Product Manager III

at Indeed in Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Our Mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We’re looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

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Day to Day

Indeed’s Marketplace Data Platform (MDP) is Indeed’s ML feature platform and product data platform. Every day, you will be on a mission to accelerate AI/ML innovation, making ML effortless and data consistent across the entire ecosystem. Your impact scales to 665M+ job seekers, 20 million+ jobs, and 3.5M+ employers globally across 60+ countries. MDP owns the full ML feature lifecycle (ingestion, feature engineering, online and offline serving, monitoring, and governance) and is the source of truth for ML and product teams powering Search, Recommendations and more across Indeed, Glassdoor, and the broader Recruit network.

As a Senior Product Manager on MDP, you will own the platform’s data discovery, understanding and governance tooling as well as its economics – the systems that make data discoverable, trustworthy, and compliant, and the levers that bring cost and usage efficiency to the entire platform. You will define the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for this area, partnering with engineering, UX, and science leadership. You will work closely with diverse clients across the Indeed ecosystem, anticipate their needs in a fast-moving market, and balance near-term demands against long-term platform health. Above all, you will drive economies of scale: capabilities and data assets built once and reused across product surfaces, governance that scales without slowing teams down, and clear visibility into platform cost and usage so investment follows ROI.

Responsibilities

+ Define and own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for data discovery, understanding, and governance.

+ Engage clients and autonomously drive discovery across the Indeed ecosystem; balance customer needs, market dynamics, and business direction; anticipate evolving ML and GenAI patterns.

+ Design for interoperability across adjacent surfaces, APIs, and data contracts; drive alignment on shared dependencies.

+ Partner with engineering on architecture and capability decisions; balance customer value with scalability, latency, and cost.

+ Define and monitor adoption, freshness, lineage coverage, and feature reuse; iterate post-launch on feedback and data.

+ Communicate complex technical context to senior leadership and partners – crisp written and verbal updates on risks and trade-offs.

+ Mentor junior PMs and engineers – sharing product thinking, roadmapping, and customer-centric trade-off frameworks to raise the bar on product practice within MDP.

Skills/Competencies

+ Requires Bachelor’s degree and at least 12 years relevant experience, 14 years of relevant experience, or equivalent in education and experience.

+ Technical background with a deep understanding of software development teams and how ML engineers, applied scientists, and data analysts work, with a focus on delivering an exceptional developer experience for teams building on platform capabilities.

+ Proven track record building and scaling feature platforms, ML infrastructure, or data platforms that solve complex technical challenges and create meaningful impact for users and internal teams.

+ Expertise across the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, online and offline serving, monitoring, and the technologies that support each stage of model development and deployment.

+ Familiarity with feature platform architecture and operations, including streaming and batch pipelines, online and offline feature stores, point-in-time-correct training data, freshness, governance, lineage, and discovery.

+ Demonstrated success improving platform efficiency through cost attribution, usage and adoption metrics, capability reuse, and data-driven decision-making in ambiguous, high-impact environments.

+ Working knowledge of privacy and data governance frameworks, including PII, GDPR, and CCPA, and their implications for platform design, coupled with excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 – United States of America 150,000 – 224,000 USD per year

Tier 2 – United States of America 166,000 – 250,000 USD per year

Tier 3 – United States of America 182,000 – 274,000 USD per year

Tier 4 – N/A

Tier 5 – United States of America 207,000 – 311,000 USD per year

Salary Range Disclaimer

The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site (https://www.indeed.com/careers/paytiers), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.

Benefits – Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing

We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits !

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.

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