Principal Product Manager, Search

People come to LTK to shop millions of products tried and styled by real people. LTK connects people/shoppers with Creators who match their personal style and get inspired everyday. Hundreds of thousands of Creators across social media and blogs use LTK to turn their hobbies and passions into entrepreneurship and help support their dreams and families financially. Our mission at LTK is to make world’s lifestyle creators achieve maximum economic success. In your role, you will be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes LTK forward. You will grow as a person and a leader in your field, all the while helping Creators and their followers connect and instantly shop in the most inspiring way. 

We’re looking for an empathetic, curious, and visionary Principal Product Manager to join the Search team. Search spans multiple ecosystems at LTK - shoppers finding what they are looking for and Creators finding Brands and products to add to their posts. For Shoppers - Search is a core surface within the LTK app used by shoppers to find what they’re seeking and discover new creators and their content. For Creators - Search surface within the Creator app enables creators to find brands, retailers and products they want to add to their posts and earn commission on. In this role, working closely with designers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists, you’ll play an important role in reimagining Search across both Shopper and Creator ecosystems, built on a robust understanding of our content, and a unique picture of each person’s needs and preferences. 

What you’ll do:

• Provide thought leadership and an inspiring vision for Search across LTK and Creator app and deliver in a fast paced environment. 
• Help Shoppers and Creators narrow down what they’re looking for and discover what’s possible
• Enable Shoppers and Creators to feel seen and heard by reflecting our understanding of them in the Search experience and providing them a platform to tell us more about their diverse needs
• Tailor Search experiences to the unique aspects of different interest areas and customer segments
• Make Search a more diverse and inclusive space to incorporate skin tone, hair pattern, and other in development signals
• Amplify and empower partners across LTK with foundational understanding of content
• In this role you will partner closely with cross functional teams including engineering, design, researchers, content/ creator teams, foundations, AI/ML engineers and data scientists
• Drive product requirements definition, product planning and product design (including writing PRDs) of new features and enhancements

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager or related role (ex. Software Engineer)
• 4+ years of experience as a Search Product Manager or related role (ex. Data Scientist) 
• Experience driving consumer-facing features at scale from ideation to delivery
• Deep empathy for customers grounded in data and research
• Inquisitiveness to learn new domains and systematically work through ambiguity and competing concerns with your team
• Ability to manage and prioritize within a portfolio of projects across Shopper and Creator ecosystems that build on each other to create a coherent system
• Ability to understand and balance the needs of multiple downstream stakeholders in helping to magnify their efforts
• Experience with complex systems that combine human knowledge and algorithms to connect content to customers
• Experience with AI applied to solve concrete user problems and/or to help users discover relevant information, while also keeping up to date with latest AI/ML technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior marketplace and content experience
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with and understand technical subjects and emerging technologies and their relevance to LTK
• Ability to manage and lead across highly cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences at executive level
• BS/BA degree in a technology related field OR equivalent experience

Skills:

• Product Management
• Artificial Intelligence
• Search interfaces
• Mobile Interfaces