Product Lead, Personalization & Discovery

Faire; Carlsbad (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Product Manager to own Personalization end-to-end, collaborating with ML engineers to optimize recommendation and ranking systems across retailer-facing surfaces. You will define a strategic roadmap, balance cross-functional priorities, and drive measurable impact for sellers and the business.

The role starts with ownership of Personalization and will expand to lead the broader area, including hiring a second PM.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including senior IC or Staff-level ownership of a technical product area.
• Direct experience shipping recommendation, ranking, or personalization systems.
• Strong business judgment, with a track record of making tough prioritization calls across multiple stakeholder teams in order to deliver on ambitious goals.
• Experience splitting execution responsibility with partner teams on shared goals — defining who owns what and aligning roadmaps.
• Prior people-management experience is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own Personalization's roadmap and strategy end-to-end — the recommendation and ranking systems that power discovery across every surface retailers use.
• Build a deep understanding of retailer needs, discovery behaviors, and marketplace dynamics, and use qualitative and quantitative research to surface high-impact opportunities and frame problem statements the team can act on.
• Partner directly with ML engineers on model and system tradeoffs and improvements.
• Co-create roadmaps with data science, engineering, and other product partners so algo work and engineering work are sequenced together to deliver customer and business impact.
• Prioritize across the many collaboration and impact opportunities other teams bring to Personalization.
• Be directly accountable for ambitious goals that get visibility at the highest levels of the company.
• Build credibility with senior leadership as an expert on the company's business and how the algorithms behind it impact our customers and business.
• Serve as a go-to product leader for ambiguous, high-stakes problems in Discovery algorithms space.
• Raise the bar on how our product and data science teams work together, especially as AI reshapes how that partnership operates day to day.
• Build the case for how Personalization's scope should split, then help hire and onboard a second PM to share it.

Skills

8+ years PM experience

Personalization systems

Roadmap ownership

Business judgment

Cross-team collaboration

People management

Job description

Faire is seeking a Product Manager to own Personalization end-to-end, collaborating with ML engineers to optimize recommendation and ranking systems across retailer-facing surfaces. You will define a strategic roadmap, balance cross-functional priorities, and drive measurable impact for sellers and the business.

The role starts with ownership of Personalization and will expand to lead the broader area, including hiring a second PM.