Head of Search, Ranking & AI Platforms

Priceline.com LLC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 196,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness coverage

Generous time off including PTO and a休

Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks per y

Retirement plans

Travel perks and discounts

ERGs and recognition programs

Job summary

Priceline is hiring a Group Product Manager for Search to own the front door end-to-end across hotels, flights, rental cars, and packages. You will lead PMs across three platform teams in Canada and India within our Product Operating Model, defining roadmaps, measurements, and AI-driven ranking decisions.

You will shape the search quality framework, drive experimentation, and collaborate with engineering to modernize the search form and experiences for global travelers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management, including 2+ years leading PMs.
• Experience owning a search, typeahead, or information retrieval product at scale (10M+ sessions).
• Shipped a model-driven ranking system with data, offline evaluation, and online experiments.
• Strong ability to measure search quality and define a quality framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Grow a Team of PMs: Coach and develop PMs, represent Search in portfolio forums and leadership reviews.
• Own the Search Roadmap: Set strategy and OKRs with data-backed prioritization.
• Improve typeahead, query understanding, and destination resolution across travel surfaces.
• Define and govern API contracts across product verticals to ensure backward-compatibility.
• Shape the natural language search strategy including embedding-based retrieval.
• Run high-cadence A/B testing with clear metrics and significance thresholds.

Skills

PM leadership

Search expert

AI/ML context

Experimentation leadership

Analytical mindset

Excellent communication

Customer focus

Ethical leadership

Tools

Solr

vector search

BM25

Looker

Job description

Priceline is hiring a Group Product Manager for Search to own the front door end-to-end across hotels, flights, rental cars, and packages. You will lead PMs across three platform teams in Canada and India within our Product Operating Model, defining roadmaps, measurements, and AI-driven ranking decisions.

You will shape the search quality framework, drive experimentation, and collaborate with engineering to modernize the search form and experiences for global travelers.