Principal Product Manager - Machine Learning

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About the Role

The Community team builds products that help connect 100M+ viewers to millions of live streamers in real time. As Principal Product manager for Search, you are responsible for end-to-end Search experience and strategy at Twitch, overseeing our modeling and relevance engine, and overall growth of the full suite of Search products. You’ll craft delightful experiences that make it easier for users to engage with live content happening at any and every moment. Reporting to the VP of Product of Community, you provide strategy that requires a balance of well placed machine learning and data science investments, empathy that prioritizes customer-first solutions and storytelling skills to inspire leaders across the company.

This position can be located in San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY.

You Will:

• Manage product definition, strategy and long-term vision for recommendations at Twitch
• Collaborate with researchers, data scientists and engineers to run data-driven experiments and modeling improvements to inform product direction.
• Work with teams across the organization to launch new features powered by machine learning.
• Integrate behavioral data and customer feedback into important product decisions.
• Influence product managers across all of Twitch by communicating your vision for content recommendations.

You Have:

• 5+ years of Product Development experience launching recommendation and machine learning products at scale
• 3+ years as a PM: we firmly believe that Engineering, Science, TPM and Design experience is valuable for PMs and counts towards time in role
• Direct experience with ML at a large scale media/tech or digital entertainment company.
• An understanding of Machine Learning, and the ability to map customer problems to ML solutions.
• Make ML products clear, coherent and understandable to non-technical partners.
• Understanding of common ML algorithms, and ability to predict what is and isn’t feasible with the available data
• Expertise in data driven development; Experience drawing relevant insights from ambiguous data to make decisions

Bonus Points

• A Computer Science background OR at least 2 years directly working with Machine Learning teams
• Experience from Community based, or live streaming products

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount
• Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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Job ID: TW8419

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