Product Manager-Product Knowledge

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We're looking for a Product Manager who thrives at the intersection of structured data, AI/ML, and search optimization—someone who can define the strategy, drive execution, and collaborate deeply with AI, data, and engineering teams to improve how millions of customers discover products.

In this high-agency, startup-like role, you'll own and scale the AI-driven product knowledge ecosystem, ensuring our taxonomy, ontology, and catalog data power better search, recommendations, and personalization experiences

What You'll Do

• Define & Implement Product Knowledge Strategy – Own the roadmap for taxonomy, ontology, structured data, and knowledge graph initiatives, aligning with AI/ML and Product teams.

•  Drive AI-Powered Taxonomy & Ontology Development – Partner with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to build, test, and scale ML-driven classification, entity resolution, and knowledge graph models.

•  Improve Search & Product Discovery – Ensure our structured product data directly improves search relevance, filtering, and recommendation algorithms.

•  Develop & Enforce Data Standards – Lead governance for taxonomy updates, structured metadata, and attribute standardization, ensuring a scalable and accurate catalog.

•  Enable LLMs for Product Knowledge – Work with AI teams to develop LLM-powered solutions for automated tagging, classification, and enrichment.

•  Measure & Iterate – Define metrics and evaluation frameworks to supervise the impact of structured data improvements on search, recommendations, and personalization.

•  Deeply Integrate with AI/ML Teams – Work hand-in-hand with AI, data science, and engineering to build scalable, automated solutions for product classification and catalog intelligence.

• Product Leadership in Data/AI – 2+ years in product management, ideally in eCommerce, search, recommendations, or AI-driven product knowledge systems.

• AI & Data Proficiency – Experience working with ML models, knowledge graphs, LLMs, and structured data strategies to drive business outcomes.

• Taxonomy & Ontology Expertise – Proven understanding of product classification, metadata structuring, and entity resolution techniques.

• Search & Discovery Focus – Experience optimizing product search, recommendations, and structured navigation.

• Technical Comfort – Familiarity with SQL, APIs, data pipelines, and AI/ML workflows.

• High-Agency – Startup-like attitude with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment, influence without authority, and deliver results fast.

• Strong Analytical & Communication Skills – Ability to translate data-driven insights into clear product strategies.

• Craft the AI-powered future of eCommerce product discovery.

• Be at the forefront of AI-driven taxonomy, ontology, and knowledge graph development.

• Work in a high-agency, startup-like culture where your decisions directly impact millions of users.

• Collaborate with ground breaking AI/ML teams to redefine structured data for eCommerce.

• Drive innovations that improve search, personalization, selling  and product discovery.

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