Lead Product Manager – ML-Driven Recommendations

Scribd, Inc.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis­

Mental health support and disability"

Generous paid time off, including vaca

Paid parental leave and family support

Retirement matching and equity

Learning and development programs

Wellness and home office stipends

Complimentary access to the Scribd,,s

Enterprise access to leading AI tools

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Lead Product Manager for Recommendations to own our recommendations experience, serving hundreds of millions of monthly visitors across a corpus of 300 million documents.

You’ll work at the intersection of ML and product to surface the right content to the right person at the right time. Success means defining a compelling vision, crafting impactful metrics, and running experiments to deliver breakthrough features that redefine discovery, in close partnership with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading recommendations or search products in a high-traffic consumer environment.
• Demonstrated success shipping ML-driven features that moved core business metrics (engagement, conversion, or revenue) at scale.
• Deep familiarity with retrieval and ranking algorithms, embeddings, and feature stores, and ability to reason about end-to-end journeys.

Responsibilities

• Chart the long-term recommendations strategy with a multi-year roadmap across candidate generation, ranking and results presentation.
• Partner with ML Engineering & Applied Research to translate research into production systems blending signals and embeddings.
• Define metrics that matter and monitor leading indicators of engagement, click-through, completion, and conversions.
• Balance short-term wins with long-term vision, shipping improvements aligned with Scribd's AI strategy.
• Fuse data with customer voice through experiments, analytics, and user interviews to inform prioritization.
• Communicate requirements and timelines clearly to product, engineering, design, content, and executives.

Skills

Product management

ML-driven features

Retrieval and ranking

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

User-centered thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Lead Product Manager for Recommendations to own our recommendations experience, serving hundreds of millions of monthly visitors across a corpus of 300 million documents.

You’ll work at the intersection of ML and product to surface the right content to the right person at the right time. Success means defining a compelling vision, crafting impactful metrics, and running experiments to deliver breakthrough features that redefine discovery, in close partnership with