Senior Technical Product Manager, Search

MaintainX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity opportunities

Health benefits

401(k) plan

PTO & flexible culture

Job summary

MaintainX, a leading AI-powered maintenance platform, seeks a Senior Technical Product Manager to own and evolve the core Search platform. You’ll work within the Product Foundations Group to deliver real-time, secure search experiences across applications, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design.

You’ll own an end-to-end search workflow, translate platform strategy into roadmaps, and help teams build faster with shared frameworks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience with ownership of platform or foundational capabilities used by multiple product teams.
• Direct search experience, AI-powered search is a strong plus.
• Strong technical fluency and comfort partnering with engineering on system design, tradeoffs, sequencing, and long-term maintainability.
• Deep curiosity and empathy for frontline users, grounded in real customer needs while building shared platforms.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, cross-team environments and turning loosely defined platform problems into clear strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes.
• Experience balancing early validation of user workflows and relevance with building durable foundations that scale across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the vision for a search platform that powers search experiences across MaintainX.
• Own and evolve core search capabilities including ingestion, indexing, relevance, query semantics, and reliability.
• Lead at least one end-to-end search workflow to stay closely connected to customer needs and real-world usage.
• Partner with Engineering and Design to make thoughtful architectural and sequencing decisions that balance speed and scalability.
• Enable product teams to build and iterate on search experiences faster through shared frameworks and tooling.
• Translate platform strategy and technical concepts into a clear roadmap.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure search experiences are performant, intuitive, and trustworthy for users.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

AI-powered search

System design collaboration

Roadmapping

Pattern recognition

Job description

MaintainX is the world's leading AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform, serving 14,000+ customers including Duracell, Shell, Cintas, and Brenntag. We raised $150M in Series D funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing our total funding to $254M. We were named to the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. We're growing fast and hiring the talent to match.

MaintainX is the world's leading AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform, serving 13,000+ customers including Duracell, Shell, Cintas, and Brenntag. We raised $150M in Series D funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing our total funding to $254M. We were named to the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.

We're growing fast and hiring the Product talent to match.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the evolution of MaintainX’s core Search platform. This role sits within our Product Foundations Group and is focused on building a unified, real-time, and secure search platform that powers search experiences across all of our applications. You’ll help teams deliver fast, reliable, and relevant search without reinventing ingestion pipelines, indexing strategies, query semantics, or operational runbooks each time.

In addition to Search platform ownership, this role will own at least one end-to-end search workflow within the product, ensuring a deep understanding of real customer use cases and grounding platform decisions in user needs. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design partners to define the long‑term vision, deliver foundational capabilities, and enable teams across MaintainX to build great search experiences at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Define and execute the vision for a search platform that powers search experiences across MaintainX.
• Own and evolve core search capabilities including ingestion, indexing, relevance, query semantics, and reliability.
• Lead at least one end‑to‑end search workflow to stay closely connected to customer needs and real‑world usage.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design to make thoughtful architectural and sequencing decisions that balance speed and scalability.
• Enable product teams to build and iterate on search experiences faster through shared frameworks and tooling.
• Translate platform strategy and technical concepts into a clear roadmap.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to ensure search experiences are performant, intuitive, and trustworthy for users.

About You

• 6+ years of product management experience, including ownership of platform or foundational capabilities used by multiple product teams.
• Direct search experience (AI‑powered search is a strong plus).
• Strong technical fluency and comfort partnering closely with Engineering on system design, tradeoffs, sequencing, and long‑term maintainability.
• Deep curiosity and empathy for frontline users, with a track record of staying grounded in real customer needs while building shared platforms and abstractions.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, cross‑team environments and turning loosely defined platform problems into clear strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes, with strong alignment across Engineering, Product, and Design partners.
• Experience balancing early validation of user workflows and relevance with building durable foundations that scale across teams and use cases.
• Strong pattern recognition, with the ability to apply existing solutions to MaintainX specific problems, without reinventing the wheel.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities.
• Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program.
• Take‑what‑you‑need PTO and flexible work culture.
• A mission‑driven company supported by a collaborative, humble, and smart team environment where merit and effort are celebrated.
• The opportunity to shape a new product line that expands MaintainX’s reach to millions of frontline workers globally.

About Us

Our mission is to make the lives of blue‑collar workers easier worldwide by creating software that meets their needs and realities. Our product is truly life‑changing for 80% of the workforce that doesn’t work behind a desk and needs enterprise‑grade software at their fingertips.

MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Our mission is to deliver one platform for maintenance, repair & operations teams to keep the physical world running. We believe the greatest asset in any organization is the people. That’s why we built an intuitive, mobile‑first solution to help boost productivity and collaboration across teams and locations.

MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.