About this role

The Discovery pillar’s core mission is to make it easy and delightful for retailers to find brands and products their customers will love. This role will own product development of our algorithms powering search, the largest discovery surface by order volume.

What you’ll do 

• Develop and execute on a strategy that takes our search algorithms to the next level
• Refine our breakdown of key search query segments, identify novel opportunities for improvements, and diagnose root causes for today’s failure modes 
• Refine our suite of offline and online metrics to help us better understand the retailer’s search experience and the performance of each component of our search system
• Evaluate tradeoffs between technical solutions across velocity, scale, cost, build/buy, and modularity   
• Work with and learn from a broad range of world-class leaders across engineering, product management, data science, design, and operations
• Make decisions alongside company founders and the CEO 
• Empower small businesses around the world to chase their dreams and invest in their local communities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• You have 4+ years of experience in product at a high-growth tech startup or as a startup founder.
• You have experience building high-scale products through state-of-the-art engineering and data science, in close partnership with technical functions.  
• You regularly use ML/AI to solve business problems and are well-versed with recent advancements in the field. Bonus: you’ve worked on search before
• You’re an extraordinarily fast learner. You have the natural curiosity and intellectual horsepower to deeply understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time.
• You are relentlessly resourceful. When something needs to get done, you always find a way to make it happen. Even when the work is hard, you power through it and execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• You are a creative problem-solver. You excel at identifying unintuitive solutions to tough problems.
• You are passionate. You are optimistic with a positive energy that other people draw upon.
• You care deeply about developing products and solutions that will create the best experience for our customers.

Salary Range

New York City: the pay range for this role is $174,000-239.500 per year. 

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.