Senior Manager, Search Platforms – AI

Softcard (acquired by Google)

Lead engineering for AI-powered search and product finding platforms at Genuine Parts Company. Drive business outcomes through modernization and optimization of search capabilities.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeMinnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesNoSQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the strategy, engineering, and applied AI capabilities that power search, discovery, and product finding platforms across digital channels.
Drive measurable business outcomes through relevance optimization, search platform modernization, machine learning, GenAI, and agentic commerce capabilities.
Implement the technology strategy and execution for GPC’s unified commerce platforms.
Exhibit a deep understanding of modern technology stack and agile delivery models.
Partner with Product and cross-functional GPC teams to define and execute a vision for AI-powered search that improves conversion, revenue, and customer productivity.
Implement the technology platforms architecture and execute on roadmap to support build out the new commerce related capabilities needed for the unified commerce strategy.
Lead the engineering teams responsible for search platform architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Drive modernization of search infrastructure leveraging cloud-native and AI-enabled technologies.
Build and scale Search Science capabilities including relevance tuning, ranking models, semantic search, vector search, recommendations, and personalization.
Responsible for delivery and support of the platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience
10+ years’ experience in software engineering delivery (including 3+ years in leadership role)
Consistent track record of leadership, teamwork, and delivering high impact results.
Extensive experience building enterprise grade systems/applications supporting business priorities.
Experience managing 25+ FTE team of internal and extended delivery resources.
Experience in leading leaders.
Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business.
Ability to attract, motivate and retain world-class IT talent.
Experience in understanding of Information Retrieval, Search Relevance, Ranking Systems, Recommendations, and Personalization.
Must also have broad and deep technical understanding of the technologies in this field, including but not limited to familiarity with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, Google Cloud Retail Search, vector search platforms, and ML ecosystems.
Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and data engineering.
Experience in GenAI, LLMs, Graph RAG, agentic workflows, and conversational commerce.
Experience with semantic search, vector databases, embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and LLM-powered experiences.
Experience in designing event driven mechanisms, publish/subscribe models.
Experience with cloud computing on at least one of the major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure).
Experience working with modern SQL/noSQL Databases.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work remotely

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsearch technologiesElasticsearchApache SolrGoogle Cloud Retail Searchmachine learningsemantic searchvector searchAPIsdata engineering

Soft Skills

leadershipteamworkcommunicationmotivationretentiontechnical information sharingproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationstrategic thinkingresults-oriented