectations.

Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Career growth and learning opportunities
  • Flexibility and ownership
  • Collaborative and innovative culture
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
  • International environment and talented teams
Things to weigh
  • No salary listed
  • The role requires significant technical expertise and prior experience in high-scale systems, which may limit candidates without such backgrounds
  • The position involves navigating complex trade-offs in search quality, which may be challenging for those less experienced in product management
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