Manager, Mobile Engineering — Search AI Product & Mobile

● Strong grasp of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, TCA, Coordinators, etc.) and when to apply them

● Experience building and shipping features in high-traffic, data-intensive consumer apps

● Demonstrated experience with A/B experimentation on mobile — instrumentation, analysis, iteration

● Proven technical leadership: you've shaped architecture decisions, written design docs, and driven alignment across teams

● Strong understanding of mobile performance: memory management, concurrency, rendering pipeline, network stack

● Experience in search, discovery, recommendation, or feed products on mobile

We're looking for a Tech Lead Manager - Mobile, who will lead the Search API Product & Mobile team, drive the technical direction of the team and grow the team members.

The main responsibilities is leading the team to drive the Coupang business and pave the way for the future AI search experience.

● Build, grow and mentor a team of mobile engineers includign iOS and Android.

● Drive the cross team collaborations with Backend and ML teams, even cross organizations.

● Define and drive the architecture for Coupang's search and discovery features, including search results pages, query suggestions, zero-state discovery, and AI-powered recommendations

● Set technical direction for mobile-side integration of ML models (on-device inference, server-side ranking signal consumption, feature flag-gated experiments)

The Search AI Product & Mobile team sits within Coupang's Search and Discovery org. We're dedicated to crafting innovative search and discovery experiences for Coupang customers — using cutting-edge AI to empower users to navigate products with ease and find everything they need. As the mobile TLM of this team, you own one of the most critical product surfaces on Coupang's app — Search and Discovery, where 60%+ of transactions happen. We move at high velocity, work closely with ML and backend platform teams, and ship features that have direct, measurable impact on customer satisfaction and revenue.