Senior Product Manager, Search Infrastructure
Job description
Senior individual-contributor product manager role at Tavily (part of Nebius) owning the search infrastructure behind the web access layer for AI agents. The role sets quality bars, release criteria and index direction for a large-scale search index used by developers and enterprises.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- 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, working closely with the evaluation team on what to measure and why.
- Own the depth, latency, and cost tradeoffs across search products, and make them explicit and defensible.
- Shape the direction of the 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 become the main consumer, and turn that into a roadmap.
- Know how the company compares 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 results fall short in real workflows, and turn that into quality priorities.
- Partner with the data and vertical product owners on what the corpus needs to contain and how results should be shaped per industry.
What we're looking for
- 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: can design an experiment, read eval results critically, and tell a real quality improvement from noise.
- Product judgment to match the technical depth: 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.
- 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 optimisation 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.
Your team
Tavily product team
Tavily, part of Nebius, is the web access layer for AI agents; the product team is small and works day to day with search engineering, research, evaluation and customer success teams.
Benefits
- 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
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About Nebius
Leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy
Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform supporting developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment. Built by engineers, for engineers, it owns hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI, from large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel.
Mission
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.
Key facts
- 1,500+
- Amsterdam
- AI cloud infrastructure
- Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS)
- Global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel
- Team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D
- Tavily, part of Nebius, is the web access layer for AI agents
- Over two million developers use Tavily
- Tavily customers include Fortune 500 companies running agents in production
What they value
- Fast moving
- Bold thinking
- Constant growth
- Meaningful impact
- Trust and real ownership
- Opportunity to shape the future of AI