Lead Product Manager, Search & recommendation

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Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Role 

We are seeking a highly consumer first, analytical, experienced Lead Product Manager to lead Search discovery experience as a core problem statement across Grab’s Food Deliveries and Dining Out products. 

The vision for this charter and role will be to take a robust search experience and step-change its experience, relevance, personalisation and efficiency to deliver outstanding consumer search experience and strong business outcomes

In this role, you will be the driving force behind improving the end-to-end user discovery experience, optimization of our search stack, advancing our ML-driven ranking and retrieval to unlock incremental order volume and delight our users. 

This role requires a blend of technical depth in search systems, connecting consumer problems to technical solutions, and the leadership skills to align cross-functional teams based in Beijing and Singapore. Critical tasks you will perform will include,

• End-to-End Ownership of search discovery experience roadmap for our Food deliveries, Dining out products

• Build best in class Search Discovery, upgrading the user discovery experience, search relevance, personalisation resulting in increased conversion

• Partner with Data Science & ML Engineering to evolve the models and signals that power search algorithms and personalization. Translate model improvements into measurable consumer and business outcomes.

• Cross-Border Leadership - Drive the product strategy and execution for search acting as a bridge between our tech hubs in Beijing and Singapore, and business and product stakeholders in the region.

What Skills we are looking for

• Experience: 5-8 years of product management experience (or equivalent), with a proven track record of owning high-scale systems (e.g., search, recommendations, marketplaces).

• Search Depth: Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes in at least two of the following areas: information retrieval, search ranking/optimization models, query understanding/NLP, search UI/UX, or complex experimentation.

• Strong Product + Quant Orientation: Comfort shaping strategy using data, designing rigorous experiments, and making high-stakes trade-offs across conversion, relevance, and marketplace health.

• Technical Communication: Capacity to convey complex concepts - such as ranking logic, relevance algorithms, or system architecture changes - to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

Global Collaboration: Experience working with distributed teams across different geographies; English is our primary working language.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.