Director of Product - Search

The Director of Product at Reddit will be responsible for owning the vision, strategy, planning, and execution of the search product roadmap. They will collaborate with executives, engineers, and feature teams to enhance the search experience on Reddit. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills and deep subject matter expertise to help develop a trusted tool for exploring and understanding Reddit's vast user-submitted content. This role offers a great opportunity to shape and improve the foundational search product at Reddit.

Develop and promote a vision for search that goes beyond information retrieval to power discovery and exploration of Reddit’s huge corpus of user submitted content

Partner with internal groups (Execs, Data Science, Research, other PMs/Feature teams, etc) to understand search product needs and prioritize requirements for the search development team

Develop a comprehensive product strategy for our search team to build toward satisfying our users and supporting front-end feature product groups

Define team goals and success metrics for new search projects to ensure we are tracking towards improvements that align with Reddit’s wider business objectives

Evaluate current product performance and identify opportunities for improvement

Generate excitement and understanding around Reddit search product improvements

5-7+ years of experience working as a product manager, especially in a technical, computational, or infrastructural group

Deep experience working on Search Relevance systems, as well as, understanding of state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques to improve Search.

Exceptional project management and organization skills, with meticulous attention to detail

Strong customer empathy and effective in collaborating cross-functionally

Ability to communicate clearly about complex technical solutions and relating them to business results

Track record of developing and growing high performing teams

Experience making product and strategic decisions based on A/B testing

Analytical background with a track record delivering high impact product launches

Passion about Reddit and how we can make it better

Previous experience with Solr, ElasticSearch, and/or Lucene

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off