Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager for Search Infrastructure to join Nebius, a leading cloud infrastructure company for the global AI economy. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of AI-driven search solutions in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

About Nebius

Nebius is at the forefront of cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software, and AI R&D.

The Role

As part of Tavily, a Nebius company, you will be the owner of our search infrastructure as a product. You will set the quality bar for our search products, shape the direction of our index, and build a point of view on where search infrastructure is heading as agents, rather than people, become the main consumer.

Responsibilities

• Set the quality bar and release criteria for search: what good means per use case, and what a change has to clear before it ships.
• Own the depth, latency, and cost tradeoffs across our search products, and make them explicit and defensible.
• Shape the direction of our index: what it needs to cover, how fresh it needs to be, and what quality bar it has to meet.
• Build a point of view on where search infrastructure is going as agents, rather than people, become the main consumer, and turn that into a roadmap.
• Know how we compare to the alternatives customers evaluate, and drive the work that closes the gaps that matter.
• Work with customer success and directly with customers to understand where our results fall short in real workflows, and turn that into quality priorities.
• Partner with the data and vertical product owners on what our corpus needs to contain and how results should be shaped per industry.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion spent on high-scale search or ranking systems: web search, feed ranking at a large social platform, or a large ad engine.
• A background as an engineer, ML engineer, or researcher on a production system in one of those areas.
• Direct experience shipping a search or ranking change end to end, including how it was evaluated and what happened after it shipped.
• A strong data foundation: you can design an experiment, read eval results critically, and tell a real quality improvement from noise.
• Product judgment to match the technical depth: you can decide what to build and what to leave, and defend it to both engineers and customers.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and how retrieval fits into agentic workflows.
• Comfort with ambiguity, moving between strategy and execution without losing the thread.
• The ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.

Nice to Have

• Depth in information retrieval, NLP, or applied machine learning beyond what the role requires.
• Experience with index tiering, sharding, freshness pipelines, or cost-per-query optimization at scale.
• Experience with hybrid retrieval, semantic and lexical search, re-ranking, or human evaluation programs.
• Experience in API-first or developer-platform businesses running both self-serve and enterprise motions.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company, especially post-acquisition or startup-within-a-larger-org environments.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

About the Company

At Nebius, we are fast-moving, bold thinkers with a constant drive for growth and meaningful impact. We trust and empower our employees to shape the future of AI. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

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Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure