Senior Engineering Manager - Discovery

About Faire

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe.

About the Role

The Discovery Experience team at Faire sits at the intersection of search, evaluate, and personalization — shaping how retailers find the products they love. Our mission is to build the most intuitive, intelligent, and delightful discovery experience in wholesale: one that feels less like a search engine and more like a trusted merchant with an encyclopedic knowledge of what's in stock and what will sell.

In this role, you will partner closely with product, design, and machine learning teams to craft search and discovery experiences that are fast, relevant, and deeply personalized. You will own a critical part of the discovery experience, spanning search, recommendations, and Gen-AI experience that drives a meaningful share of marketplace engagement, conversion, and retailer success.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the technical vision for Faire's discovery experience, spanning search UX, recommendations, and AI-powered discovery.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers focused on the retailer-facing discovery surface.
• Drive the integration of Algo and AI/LLM-powered capabilities into the discovery experience — from natural language search to intelligent query understanding and personalized results.
• Partner with product and design to raise the bar on search UX, ensuring the experience is intuitive, accessible, and optimized.
• Enable rapid experimentation across discovery surfaces, working closely with ML teams to iterate on ranking, surfacing, and personalization.
• Champion observability and quality across the discovery stack, building the right instrumentation to understand user behavior.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across relevance, ML, infrastructure, and product engineering.
• Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent, fostering an inclusive team culture.
• Work closely with leadership to align discovery investments with Faire's growth strategy and marketplace priorities.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Hands-on familiarity with AI and ML-powered product development, including experience integrating or shipping LLM-based features, semantic search, or personalization systems.
• Strong product sensibility and communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical direction.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and aligning engineering roadmaps with product and business priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.