Hybrid Product Manager – Search Platform

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About the role

  • Product Manager shaping and delivering core retrieval services that power Elsevier’s products. Collaborating with engineering teams to improve search capabilities and platform performance.

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver selected Search Platform initiatives end-to-end, from problem definition through release and drive adoption, aligned with shared platform OKRs
  • Translate internal product and engineers needs into clear platform requirements, balancing flexibility with long term maintainability
  • Work closely with engineering leadership to evolve the search stack and underlying architecture, supporting reliability, scalability, and modernization efforts
  • Collaborate with other teams (e.g content ingestion, experimentation) to enable seamless integration of search capabilities into product workflows and AI-driven experiences
  • Improve the developer experience by strengthening documentation, onboarding material, service clarity, and feedback loops with consuming teams
  • Define and track platform health metrics (e.g., performance, reliability, adoption) and use insights to guide prioritisation
  • Contribute to roadmap development and reusable platform patterns that serve support diverse use cases across Elsevier

Requirements

  • Experience working on platform or infrastructure products that serve internal or multi-team stakeholders, ideally within search or data-intensive environments
  • Comfort working with engineering teams and technical stakeholders to deliver complex systems
  • Familiarity with search or retrieval technologies (for example: Elasticsearch, Solr, vector search, hybrid retrieval or graph-based systems)
  • Ability to work across multiple teams, balance competing internal stakeholder needs, and drive progress in ambiguous or evolving technical environments
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and make thoughtful, data-informed prioritisation decisions

Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Travel Season ticket loan
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme
  • Optional Dental Insurance
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
  • Access to extensive learning and development resources
  • Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

Job title

Product Manager – Search Platform

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Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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