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As the Engineering Manager for our Search Quality & Ranking team, you'll lead a team of engineers to build and improve the search experience that millions of Notion users rely on every day. You'll guide the team's work on search ranking algorithms, query understanding, AI-powered connector search, and experimentation that help us continuously improve search quality at scale.
Job Responsibility:
Build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of engineers working on search ranking, query understanding, and search UX
Recruit, coach, and develop engineers
Collaborate closely with cross-functional peers to set the direction of your team
Facilitate planning—the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work—for your team
Keep the team accountable and ensure the team is consistently working on the most important things
Be responsible for maintaining a high-quality bar for everything your team builds
Be accountable for driving project execution, using data to make decisions about prioritization and impact
Work with the rest of the Engineering team to shape how Notion's engineering organization works
Requirements:
Experience managing engineering teams working on search, ranking, relevance, or related areas
Deep understanding of building and maintaining high-quality search experiences at scale
Sufficiently deep background in search quality, ranking algorithms, and experimentation methodologies
Understanding that search is mission-critical infrastructure
Excited about the evolving landscape of AI-powered search
Ability to create collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challenging team environments
Value empathetic and direct communication
High tolerance for ambiguity and change
Passionate about line management responsibilities and building a strong, cohesive team culture
Curious and willing to adopt AI tools
Nice to have:
Experience with AI connectors, enterprise search, or building search experiences across multiple data sources
Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) based features or integrating LLM-powered capabilities into search systems
Experience building or managing teams responsible for experimentation and A/B testing frameworks for search
Managed engineering teams at startups before, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change
Experience rolling out engineering and management practices and processes
Familiarity with computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay
What we offer:
Highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits