Product Manager, FirstSearch

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The Product Manager, First Search leads the development and delivery of AI-enabled discovery experiences, owning end-to-end researcher workflows within Discovery and Delivery Services. This role focuses on creating intuitive, high-quality search experiences that leverage natural language understanding, semantic search, and connected knowledge to help researchers easily express intent, explore relationships, and move seamlessly from discovery to access.

Partnering closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, the Product Manager translates researcher needs and market trends into product strategy, roadmaps, and innovative solutions aligned with evolving, AI-driven user expectations. This role drives execution of complex initiatives, ensures alignment with organizational strategy, and delivers value to member libraries through strong product leadership, user insight, and continuous collaboration.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Planning

• Oversees market analysis and developstheproduct strategy and business casesfor
  
  First
  
  Searchand new researcher offerings

• Defines strategic product goalsfor First Searchaligned to the researcher

• Defines discovery features toimprovea researcher’s open, exploratoryworkflow

• Contributes toproduct roadmaps

• Collaborates on release plans with software development team

• Collaborate with Discovery Product teamto ensure semantic features integrate withexistingsearch results and next gendiscovery

• Collaborates with finance in the production of product budgets and forecasts

• Develops pricing strategies and product positioning plans which contribute to maximizing product profitability

Leadership and Management

• Provides leadership to cross-functional product work groups. Leads Product management meetings. Resolves conflicts and drives consensus.

• Facilitates collaboration and communication and secures commitment between Development and Product Management and other divisional work groups towards achievement of common goals.

• Develops and monitors progress on product roadmap

Product Marketing Oversight and Consultation

• Assistsin the development of strategies…