What you’ll do

As a Technical Product Manager for our Search Platform, you will oversee the development, optimization, and innovation of our search functionalities across all of our banners, including Canadian Tire, Sportchek, and Marks, both online and in-store. Your role will be vital in driving the user experience and improving search accuracy by leveraging machine learning, data analysis, and A/B testing.

You will be joining Canadian Tire at a pivotal time, as you will be shaping the future roadmap of our Search Platform for years to come.

• Search Expertise: Be the Search SME at Canadian Tire and guide product development to ensure best-in-class search experiences.

• API Development: Understanding of APIs and how they work, and ability to collaborate with the technical teams to ensure solutions designed meet the customer needs.

• Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute the search strategy and roadmap for the search platform, aligning it with business goals and customer needs.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, data syndication, merchandizing, other product managers and UX/UI to deliver high-quality search solutions.

• ML Integration: Collaborate with data scientists to integrate advanced machine learning models that enhance search relevance and personalization.

• Performance Monitoring & Data Analysis: Continuously monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), user behavior data, and feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.

• A/B Testing: Help design, implement, and analyze A/B tests to optimize search features and ensure data-driven decision making.

• eCommerce Merchandising: Support the eComm merchandising team to achieve their business objectives by being the Search & Merchandizing SME.

• Agile Development: Lead agile development processes by writing clear user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and ensuring timely delivery of product increments.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in search technology to continuously evolve our platform.

What you bring

• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience, with at least 3 years focused on search technologies.

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in the eComm retail search space.

• Strong understanding of machine learning principles and their application in enhancing search functionality.

• Proficiency in data analysis techniques and tools.

• Hands-on experience with A/B testing methodologies and tools.

• Proven expertise in search relevance & ranking optimization, personalization and predictive search technologies.

• Experience with API development and management.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a customer-centric mindset.

• Experience working in Agile methodologies. SAFe agile is a plus.

• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence applications in eCommerce, including LLM & conversational search is an asset.

• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis is an asset.

• Experience in fitted automotive search is an asset.

  We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.