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Job Description
Job Description
America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Search & Discovery , to oversee the strategy and execution of optimizing how ATK customers find and engage with content across its digital platforms. This role will enhance search functionality, build engaging discovery experiences, and integrate SEO strategies to connect customers with recipes, equipment reviews, techniques, shows, and guides that meet their needs.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including editorial, engineering, design, data, and marketing, to deliver a cohesive, personalized experience that drives customer satisfaction, retention, and membership growth.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver a compelling search & discovery roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders based on customer needs and aligned with ATK’s business objectives, prioritizing initiatives based on user research, analytics, and business impact.
- Enhance ATK’s search capabilities by refining the implementation of ATK’s third-party search engine to deliver relevant, intuitive search results. You’ll work to implement and optimize sorting and filtering mechanisms, leverage personalization features and behavioral data, and continuously improve content tagging, taxonomy, and metadata to enhance search accuracy.
- Drive innovation in content discovery by reimagining ATK’s homepage and browsing experiences to inspire and guide customers to relevant content. You’ll help deliver personalized recommendations leveraging member preferences and engagement data. In addition, your job will be to empower the editorial team to curate seasonal and topical content with scalable tools.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration by partnering with editorial, engineering, design, and SEO teams to improve user journeys across platforms and with marketing to deliver integrated campaigns that enhance content discoverability. You’ll also work with data teams to monitor performance metrics and inform data-driven improvements.
- Support SEO in collaboration with SEO leadership and Editorial, implementing content-based strategies supported by optimized structured data and metadata that drive organic traffic and improve the visibility of ATK content in search engines.
Skills & Qualifications
Required
Preferred
This position is located in our Boston, MA, office in the Seaport district. It is the expectation that the person in this role will work a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in the office and 2 days per week remotely.
America’s Test Kitchen’s Digital Product Management Team
Our team is responsible for digital product development at America’s Test Kitchen. We want to understand our customers inside and out and help them use our digital platform to be better cooks. We value working collaboratively, asking for help when we need it, saying yes to trying new things, helping each other succeed, and putting our members first in everything we do. Success requires trust and risk-taking, so we practice and seek radical candor from our teammates ( have a lot of fun together and eat well!).
About America’s Test Kitchen
The mission of America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows (America’s Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and America’s Test Kitchen : The Next Generation), magazines (Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country), cookbooks, a podcast (Proof), FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK Essential Membership for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston’s Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. Fifty full-time (admittedly very meticulous) test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques. Learn more at https : / / www.americastestkitchen.com / .
Why America’s Test Kitchen :
We're passionate about cooking, and about creating the best place to work. We're small enough for your ideas to make a big impact, and large enough to offer you opportunities to grow professionally at any stage of your career. We want you to take risks and make mistakes — that's how innovation happens in our test kitchen, in our offices, and in life.
We at America’s Test Kitchen believe food media can be a powerful force for social change. We are passionate about building an inclusive workforce that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, abilities, identities, and perspectives.
We welcome your application.
