Lead Product Manager (Identity & Apply)

ZipRecruiter

Santa Monica, United States Posted October 15, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$200,000 - $255,000

Job Description

Join ZipRecruiter as a Lead Product Manager for Identity & Apply. You will own the job seeker profile and apply flow, making decisions on what to ask job seekers, how to build an accurate picture of each person, and how to streamline the application process. You will collaborate with various teams, obsess over metrics, and run experiments to improve conversion rates. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of product management experience, a passion for user research, and a strong analytical mindset.

  • Assumer la responsabilité complète du profil du chercheur d'emploi et du flux de candidature, en définissant les KPI et en prenant des décisions éclairées sur les détails des écrans et des questions.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes de produits, d'ingénierie et de conformité pour aligner les objectifs et les exigences, en prenant des décisions éclairées sur les compromis nécessaires.
  • Concevoir et mettre en œuvre des stratégies pour améliorer la conversion des clics sur les offres d'emploi en candidatures complètes, en utilisant des données et des expériences pour guider les décisions.
  • Customer Obsession: You have a passion for speaking directly with your users and personally conducting user research
  • Funnel and Conversion Experience: You have owned a high-volume consumer flow such as onboarding, checkout, sign-up, or application, and have improved its conversion through sustained experimentation
  • Stakeholder Management: You have shipped products that depended on many teams with competing goals. You build alignment through clear writing, well-framed tradeoffs, and trust, and you are comfortable being the person who drives the decision
  • Self-Motivation: You are highly driven and thrive when given the autonomy to drive massive impact
  • Deeply Analytical: You are a data-obsessed problem solver who doesn't just look at dashboards but interrogates the "why" behind the numbers
  • Proven Leadership: 7+ years of proven success in product management, with a record of delivering results
  • Broad Technical Range: You are equally at home in a design review, an architecture discussion, and a model evaluation. You have strong UI/UX instincts for high-traffic consumer flows, you understand how shared platforms, APIs, and MCPs are built and extended, and you can reason about model quality and failure modes
  • AI/ML Fluency: You have shipped product features powered by machine learning, such as extraction, classification, ranking, or generative assistance, and you know how to evaluate them before and after launch
  • Cross-Platform Delivery: Experience shipping a single product experience across web, iOS, and Android
  • Marketplace Experience: Previous experience at a two-sided marketplace (e.g., jobs, real estate, rideshare), where your work on one side had to account for outcomes on the other
  • Profile or Identity Products: Experience building user profiles, account systems, or data collection at consumer scale, including the privacy and consent questions that come with them
  • Employer Integrations: Familiarity with applicant tracking systems or other B2B integrations, where data you collect must arrive intact in someone else's system
Required Skills
product management collaboration user research KPIs compliance onboarding A/B testing stakeholder management leadership artificial intelligence machine learning
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