Director of Engineering, Search, Recommendations, Discovery and Distribution

📋 Description

• Lead and scale Upwork’s search, recommendations, and distribution systems.
• Technical SEO mastery: crawlability, indexing, and site architecture.
• Design high-performance, low-latency retrieval and ranking pipelines.
• Partner with product, data science, and infra to define discovery strategy.
• Lead ML-enabled collaboration and project-management teams.
• Champion AI-driven personalization with responsible model use.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years leading search, discovery, and large-scale systems.
• Deep knowledge of relevance modeling, vector retrieval, or recommender systems.
• Leadership principles: ownership, excellence, customer focus.
• Ability to drive organizational clarity and scalable processes.
• AI fluency: integrating AI into workflows and third-party tools.

🎁 Benefits

• Office presence in Toronto—3 days in office once open.
• Partner-based hiring with potential transition to Upwork.
• Competitive benefits via partner.