Product Manager - Search

Description:

At CV-Library we have a clear vision, we want to help the world to work by matching job seekers and businesses on the global platform they need to succeed.
Our mission is also clear for all our team, we help people find jobs and develop their careers and we help businesses find the talent they need to succeed. This also applies to our own businesses within the CV-Library group too!
We ensure that every piece of work we do at CV-Library ensures we can achieve this, it makes us who we are! We have a fun and vibrant culture where results are expected, recognised, and rewarded. Our people make us who we are, we also happen to be a very talented bunch!
We are looking for an experienced technical Product Manager that focuses on Search and Ranking strategy and delivery, to grow and act as captain of the cross-functional Search squad that is responsible for our on-site search capabilities in terms of matching, ranking and search user experience.
What your day will look like:
* Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify, and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
* Enhance our websites' organic search performance by experimenting with and implementing effective Matching and Ranking techniques and best practices.
* Analyse data and conduct comprehensive research, competitor analysis, and industry trends evaluation to identify opportunities for improvement and to help product management make better-informed decisions.
* Developing roadmaps for Search and Ranking that executes on delivering short term value and is designed to strategically scale our Search product for future growth.
* Work closely with developers to address technical issues that might impact the search engine matching, ranking, and indexing.
* Work with Product Owners to refine the Product Backlog in line with the expected outcomes.
* Prioritise the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions.
* Be responsible for delivery stages and ensure that all risks (e.g. regulatory requirements, compliance, security, architecture) are identified and addressed.
* Focus on understanding the friction points in the user journey and work with user research to confirm and validate with prototypes, user feedback and experimentation.
* Take a data driven approach for measuring effectiveness of new features and establish improvement areas.
* You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, customers, and key executives, through your use of data and thought process.
Requirements
* Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management.
* Experience working on onsite search or similar area strongly preferred.
* Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in search engines, software development and web technologies.
* Experience with common data science principles and methods (or suitable similar experience) in the context of search ranking/information retrieval.
* Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done.
* Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to difficult problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, trade-offs and to lay out proposals in a well-structured, data-informed narrative.
* Experience of having worked in end-to-end discovery and solution delivery with stringent recovery, availability, operability & resiliency requirements.
* Decision making skills.
* Strong analytical skills (e.g. extracting deep insights from experiment outcomes and breaking problems into manageable pieces)
* Proactive in identifying the need for change and proposing solutions that are innovative and make the difference in improving our IT software delivery or engineering processes.
* You can understand and challenge Business and Technical Requirements
* You understand solution design and can explain to non-technical customers.
Benefits
At CV-Library, we are a team. We welcome the best talent to work for us, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability (visible or non-visible).
We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements