Lead Product Manager, Recommendations & Algorithms

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Principal / Lead Product Manager to lead our Algorithms & Discovery work stream. This product manager will partner with data science, ML and engineering to transform our core recommendation system, and additionally with designers and researchers to amplify personalization in the user-facing discovery experience. This domain critically impacts the effectiveness of our service at helping users find relationships, and is among the most interesting and societally impacting problem areas of any consumer product: who to recommend to daters, and how.

Responsibilities

• Craft the strategic vision and own, manage and execute the roadmap for new technologies, capabilities, features, and optimizations for the Discovery Team within the Core Experience Group.
• Lead the ideation, design, technical development and launch of innovative products.
• Partner closely with cross functional stakeholders, including but not limited to Data Science, Engineering, Design, Research, and Analytics leaders to build and deliver world-class products.
• Clearly communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across the organization from partner teams to executives.
• Define metrics and analyze test results to inform the success of products and features shipped.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager owning algorithm, data, or personalization products for consumer companies, driving strategy, roadmap, metrics and execution.
• Demonstrated track record of product execution and impactful feature delivery with the ability to lead and influence teams.
• Experience with technically complex modern data products, especially those powered by machine learning. Able to prioritize and partner on infrastructure investment projects that indirectly affect the user experience.
• Data-driven decision making. You have experience partnering with data scientists to design and interpret experiments, and using data to make decisions and inform priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication. Able to clearly communicate product strategy and requirements into specs and roadmaps, and speak to people at all levels and disciplines within the organization.
• Experience working directly with user research to define qualitative explorations and research roadmaps.
• Highly energetic and proactive with strong leadership and communication skills.
• Strong product sense and user empathy with familiarity with platform UI best practices.
• Enjoy making sense of chaos, continuously learning and working with a diverse group of builders, entrepreneurs, creators and all around great people.
• Entrepreneurial at heart, thrive in an ever evolving fast paced start-up environment and your passion is evident in your work.
• Natural ability to make things happen and get stuff done. You manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way.
• Collaborative team player with the ability to communicate effectively, persuade others and influence outcomes.
• Dependable and reliable with clear thinking and attention to detail.