As a Discovery And Personalization Manager, you’ll design and shape what users see on the DeviantArt network. You’ll be tasked with a dual mission: grow discovery and engagement through relevant and engaging recommendations for a rich and holistic browsing experience, while safeguarding quality and network health. This role involves significant collaboration with remote teams, primarily in Vancouver, Canada. Central to your success will be the ability to close the feedback loop — bridging the gap between human taste and machine learning.
In your day-to-day, you will
Lead the directional framework and principles for content consumption across the network, working collaboratively to balance conflicting KPIs and metrics with stakeholders.
Design comprehensive offline and online evaluation frameworks and set guidelines for content discovery and recommendations by translating community insights and human taste into inputs that inform scalable machine learning signals.
Collaborate with ML teams to bridge the gap between high-level "quality" definitions and low-level feature engineering, ensuring models capture nuances like artistic style, medium, and technical execution while delivering on network KPIs.
Translate user consumption needs into product requirements and help plan the product roadmap to meet those needs.