Sr. Product Manager - Recommendation Systems

What you will do at VeSync:

Product Strategy & Roadmap
Own the Recommendation Systems Roadmap: Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for personalization and recommendation deliver, prioritizing bets that move engagement, retention, and health-behavior outcomes.
Translate Model & Behavioral Outputs into Product: Partner with AI/ML and Behavioral Science to turn decision-logic outputs, ontology structure, and model capabilities into a coherent, shippable recommendation experience.
Identify and Prioritize Opportunities: Evaluate new personalization and recommendation opportunities across the app and user journey — and build a prioritized pipeline tied to company-level goals.
Define Product Requirements: Write clear requirements, specify tailoring and delivery constraints (cadence, cooldowns, sequencing) and set success criteria for every initiative.
Own Launch Readiness: Drive the recommendation system toward launch, sequencing dependencies across Engineering, ML, Science, and Product, ensuring instrumentation and guardrails are in place before release.
Experimentation & Measurement
Lead KPI Definition and Defense: Propose primary and supporting metrics for every initiative, and prevent metric drift by proactively aligning stakeholders on what “working” means.
Own Experiment Design End-to-End: Partner with Behavioral Science on micro-randomization, adaptive trial designs and in-product experimentation; ensure every test is tied to a concrete product decision.
Drive Experiments to Decisions: Turn experiment results into roadmap changes, not just readouts — ensuring rigor doesn’t come at the expense of shipping speed.
Monitor Production Performance: Track recommendation quality and engagement in production, flag regressions or drift, and work with ML and Science to correct course quickly.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with AI/ML Engineering: Work directly with ML engineers on ranking, retrieval, and recommendation architecture, engaging meaningfully in technical trade-off discussions.
Align Engineering, Design, and Content: Maintain lockstep with partner teams on scope, sequencing, and timelines, and keep stakeholders informed of progress, risks, and blockers with clear options and recommendations.
Communicate with Clarity: Present strategy, trade-offs, and recommendations with high signal-to-noise, in writing and in person, to both technical and executive audiences.

What you bring to the role:

Education: BS/MS in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related) preferred; MBA a plus.
Experience: 7+ years in product management, including meaningful time owning recommendation, ranking, personalization, search, or feed products, ideally in consumer tech, health tech, or wellness.
Recommendation & Personalization Systems: Working knowledge of ranking, collaborative filtering, contextual bandits, or content-based recommendation approaches, and familiarity with personalization at scale.
Experimentation & Causal Rigor: Comfort with A/B testing, experiment design, statistical significance, and metric frameworks; ability to define, defend, and prevent drift on KPIs.
Technical Depth: Proven ability to work closely with ML engineers and data scientists on model performance, feature engineering, and system architecture, and to make sound product trade-offs from technical constraints.
Ownership and Bias to Action: Track record of driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end — from problem framing through strategy to shipped outcomes.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence and align engineering, data science, design, and content/behavioral teams without direct authority.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication; able to write clear product specs and present strategy and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Industry Knowledge: Experience in health tech, digital health, wellness, wearables, or consumer subscription products is strongly preferred.

Location:

• Tustin, CA

Salary:

• Starting at $140K Annually

Perks and Benefits:

100% covered Medical/Dental/Vision insurances for employee AND spouse + dependents!
401K with 4% employer match (eligible after 90 days of employment) and immediate 100% vesting
Generous PTO policy + paid holidays
Life Insurance
Voluntary Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Critical Illness Coverage
Accident Insurance
Healthcare FSA
Dependent Care FSA
Travel Assistance Program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Fully stocked kitchen