Senior Engineering Manager - Discovery

About Faire Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours. About the Role: The Discovery Experience team at Faire sits at the intersection of search, evaluate, and personalization — shaping how retailers find the products they love. Our mission is to build the most intuitive, intelligent, and delightful discovery experience in wholesale: one that feels less like a search engine and more like a trusted merchant with an encyclopedic knowledge of what's in stock and what will sell. We're looking for an experienced leader to lead our Discovery Experience team. In this role, you will partner closely with product, design, and machine learning teams to craft search and discovery experiences that are fast, relevant, and deeply personalized. You bring a strong point of view on what great search UX looks like, you believe AI is transforming how people find things, and you're excited to build at that frontier. You will own a critical part of the discovery experience, spanning search, recommendations, and Gen-AI experience that drives a meaningful share of marketplace engagement, conversion, and retailer success. This role sits at the center of some of Faire’s most important product and technical challenges: building high-scale, low-latency systems that help retailers navigate millions of products with speed, relevance, and trust, while pushing the frontier of AI-powered discovery. As a leader in Discovery, you will shape not only team execution, but also the longer-term technical and organizational direction of discovery at Faire — influencing strategy across product engineering, ML, and infrastructure. You’ll help unify retrieval, ranking, personalization, and UX into a cohesive system, while enabling fast experimentation and measurable business impact. What You'll Do: Define and execute the technical vision for Faire's discovery experience, spanning search UX, recommendations, and AI-powered discovery, ensuring every retailer can effortlessly find what they're looking for. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers focused on the retailer-facing discovery surface, fostering a culture of craft, ownership, and continuous learning. Drive the integration of Algo and AI/LLM-powered capabilities into the discovery experience — from natural language search to intelligent query understanding and personalized results. Partner with product and design to raise the bar on search UX, ensuring the experience is intuitive, accessible, and optimized for how retailers actually shop. Enable rapid experimentation across discovery surfaces, working closely with ML teams to iterate on ranking, surfacing, and personalization. Champion observability and quality across the discovery stack, building the right instrumentation to understand user behavior and proactively improve the experience. Drive cross-functional collaboration across relevance, ML, infrastructure, and product engineering to deliver cohesive, end-to-end discovery improvements. Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent, fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe team culture that encourages bold ideas and diverse perspectives. Work closely with leadership to align discovery investments with Faire's growth strategy and marketplace prioritie