Senior Product Manager, Search

Senior Product Manager, Search

Location: Seattle, Wa

Contract: Full Time

Workstation: Remote/Hybrid

Who You Are:

​​The Search and Content Discovery team enables customers to efficiently find the right content for their projects. Whether users have a specific need or require guidance through recommendations, this team ensures a seamless and effective discovery experience. 

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​The Senior Product Manager, Search and Content Discoveryplays a critical role in optimizing search relevance and personalization across a global, localized search platform. This role is responsible for improving content discovery for a library of over 400 million images and videos, ensuring diverse and inclusive results tailored to customers' needs. 

Your Next Challenge:

• Lead the long-term search and discovery strategy, focusing on making visual content more discoverable through AI/ML, algorithms, and recommendations 

• Align search capabilities with company objectives through partnerships with business, research, and engineering stakeholders 

• Stay ahead of industry trends in search, AI, and natural language processing to drive innovation

• Align search capabilities with overall company objectives by working closely with marketing, UX, and business stakeholders

• Drive the product roadmap for search experiences, balancing quick wins with long-term infrastructure improvements. 

• Define and prioritize features that enhance relevance, ranking, and personalization. 

• Partner with engineering to optimize search infrastructure, indexing, and query performance 

• Define and track KPIs that measure search effectiveness and business impact 

• Lead experimentation through A/B testing to validate hypotheses and drive improvements 

• Analyze search patterns, user behavior, and customer feedback to identify optimization opportunities 

• Transform data insights into actionable product improvements 

• Collaborate with customer support and research to identify and address recurring search challenges 

• Partner with content and merchandising teams to optimize for different user intents 

• Lead cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, design, and research 

• Mentor junior team members and foster strong product management practices 

• Develop and iterate on team processes to improve execution efficiency 

What You'll Need:

• 7+ years of Product Management experience on a team focused on search relevance, recommendations, and/or personalization 
• Relevant experience in building and shipping products in an iterative test-and-learn environment together with teams of engineers, data scientists, designers, and customer researchers, resulting in significant business impact 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. This includes demonstrated ability to clearly articulate ideas, influence stakeholders, and facilitate effective collaboration within the team 
• Proficiency in data analysis, interpretation of metrics, and the ability to derive actionable insights from user behavior data
• A firm grasp of product management fundamentals, including how to understand customer needs, prioritize a roadmap that considers customer and business needs, iterating to validate hypotheses, and identifying and measuring the appropriate metrics
• Experience leading empowered cross-functional teams to positively impact business outcomes 
• Effective stakeholder management, including executives, marketing, sales, and other relevant stakeholders to align on goals, priorities, and progress 

Nice to Have:

• Bonus point for experience launching and optimizing Natural Language Search and Visual Search

The Product team identifies the most meaningful customer problems to solve and opportunities to tackle, and then works collaboratively across business functions to identify, test, and launch the right solutions against those priorities—ultimately making it easier for our customers to find, attain, and use our amazing content. 

There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame. 

We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world. 

Working at Getty Images 

Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals. 

We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work. Our flexible time off policy is above industry standard. We offer premier benefits with options including above-market competitive medical, dental, vision, health plan savings accounts, life and disability plans, global employee assistance programs, legal, pet, home, and auto coverage at preferential group rates and discounts, as well as retirement and financial education and tools. Full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week are eligible for these programs and health benefits on the 1st of the month following their date of hire.  

Getty Images Holdings, Inc is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market. 

Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours. 

Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal-opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.