Job Title: Staff Product Manager - Search
Department, Level: Viewer Experience, X31
Location: Onsite, Bangalore
Work Type: Full time

Job Summary: As a Staff Product Manager for JioHotstar’s Search, you'll work closely with senior product and engineering peers to shape a product strategy that drives measurable improvements in query understanding, ranking, search personalisation, cold start and content discovery across JioHotstar's 500M+ user base. You will own the core search experience end-to-end - from the search zero page, query understanding, ranking to results presentation and query-assist surfaces (pills, suggestions, spell-correct). Drawing on data, experimentation, and deep NLP/ML product instincts, you will identify gaps in query coverage and relevance, translate them into clear product requirements, and work with ML and engineering to ship improvements that move search success and engagement metrics at scale.

About the Team:
At JioHotstar, we're on a mission to deliver delightful experiences to our 500+ million customers across the globe.



Our technology spans multiple countries. The Search team sits within the Viewer Experience org and is responsible for helping every user find exactly what they're looking for through a state-of-the-art search experience.
We blend world-class engineering, ML, design, and data to deliver a fast, relevant search experience at massive scale. If you're passionate about building intelligent search and query-understanding systems that measurably improve how hundreds of millions of users discover content, join us in shaping the future of content discovery.

Key responsibilities
- Conduct thorough research and analysis on query logs, search relevance, and content discovery gaps to generate actionable insights and determine ROI of search investments.
- Translate abstract problem statements into explicit requirements by assessing query intent, retrieval & ranking model performance, and catalog coverage.
- Own and evolve the query unde

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