The Senior Product Manager will own the systems that power how recipes are created, structured, and scaled across the Hungryroot platform. This role involves driving product strategy for recipe creation workflows, taxonomy, tagging, dynamic recipe generation, and internal tools used by the culinary team. The position reports to the Senior Director of Product Management and requires close collaboration with Culinary, Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams to leverage Gen AI for scalable recipe systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for recipe systems that power assortment coverage, recipe creation, taxonomy, tagging, and dynamic recipe generation.
- Oversee the development and evolution of internal tooling that enables the culinary team to efficiently create, manage, and scale high-quality recipes.
- Leverage key performance indicators to assess the success of the recipe performance.
- Partner closely with Culinary, Engineering, Data Science, and Product Analytics to translate culinary expertise and customer insights into scalable product systems. Define requirements, drive prioritization, and deliver platform improvements that expand assortment coverage, improve recipe performance, and streamline the recipe creation lifecycle.
- Lead the development of coverage analysis frameworks that identify assortment gaps, guide recipe creation priorities, and ensure balanced coverage across customer segments, dietary needs, and operational constraints.
- Establish and evolve the recipe taxonomy, tagging standards, and data structures that power discovery, personalization, and operational execution across the platform.
- Identify structural inefficiencies in recipe workflows, tooling, and data pipelines, and lead cross-functional efforts to address root causes that limit scalability, quality, or speed of recipe development.
- Facilitate alignment and decision-making when tradeoffs arise between culinary creativity, operational feasibility, and system scalability.
- Publish structured updates and maintain clear documentation to ensure transparency around roadmap priorities, recipe system changes, and taxonomy standards.
- Continuously integrate AI-driven capabilities into recipe development, tagging, and dynamic recipe generation to accelerate content creation, improve coverage analysis, and enhance personalization at scale.
Requirements
- 4+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in content platforms, data systems, marketplace products, or operations-driven environments.
- 3+ years of hands-On SQL experience
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to structure complex content, taxonomy, and metadata frameworks that scale across multiple use cases.
- Experience partnering closely with Engineering, Data Science, Culinary and Analytics teams to build internal platforms, tooling, or data-driven product capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to use data and analysis to guide prioritization, identify gaps in coverage or performance, and translate insights into product improvements.
- Strong product judgment with the ability to balance quality, scalability, and operational constraints when building systems that support content creation or editorial workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a structured, clear approach to problem-solving and cross-functional alignment.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and driving clarity across stakeholders including culinary, analytics, engineering, and product teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with taxonomy design, content management systems, personalization systems, or AI-assisted content generation is a plus.
Technical Stack
SQL, Gen AI tools, content management systems, personalization systems, AI-assisted content generation
Benefits
- Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
- Equity
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Universal paid parental leave
- Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
- 401k with match
- A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup
Compensation
$150,000 - $189,000. Equity: Equity. Monthly Hungryroot credit for groceries, work from home stipend
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — NYC office, Remote across U.S. — Remote-first culture with flexibility to work from home, anywhere in the U.S., or from the NYC office; regular virtual team events and annual company retreat
