Senior Product Manager

Who you are

• 4+ years of search product management experience and 1+ year of experience within private capital markets
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience developing a vision and roadmap for an area of a product – ideally Search, Discovery, Ranking, Recommendations, and/or AI/ML-powered workflows
• Experience building high-quality, successful products with design, data science, and engineering teams, including launching and iterating using measurable KPIs
• Experience performing customer research to better understand your customers and uncover their true needs around search intent, relevance expectations, and decision-making workflows
• Can partner and influence effectively across all levels of an organization, and regularly use these skills to improve the work going on around you
• Experience in a prior startup or high-ambiguity environment; a track record of managing ambiguity and complexity affecting many stakeholders in an organized and structured way
• Experience with data analysis (using SQL/R/Python), metrics, and goal-setting – you’ve defined and owned metrics for search relevance and discovery success (offline and online)
• Interested in an office-centric culture with a flexible work environment
• Vector search/embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, query understanding, or ANN indexing experience
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch (or similar) familiarity
• Hands-on experience with GenAI evaluation/monitoring (goldens, rubrics, regression, drift, hallucinations, prompt injection)
• Familiarity with AI governance basics (PII, access control, auditability)

What the job involves

• Grata is the leading private market dealmaking platform
• We make it easy to find, research, and engage with private companies
• Our platform has the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, their financials, and their owners
• We help leading investors (PE/growth), investment bankers, management consultants, and corporate development teams discover and win more deals
• Grata has over 700 customers and has been widely recognized as the market leader by G2, PE Wire, and more
• We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager, AI Search & Discovery to lead the development of Grata’s core discovery engine – how dealmakers search, explore, and build conviction on the right companies
• In this role, you will define, strategize, implement, and optimize AI-native search and discovery workflows
• As a Senior Product Manager at Grata, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deeply understand customer needs, prioritize the highest-impact opportunities, and work closely with engineering to deliver high-quality experiences
• You will play a crucial role in ensuring our AI-powered discovery experiences adhere to industry standards, maintain reliability and trust, and scale effectively with the evolving needs of our growing business
• We are looking for someone who takes initiative, excels in a fluid environment, and transforms ambiguity into clear solutions
• The ideal candidate is deeply customer-obsessed, ensuring that their work consistently aligns with and addresses customer needs
• If you’re passionate about building innovative products, shaping the future of AI-native search and discovery for private markets, and driving real impact for dealmakers, we’d love to hear from you
• Grata is a hybrid company, which means our employees work from our NYC office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Build a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points, and behaviors by partnering with commercial teams and conducting user research and data analysis
• Develop strategic roadmaps with clear milestones and measurable metrics to achieve ambitious goals and track progress effectively
• Work across design, engineering, data science, QA, and product marketing to define and ship the roadmap for external facing semantic search, ranking, recommendations, and LLM/RAG-powered discovery workflows
• Prioritize initiatives ruthlessly using a data-driven approach to maximize impact and deliver customer value – balancing quality, latency, cost, and reliability in production AI systems
• Craft detailed requirements informed by customer conversations, usage data analysis, and iterative feedback from design and engineering teams – translating needs into clear specs
• Establish yourself as the go-to expert and trusted leader for Search & Discovery quality, building credibility through ownership, measurable improvements, and continuous iteration
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, distilling complex AI search concepts into clear insights that drive alignment across the organization

Benefits

• Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
• Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
• Employee assistance program
• Generous retirement plans
• Incentives for referring new colleagues
• Learning, training and mentoring programs
• Cross-functional projects
• Stretch assignments to help you progress
• Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
• Employee bonding activities
• ESG and charitable team initiatives