Senior Product Manager, Vertical Search

Nebius
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Who this role is best for

Strong fit for candidates with deep technical expertise in search and data products who can independently define and execute vertical roadmaps.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in product management and technical depth in search or data systems
    — “5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion in search, data, or industry-specific AI products.”
  • Individuals who have successfully shaped industry-specific products from customer workflows
    — “You sit with customers in these industries until you understand their workflow, then turn that into specs engineering can build.”
  • Candidates who can make strategic decisions on vertical investments and prioritize use cases
    — “The hard part is choosing. There are more verticals worth building than we can build...”

Things to consider

  • Requires owning outcomes from initial discovery through to revenue generation
    — “You own the outcome, not just the handoff: from the first market call through to adoption and revenue.”
  • Limited flexibility in choosing verticals due to strategic prioritization constraints
    — “The difference between a good year and a wasted one is knowing which ones to invest in and which to walk away from...”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience building industry-specific products from customer workflows
    — “You sit with customers in these industries until you understand their workflow...”
  • Emphasize technical engagement with data sources and evaluation of their quality
    — “Find and evaluate the data behind each vertical, across public sources and paid providers...”
  • Showcase ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
    — “The ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.”
  • Demonstrate strategic thinking in prioritizing verticals and defining product surfaces
    — “Own the vertical roadmap. You decide where we invest, what we ship for each...”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • vertical roadmap ownership
  • product surface shaping
  • data evaluation
  • customer needs translation
Typical background
5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion in search, data, or industry-specific AI products

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementVertical SearchData EvaluationCustomer InteractionTechnical DepthProduct Surface Shaping

Preferred

AI ProductizationIndustry-specific AI Products

Stack & domain

Product ManagementSearchDataAILeadershipCommunicationTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Nebius

About Nebius:

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

The role

Tavily, part of Nebius, is the web access layer for AI agents. Over two million developers use us, and our customers include Fortune 500 companies running agents in production.

Vertical search is where we combine public sources with premium vertical data and shape the result into a product for a specific use case. This role owns that layer end to end. You decide which industries and use cases we productize. With the data team, you find and evaluate the public and premium data providers behind each one. You shape the product surface that sits on top.

You will sit with customers in these industries, learn how they actually work, and turn their needs and pain points into clear specs. You will build with engineering, ship it, and make sure go-to-market knows how to sell it. You own the outcome, not just the handoff: from the first market call through to adoption and revenue.

The hard part is choosing. There are more verticals worth building than we can build, and the difference between a good year and a wasted one is knowing which ones to invest in and which to walk away from, even when a large customer is asking for another.

In your first year, we expect you to know our top use cases better than anyone here, ship a product built for one of them that customers will pay more for, and have a defensible view of what comes next.

This is a hands-on senior IC role with real ownership. You will work within a small PM team reporting to the Director of Product, alongside engineering, research, data, and go-to-market.

Your responsibilities will include: 

Own the vertical roadmap. You decide where we invest, what we ship for each, and when a vertical is not worth it.

Shape the product surface on top of the data, so a customer gets something built for their job.

Find and evaluate the data behind each vertical, across public sources and paid providers, and decide what is worth investing in.

Sit with customers in these industries until you understand their workflow, then turn that into specs engineering can build.

Set what a good answer looks like in each use case, working with our evaluation team, who own how we measure it.

Work with customer success to learn what customers ask us for and what makes them leave.

Partner with the search owner on how results should be ranked and shaped for each use case.

We expect you to have: 

5+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion in search, data, or industry-specific AI products.

Experience building products for a specific industry or use case, combined with enough technical depth to work directly on the data underneath: where it comes from, how good it is, and what it takes to make it usable.

A track record of real customer discovery: you have gone deep on how a particular kind of team works, and shipped something because of what you found.

Experience in API-first or developer-platform businesses.

Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and how search and retrieval systems fit into agentic workflows.

A technical background, through a degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent hands-on experience, with the ability to engage deeply with technical architecture and tradeoffs.

The ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.

It will be an added bonus if you have: 

Domain experience in market intelligence, news, financial research, or another data-heavy industry.

Background at a data provider, enrichment vendor, market intelligence platform, or vertical search company, or experience building vertical data products in-house.

Experience evaluating and working with external data providers, including judging quality and negotiating what you actually need.

Leadership experience in a high-growth technology company, especially post-acquisition or startup-within-a-larger-org environments.

Benefits & Perks:

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning opportunities

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects

International environment and talented teams

What's it like to work at Nebius:

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI 

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire. 

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Source: Nebius careers

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