Senior Product Manager - Search Experience

OEC provides software solutions to the automotive parts and repair industry, seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Search Experience. The role involves owning the product roadmap for PartsTech's core search platform, collaborating with various teams to drive product execution and enhance user experience through AI/ML-driven improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product roadmap for PartsTech's core search and results experience, including search flyout, search history, vehicle lookup, filters, product details, diagrams, brand preferences, and related search surfaces
• Work with leadership to establish the product vision and strategy for the Search product squad
• Implement OKRs and success metrics, maintaining a measurement first culture
• Develop and manages A/B experiments to improve key search metrics including conversion rate, GMV lift, and user satisfaction, applying rigorous analysis to validate or challenge hypotheses before scaling
• Lead shop facing search UX and frontend product delivery, partnering directly with product design as well as frontend and backend engineers to design, sequence, and ship new features
• Own supplier facing merchandising tooling, including carousels, featured information, brand preferences, and related supplier driven experiences
• Own search indexing and drives ranking, relevance, and recommendation engine optimizations in partnership with OEC's Data Science and Applied AI teams
• Perform discovery with customers and stakeholders to understand marketplace needs and identify product opportunities, using both qualitative user research and quantitative data to prioritize, validate, and drive product decisions
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to enable sales, implementation, and go-to-market execution for new search initiatives. Presents product updates, roadmap strategies, and performance metrics to multi departmental stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across the organization
• Drive end-to-end product execution by writing clear PRDs and high-quality user stories with thoughtful acceptance criteria, maintaining a prioritized product backlog, leading trade-off discussions with key partners, and hosting development ceremonies to keep the Search squad aligned and moving forward

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required, with a focus in Economics, STEM concentration, or related analytical discipline. In the absence of a degree, equivalent work experience directly related to the key responsibilities of the role will be considered as a substitute for the degree
• At least 5 years of experience in search product management
• Prior experience in dedicated search, discovery, or related role within B2B marketplaces or e-commerce
• Direct experience shipping search or discovery products in a marketplace or e-commerce context with accountability for search conversion metrics and demonstrable GMV or revenue impact
• Hands on experience with search backend systems including indexing strategy, query processing, retrieval architectures, or search engine platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)
• Demonstrated experience working with data science and Applied AI/ML teams
• A proven track record owning product delivery in both customer facing search experiences and internal/admin/merchandising tooling surfaces
• Significant experience using both qualitative user research and quantitative data to identify areas of opportunity and inform prioritization
• Experience collaborating with product marketing to develop and execute go-to-market strategies
• Ability to design and manage A/B experiments to optimize search or discovery metrics, with a bias toward measurement and instrumentation
• Comfortable working with product analytics tools (ex. Segment, Pendo, Sigma)
• Can effectively coordinate cross-team integration work and manage dependencies across multiple squads
• Strong business acumen, with an ability to articulate the value of search improvements in terms of revenue impact, customer retention, and competitive differentiation
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and confident presenting product updates and strategy to technology and business leaders
• Master's degree in business, Economics, STEM, or a related analytical discipline preferred
• Background in the automotive, automotive e-commerce, or B2B parts/supply chain domain
• Familiarity with Product Information Management systems
• Familiarity with AI products, ML concepts, analytics and data science methodologies
• Experience working with complex marketplace product catalogs and taxonomies, including fitment data and multi-supplier catalog normalization
• Familiarity with supplier integrations, including API-based inventory retrieval