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Senior Product Manager, Search and Signals page is loaded Senior Product Manager, Search and Signals Apply locations New York City time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R0003003 The Opportunity:
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Search & Signals to lead the strategy, development, and optimization of GIPHY’s search experience and personalization systems. This is a highly visible and technical role responsible for the Search platform, which leverages machine learning and behavioral data to power content relevance, ranking, and personalization. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, machine learning, and content teams to ensure users consistently find the most relevant, delightful content whether they’re searching in GIPHY, Instagram, or any platform where our technology lives. The Day to Day:
Own and evolve the Search roadmap, including algorithmic improvements, infrastructure optimization, and product performance across surfaces.
Lead the Signals team strategy, defining how we capture, process, and use behavioral signals to personalize user experiences and improve search relevance.
Partner with engineering and ML teams to deliver high-impact ranking, recall, and semantic search improvements.
Collaborate with design, data science, and content teams to align product features with user behavior and intent.
Define KPIs, design experiments, and build the data foundation needed to understand and improve search quality.
Drive the long-term vision for search and recommendation systems that scale across billions of queries and diverse integrations.
Research state-of-the-art search and recommendation systems across the industry; assess GIPHY’s performance against them and identify opportunities to close gaps in relevance, speed, and personalization.
What you’ll bring to the role:
5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years working on search, personalization, or machine learning systems.
Strong technical background and familiarity with ML concepts, relevance tuning, ranking models, and data pipelines.
Proven ability to interpret complex data, identify actionable insights, and drive high-impact product decisions.
Experience building and scaling search or recommendation platforms.
Deep analytical thinker. You’re fluent in experimentation, cohort analysis, and performance metrics.
Excellent communicator and collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments.
Passionate about expressive media, internet culture, and shaping how people communicate.
Why Shutterstock:
You'll shape the search and discovery experiences that power expression for millions of users worldwide.
You'll partner with a highly skilled, curious, and mission-driven team.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge search and ML problems at massive scale.
You’ll be part of a culture that values creativity, experimentation, and inclusive collaboration.
Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services. It’s a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work.Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views. At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it. We’re champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth.Diverse teams are critical to our success. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply and we commit to creating and maintaining a culture where employees know they belong and have equal opportunities to succeed. Why GIPHY
GIPHY sits at the intersection of personal communication and shared moments. GIPHY is the best way to search, share, discover and create GIFs on the Internet. The content on GIPHY's website, app, and API is all of the best and most popular GIFs on the web, along with content created by talented GIF artists and world-class brands. Our goal is to help make finding and sharing the good GIFs easier. #LI-MS1 #LI-Hybrid At Shutterstock, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. The compensation package offered may vary depending on employment experience, skills, and knowledge. You may also be eligible for our generous benefits package including health, wellness and financial benefits. Compensation ranges for candidates in locations outside of the location(s) below may differ based on the cost of labor, market, and additional factors.
The pay range for this position is below: • 170,000 - 180,000 per year in New York Note: Commission-eligible roles are expressed as on-target earnings (base and commission). Non-commission roles are expressed as base salary only but are also eligible for annual incentives. Shutterstock Values We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products, please apply. Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com . The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
About Us
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider ofhigh-quality licensed photographs,vectors,illustrations,videosandmusicto businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 1 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 340 million images and more than 19 million video clips available. Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company’s brands also includeBigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering;Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform;Offset, a high-end image collection;PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; andShutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world'smedia. Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com .
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We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Search & Signals to lead the strategy, development, and optimization of GIPHY’s search experience and personalization systems. This is a highly visible and technical role responsible for the Search platform, which leverages machine learning and behavioral data to power content relevance, ranking, and personalization. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, machine learning, and content teams to ensure users consistently find the most relevant, delightful content whether they’re searching in GIPHY, Instagram, or any platform where our technology lives. The Day to Day:
Own and evolve the Search roadmap, including algorithmic improvements, infrastructure optimization, and product performance across surfaces.
Lead the Signals team strategy, defining how we capture, process, and use behavioral signals to personalize user experiences and improve search relevance.
Partner with engineering and ML teams to deliver high-impact ranking, recall, and semantic search improvements.
Collaborate with design, data science, and content teams to align product features with user behavior and intent.
Define KPIs, design experiments, and build the data foundation needed to understand and improve search quality.
Drive the long-term vision for search and recommendation systems that scale across billions of queries and diverse integrations.
Research state-of-the-art search and recommendation systems across the industry; assess GIPHY’s performance against them and identify opportunities to close gaps in relevance, speed, and personalization.
What you’ll bring to the role:
5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years working on search, personalization, or machine learning systems.
Strong technical background and familiarity with ML concepts, relevance tuning, ranking models, and data pipelines.
Proven ability to interpret complex data, identify actionable insights, and drive high-impact product decisions.
Experience building and scaling search or recommendation platforms.
Deep analytical thinker. You’re fluent in experimentation, cohort analysis, and performance metrics.
Excellent communicator and collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments.
Passionate about expressive media, internet culture, and shaping how people communicate.
Why Shutterstock:
You'll shape the search and discovery experiences that power expression for millions of users worldwide.
You'll partner with a highly skilled, curious, and mission-driven team.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge search and ML problems at massive scale.
You’ll be part of a culture that values creativity, experimentation, and inclusive collaboration.
Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services. It’s a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work.Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views. At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it. We’re champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth.Diverse teams are critical to our success. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply and we commit to creating and maintaining a culture where employees know they belong and have equal opportunities to succeed. Why GIPHY
GIPHY sits at the intersection of personal communication and shared moments. GIPHY is the best way to search, share, discover and create GIFs on the Internet. The content on GIPHY's website, app, and API is all of the best and most popular GIFs on the web, along with content created by talented GIF artists and world-class brands. Our goal is to help make finding and sharing the good GIFs easier. #LI-MS1 #LI-Hybrid At Shutterstock, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. The compensation package offered may vary depending on employment experience, skills, and knowledge. You may also be eligible for our generous benefits package including health, wellness and financial benefits. Compensation ranges for candidates in locations outside of the location(s) below may differ based on the cost of labor, market, and additional factors.
The pay range for this position is below: • 170,000 - 180,000 per year in New York Note: Commission-eligible roles are expressed as on-target earnings (base and commission). Non-commission roles are expressed as base salary only but are also eligible for annual incentives. Shutterstock Values We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products, please apply. Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com . The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
About Us
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider ofhigh-quality licensed photographs,vectors,illustrations,videosandmusicto businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 1 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 340 million images and more than 19 million video clips available. Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company’s brands also includeBigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering;Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform;Offset, a high-end image collection;PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; andShutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world'smedia. Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accommodation_request@shutterstock.com .
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