Senior Director, Product Management for Matching

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Day to Day

As the Senior Director of Product Management for Matching, you will manage product for the intelligence and delivery engine behind Indeed. Matching decides which jobs reach which job seekers and which candidates reach which employers, across search, recommendations, and sourcing. Your customers are the product teams across Indeed that build on this engine. Through them, Matching serves millions of job seekers and employers every day.

You will oversee a product team of about 30 people through five direct reports. The team supports a product, engineering, and data science organization of about 350 people across the US, Canada, Japan, and India. Matching has the largest AI budget of any team at Indeed. The team owns retrieval, ranking, indexes, the machine learning models that predict match quality, and the job seeker and employer data those models use. It also owns the APIs, analytics, and debugging tools other teams use to build on it.

Matching is moving from keyword search to AI-native retrieval and ranking: embedding-based and multi-vector retrieval, semantic IDs, LLM-based relevance, and a move from Lucene to vector search. You will set the strategy for that move and run the platform at high volume, high quality, low latency, and high reliability. You will run Matching as a platform, with clear APIs, documentation, service levels, and dashboards for the teams that depend on it. You will bring outside expertise, adapt it to how Indeed works, and align many internal partners across product, engineering, science, and the business.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product vision, strategy, and execution for a portfolio of products and experiences.

• Oversee and develop Product Management organizations while fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and customer focus.

• Build and prioritize product roadmaps using data, user research, experimentation, and business goals.

• Partner with engineering, design, science, and business teams to deliver scalable products and features that improve customer and business outcomes.

• Establish and monitor product and operational metrics to measure impact, guide decisions, and improve execution.

• Influence organizational priorities, investment decisions, and execution plans across cross-functional teams and executive leadership.

• Balance long-term strategic investments with rapid delivery to support evolving customer and business needs.

Skills/Competencies

• Requires a minimum of 17 years of related experience; or a minimum of 15 years with a Bachelor’s degree; or a minimum of 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with a minimum of 8 years experience.

• Deep experience with search, retrieval, and ranking systems at large scale, including embedding-based and multi-vector retrieval, learning to rank, and LLM-based relevance.

• Experience running a large machine learning or data platform as a product for internal or external customers, with APIs, documentation, service levels, and reliability targets.

• Experience managing and developing Product Management teams and senior product leaders through coaching and mentorship.

• Experience building, scaling, and operating customer-facing digital products and platforms at scale.

• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering, design, science, and business teams to deliver complex product initiatives.

• Experience defining product strategy, prioritizing investments, and aligning execution to business outcomes.

• Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments using data, experimentation, and product judgment to guide decisions.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, including experience presenting strategy, results, and recommendations to executive leadership.

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 - United States of America 215,000 - 323,000 USD per year

Tier 2 - United States of America 240,000 - 360,000 USD per year

Tier 3 - United States of America 263,000 - 395,000 USD per year

Tier 4 - United States of America N/A

Tier 5 - United States of America 298,000 - 448,000 USD per year

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The deadline to apply to this position is November 10, 2026. Job postings may be extended at the hiring team’s discretion based on applicant volume.

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