Senior Engineering Manager (Discovery)

Join Faire, a technology wholesale platform dedicated to empowering local communities and independent retailers. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the Discovery Experience team, shaping how retailers find and engage with products. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and machine learning teams to create fast, relevant, and personalized search and discovery experiences. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategy across product engineering, ML, and infrastructure, while fostering a culture of craft, ownership, and continuous learning within your team.

• Definir y ejecutar la visión técnica para la experiencia de descubrimiento de Faire, abarcando la experiencia de búsqueda, las recomendaciones y el descubrimiento impulsado por la IA.
• Liderar, mentorear y hacer crecer un equipo de ingenieros enfocados en la superficie de descubrimiento orientada al minorista, fomentando una cultura de artesanía, propiedad y aprendizaje continuo.
• Impulsar la integración de capacidades impulsadas por algoritmos y AI/LLM en la experiencia de descubrimiento, desde la búsqueda en lenguaje natural hasta la comprensión inteligente de consultas y resultados personalizados.
• Have experience building search or discovery products end-to-end, with a strong appreciation for the interplay between UX, relevance, and infrastructure
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity and structure to complex, multi-team problems
• Enjoy working across disciplines — with relevance engineers, ML practitioners, product managers, and designers — to deliver experiences that are greater than the sum of their parts
• Believe in a culture of radical candor and psychological safety, and lead by example in encouraging diverse viewpoints and open discussion
• Have led high-performing engineering teams, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Have a strong background in building and shipping consumer or B2B product features at scale, with experience collaborating closely with product and design
• Have a user-first mindset: you think deeply about search UX, query understanding, and how small UI decisions drive big differences in retailer satisfaction and conversion
• Are genuinely excited about AI-powered discovery — you've worked with LLMs, semantic search, or conversational interfaces and believe they're reshaping how people find things
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on familiarity with AI and ML-powered product development, including experience integrating or shipping LLM-based features, semantic search, or personalization systems
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and aligning engineering roadmaps with product and business priorities
• Strong product sensibility and communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical direction
• 8+ years of experience in engineering roles, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership positions
• Demonstrated experience working on search, discovery, recommendations, or related product domains — either on the UX/product side or the relevance/infrastructure side (ideally both)