Job Title: Director
Department, Level: Viewer Experiences, X32
Location: Onsite, Bangalore
Work Type: Full time
Job Summary: As a Director – Discovery, you’ll lead the engineering efforts behind some of the most critical systems in the user journey—tray ranking, page ranking, and core recommendation infrastructure. You will own and evolve the core platforms that drive personalization at scale, powering energetic and contextual discovery experiences across the product.
Your teams will be responsible for building large-scale, low-latency systems that determine what content a user sees on the homepage and across key surfaces. These systems directly influence engagement, retention, and satisfaction by surfacing the most relevant content for each user. You will lead and take full ownership of a cross-functional team spanning Machine Learning, Data Science, and Engineering to define and drive the future of personalized experiences. Your work will push the boundaries of innovation in multi-objective ranking, exploration strategies, and real-time inference at scale
About the team:



At JioHotstar, the Viewer Experience (VX) org is at the heart of how millions discover, engage with, and fall in love with our platform. We own the end-to-end user journey—from first app launch to daily habit loops—across Search, Personalization, Watch Experience, Interactivity, and more. We blend world-class engineering, ML, design, and data to deliver a seamless, personalized, and engaging OTT experience at massive scale. If you're passionate about building immersive, intelligent, and performant user experiences that delight a billion users, join us in shaping the future of streaming.
Key responsibilities:
Lead and scale the Core Recommendations & Surfaces team, owning critical systems that power retrieval, ranking, and core recommendation infrastructure for personalized experiences across the platform.
Drive the technical strategy and roadmap for core recommendation platforms—optimizing relevance

📌 Director - Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 JioStar
📍 Bengaluru