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Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure

Nebius
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted
12 days ago
Department
AS Product
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of product management experience, with a focus on high-scale search or ranking systems
  • Background as an engineer, ML engineer, or researcher on a production system in search or ranking
  • Direct experience shipping a search or ranking change end to end
  • Strong data foundation to design experiments and evaluate results
  • Product judgment to make and defend build decisions
  • Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and retrieval 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

As a Senior Product Manager for Search Infrastructure at Nebius, you will own the search product infrastructure, setting quality standards and release criteria while collaborating closely with engineering and evaluation teams. Your role involves shaping the direction of the search index, understanding customer needs, and making trade-offs between depth, latency, and cost. You will also be responsible for influencing the future of search infrastructure as AI agents become the primary consumers.

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
  • Role requires a strong technical background and experience at scale
  • Expectations for the first year are high, including setting quality bars and influencing product direction
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