Beacon · 13 hours ago
Senior Product Manager, Search
Houston, TX, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expBeacon is a fast-growing, product-led B2B platform that connects professional buyers with an extensive catalog of specialty products. The Senior Product Manager, Search will be responsible for improving how users find the right products by shaping strategy, defining the roadmap, and shipping features that enhance relevance and conversion.
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Responsibilities
Own the search strategy, OKRs, and roadmap (query understanding, ranking, recall/precision, and latency)
Translate user and business needs into clear PRDs, specs, and experiments; prioritize ruthlessly
Drive relevance improvements: signals, scoring features, boosting, synonym/typo handling, and zero-result mitigation
Evolve information architecture: categories, taxonomies, attributes, facets, and structured data quality
Partner with engineering to advance the search stack (e.g., Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr, vector/semantic search, embeddings, re-ranking)
Design and interpret A/B tests; monitor metrics such as search success rate, CTR, add-to-cart, conversion, reformulation rate, and time-to-find
Collaborate with design on intuitive search UX: autosuggest, query builder, result layouts, filters, saved searches, and recent activity
Work with data teams on ingestion, deduplication, enrichment, and freshness SLAs; improve crawl/ingest pipelines
Establish operational playbooks: relevance tuning cadences, quality audits, and incident response for search outages
Communicate outcomes and insights to stakeholders; champion a discovery-driven, experiment-first culture
Qualification
Required
5–8+ years in Product Management with meaningful ownership of search, discovery, or recommendations in a data-rich product
Proven delivery of measurable relevance and conversion improvements via experimentation
Strong quantitative skills; comfortable with dashboards and SQL to self-serve insights
Experience partnering with search/relevance engineers and data scientists (signals, features, embeddings, re-rankers)
Familiarity with enterprise search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene) and modern experimentation/analytics tools
Excellent product sense and UX instincts; ability to turn ambiguous problems into simple, effective experiences
Clear, concise communicator who can align cross-functional teams and influence at multiple levels
Preferred
Exposure to vector databases/ANN, semantic search, LLM-powered retrieval/rewrites, or learning-to-rank
Background in marketplace, catalog, or multi-attribute product search
Experience improving data quality (attributes, taxonomy, normalization) at scale
Benefits
Competitive salary
Bonus program
Comprehensive health coverage
Retirement plan
Generous PTO
Flexible work arrangements
Company
Beacon
Beacon is the talent solution provider for the modern era, on a mission to change the way that companies hire.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
David Berk
Co-Founder & CEO
Juney H.
Co-founder & Executive Chairman
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