Director, Product Management - Job Ingestion

We are looking for a Director, Product Management – Job Ingestion to own and drive our enterprise job acquisition and processing strategy. You will serve as the strategic product leader bridging technical data systems with core business growth levers. In this role, you will lead the evolution of our web scraping, API feed integrations, ATS (Applicant Tracking System) connections, real-time event processing, and job parsing/normalization architectures across all BOLD web properties. The ideal candidate does not require domain experience in recruitment technology or HR tech, but must bring a strong background in data engineering or data systems (e. g. , former Data Engineer, Systems Architect, or Technical Data PM). This is a player/coach role and you should be skilled at driving outcomes as an individual contributor at times. You will leverage your technical depth to partner credibly with principal data engineers while applying strong business judgment and executive storytelling to connect job inventory health, latency, and quality directly to platform engagement, SEO footprint, and monetization. About this team Job Ingestion is the foundational engine that powers BOLD’s entire job discovery and recruitment platform. Our mission is to build, scale, and optimize high-throughput, enterprise-grade ingestion systems that aggregate, parse, normalize, and index millions of job postings daily across all BOLD properties and partner feeds. By transforming high-volume, unstructured job data into rich, standardized job entities, our team enables critical downstream capabilities – most notably powering Search & Match, job alerts, SEO landing pages, recommendations, and employer analytics. We operate at the intersection of Data Engineering, Core Infrastructure, Search & Match, and Enterprise GTM to ensure job content is accurate, fresh, comprehensive, and instantly accessible to job seekers globally.

What you'll do - Own Enterprise Strategy & ROI: Define and execute the multi-year Job Ingestion strategy, directly linking job processing improvements – scraping, ATS feeds, parsing, deduplication, and schema mapping – to downstream search relevance, candidate engagement, and business growth. - Executive Storytelling & Alignment: Translate technical data concepts (pipeline latency, schema health, ATS stability) into executive-ready business narratives and clear investment proposals for leadership. - Cross-Functional Partnership: Build trust and alignment across matrixed teams, including Data Engineering, Search & Match, SEO, Portal, Mobile, and Job Alerts, to ensure seamless integration of normalized job content into all downstream surfaces. - Operational & Technical Execution: Lead cross-functional squads (data engineers, PMs, QA) to drive predictable delivery, establishing rigorous metrics for pipeline uptime, parsing accuracy, deduping precision, and data freshness. - Data Quality & Governance: Establish schema validation, content freshness, spam/scam detection, and compliance standards to maintain high job catalog health without breaking downstream search indices. - Team Development & Product Rituals: Coach and mentor product managers in business sense and executive communication, while establishing operational rituals that drive velocity and clarity. What you'll need - 8–10+ years of product management experience (or equivalent technical leadership experience) leading complex, large-scale data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, scraping/crawling engines, or event-driven data architectures. - Deep Data Background: Strong technical depth in data engineering foundations (e. g. , former Data Engineer, Systems Architect, or Technical PM in data platforms). Hands-on familiarity with structured/unstructured data extraction, schema design, distributed processing, and cloud ecosystem components (AWS, GCP, Kafka, Snowflake).