Lead Product Manager, Search & Recommendation

Lead Product Manager, Search & Recommendation

Grab's food and dineout search handles millions of queries across Southeast Asia every day. We're looking for a Lead PM who can do both: raise the bar on the current search fundamentals (relevance, ranking, query understanding, conversion) while also building the next generation of search experiences leveraging the latest AI developments to solve for natural language queries, differentiated AI search discovery, LLM-powered intent understanding, smarter personalization.

This is a high-ownership, IC role. You'll set the direction, partner closely with ML engineers and data scientists, and ship measurable outcomes across Food Deliveries and Dining Out — two of Grab's largest businesses.

The vision for this charter and role will be to take a robust search experience and step-change its experience, relevance, personalisation and efficiency to deliver outstanding consumer search experience and strong business outcomes.

This role requires a blend of technical depth in search systems, connecting consumer problems to technical solutions, and the leadership skills to align cross-functional teams based in Beijing and Singapore. Critical tasks you will perform will include:

• End-to-End Ownership of search discovery experience roadmap for our Food deliveries, Dining out products
• Build best in class Search Discovery, upgrading the user discovery experience, search relevance, personalisation resulting in increased conversion
• Lead AI-Led Search Evolution with roadmap for next-generation search capabilities: natural language search, LLM-assisted search
• Partner with Data Science & ML Engineering to evolve the models and signals that power search algorithms and personalization. Translate model improvements into measurable consumer and business outcomes.
• Cross-Border Leadership - Drive the product strategy and execution for search acting as a bridge between our tech hubs in Beijing and Singapore, and business and product stakeholders in the region.

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.