Senior Product Manager, AI Search Retrieval

Location: Bangalore, India

Reports to: Global Product Organisation

About the Role

This is not a general AI PM role. You will own the retrieval and search layer - the part of the system that decides

what

information gets pulled in before an AI generates an answer. You own product outcomes end-to-end, from strategy through launch and continuous improvement, with a general management mindset that balances customer value, commercial impact, and technical feasibility.

You sit in Bangalore, working directly alongside an India-based engineering team and reporting into a global product organisation. "Senior" here means you operate in ambiguity and drive technical decisions rather than facilitate them - you can separate the retrieval mechanism from the interface on top of it, and you have the judgement to trade off precision, recall, coverage, and latency deliberately.

What You'll Own

Retrieval and answer quality
- Own the underlying retrieval, indexing, and ranking layer that feeds AI answer generation (RAG), not just the results UI.




- Make and defend core retrieval tradeoffs: precision vs. recall, coverage vs. noise, speed vs. accuracy.
- Champion explainable, source-attributed, user-centric AI experiences for high-stakes skilled users (managements consultants, financial analysts, journalists, researchers) who have low tolerance for confident wrong answers.
- Define how answer and retrieval quality is measured, combining quantitative signals (engagement, click-through, session depth, explicit ratings) with qualitative ones (user research, annotation review, failure-case analysis). Move beyond generic dashboards and NPS.

Strategy and roadmap
- Help define and communicate a clear product vision aligned to business goals and market opportunities.
- Build and maintain a data-driven strategy and roadmap grounded in customer insight, competitive analysis, and AI/industry trends.
- Develop business cases and investment pr

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