Lead Product Manager, AI Search & Discovery

Lead Product Manager, AI Search & Discovery

• Team Product
• Location Beijing, China
• Job Type Full-time

The role at a glance

Get to Know the Role

Grab's food and dineout search handles millions of queries across Southeast Asia every day. We're looking for a Lead PM who can do both: raise the bar on the current search fundamentals (relevance, ranking, query understanding, conversion) while also building the next generation of search experiences leveraging the latest AI developments to solve for natural language queries, differentiated AI search discovery, LLM-powered intent understanding, smarter personalization.

This is a high-ownership, IC role. You'll set the direction, partner closely with ML engineers and data scientists, and ship measurable outcomes across Food Deliveries and Dining Out — two of Grab's largest businesses.

The vision for this charter and role will be to take a robust search experience and step-change its experience, relevance, personalisation and efficiency to deliver outstanding consumer search experience and strong business outcomes

This role requires a blend of technical depth in search systems, connecting consumer problems to technical solutions, and the leadership skills to align cross-functional teams based in Beijing and Singapore. Critical tasks you will perform will include,

• End-to-End Ownership of search discovery experience roadmap for our Food deliveries, Dining out products

• Build best in class Search Discovery, upgrading the user discovery experience, search relevance, personalisation resulting in increased conversion

• Lead AI-Led Search Evolution with roadmap for next-generation search capabilities: natural language search, LLM-assisted search

• Partner with Data Science & ML Engineering to evolve the models and signals that power search algorithms and personalization. Translate model improvements into measurable consumer and business outcomes.

• Cross-Border Leadership - Drive the product strategy and execution for search acting as a bridge between our tech hubs in Beijing and Singapore, and business and product stakeholders in the region.

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What Skills we are looking for

• Experience: 7-10+ years of product management experience (or equivalent), with a proven track record of owning high-scale systems (e.g., search, recommendations, marketplaces).

• Strong Product + Quant Orientation: Comfort shaping strategy using data, designing rigorous experiments, and making high-stakes trade-offs across conversion, relevance, and marketplace health.

• AI Tool Fluency You use AI tools actively in your day-to-day work - to analyse, prototype, and accelerate decisions. You have intuition about where LLMs add value and where they fall short in search/ recommendation systems

• Technical Communication: Capacity to convey complex concepts - such as ranking logic, relevance algorithms, or system architecture changes - to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

• Search / recommendation experience - Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes with work around any of search retrieval/ ranking/optimizatio, recommendation systems

• Global Collaboration: Experience working with distributed teams across different geographies; English is our primary working language.

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About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

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Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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Meet the Product team

The product team is at the heart of Grab, working at the intersection of business, design, and engineering. Our secret power drives collaboration between teams and harnesses their expertise to develop the latest innovations that exceed our users’ expectations.

I started as an intern in 2014, and now I'm a Senior Product Management Leader. It's been a journey of growth and fulfilment at every turn. The best part of my internship? Landing a full-time job at Grab, but more importantly, being part of a team united by a shared purpose, learning from incredibly talented colleagues, and making a tangible difference to both consumers and driver-partners.

“ ” Daniel ChenSenior Product Management Leader, Fulfillment & Fleets

By fostering a workplace culture that prioritises inclusion and diversity, Grab is creating an environment where people from varied backgrounds can feel valued and respected, leading to a free flow of unique perspectives and experiences that can inspire greater innovation and success. This supportive and safe workplace also provides a sense of belonging for employees, which can boost morale and lead to increased productivity and collaboration.

“ ” Pamela KnaggsPMM Leader of Consumer Experiences

I’m part of the Product Team for Grab Kiosk and we are quite close. We get to collaborate with a lot of other departments and stakeholders which is great because you’re always meeting new people and making new friends. We’ve built up a really good dynamic within the team where, even though we have different roles, we’re always ready to help each other out.

“ ” Amalia MuftiSenior Product Manager

The Application Process

What can you expect when you apply for a role at Grab? Here’s what our hiring process looks like.

Step 1: Apply.

We have a range of open roles from Marketing to Engineering and everything in between. Find the one that’s best for you and show us why you’re our next teammate.

Step 2: Getting to know you.

Next, you’ll have a video or phone interview with one of our recruiters to chat about you, the role, and your past work experiences.

Step 3: Testing, testing… 123.

Some roles might require assessments and/or a technical competency interview. For other roles, there might be an additional interview – speak with your recruiter for application details.

Step 4: Is it a culture match?

Finally, we’ll find out how we fit together, if your career vision aligns with our mission, how you embody the 4 H's, and your working style and personality.

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