Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Weedmaps is a global leader in the cannabis industry, dedicated to transparency, education, and community. They are seeking a Staff Product Manager focused on Personalization to define the vision and strategy for delivering tailored experiences across their platform, partnering with ML and AI teams to enhance personalization capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Define a roadmap that achieves a world-class personalization strategy, delivering relevant and tailored experiences across the Weedmaps platform
- Partner with ML and AI teams to build and scale personalization capabilities, including product recommendations, personalized search ranking, and AI-powered features
- Translate business goals and customer needs into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap
- Maintain and prioritize a backlog, ensuring new features and enhancements are validated and clearly specified
- Lead a cross-functional team to implement the personalization vision efficiently, aligning stakeholders across product, engineering, data science, and design
- Monitor adoption, engagement, and revenue impact of personalization features and report on release performance as necessary
- Collaborate with product, program, and engineering leaders across the organization to guide the platform roadmap, pinpointing new opportunities for personalization at scale
- Oversee enterprise-level product planning including identifying new personalization opportunities and incorporating a rolling roadmap of business projects and technology initiatives
- Write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents, ensuring clear communication to business, design, and development teams
- Engage with customers through a variety of channels and serve as the voice of the customer internally, using insights to inform personalization strategy
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of product management experience in a technological industry
- Proven track record of operating at a staff or principal level, driving product strategy across multiple teams or domains
- Deep data background using self-service analytics tooling (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, etc.)
- Experience working with ML/AI teams to build and ship personalization systems, recommendation engines, or intelligent ranking models
- 4+ years experience in consumer-facing online commerce, point-of-sale, or marketplace environments
- 2+ years experience owning a personalization, search, or ML-powered product stack at scale
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive org-wide alignment on complex, ambiguous problems
- Strong strategic aptitude with a proven ability to define a winning product vision and roadmap, particularly in personalization, recommendations, or AI-powered product domains
- Deep customer empathy and experience intuition; demonstrated success building tailored, intelligent user experiences that drive engagement and retention
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills; proven ability to build executive buy-in for bold, long-term bets in emerging AI/ML product spaces
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with a bias toward data-driven decision making, including comfort with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and ML model evaluation
- Ability to translate personalization strategy into detailed, actionable product requirements that bridge business goals and ML/AI capabilities
- High technical fluency; comfortable engaging deeply with ML engineers and data scientists on model tradeoffs, feature pipelines, data infrastructure, and system architecture
- Proven ability to navigate build vs. buy vs. partner decisions for AI/ML capabilities, balancing customer impact with speed to market
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity; able to define structure and drive progress on complex, cross-functional initiatives without a clear playbook
- Strong bias for action with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Proven ability to lead and align cross-functional teams — including engineering, data science, design, and marketing — through influence rather than direct authority
- Familiarity with modern AI/ML development workflows, including experience working in agile environments with data science and ML engineering teams
Benefits
- Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- 100% employer-paid premium for employees
- Up to 80% coverage for dependents
- Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
- 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
- Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
- Supplemental, voluntary benefits
- Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
- FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Legal access to a network of attorneys
- PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
- Paid parental leave
Company Overview
Weedmaps is the world's first marijuana technology and media brand. It is a sub-organization of Weedmaps. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://weedmaps.com.