ORLIN EUGENIEV DAMIANOV
Snohomish,WA
Summary
Product Manager with 9+ years of experience building AI-powered, data-intensive products across Search, Ranking, LLMs, Multimodal Models, Recommendations, and Personalization. Proven track record of platform-level impact at scale, translating advanced ML and LLM capabilities into measurable user and business outcomes. Core strengths include product strategy, roadmap ownership, experimentation, metrics-driven prioritization, and cross-functional leadership.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Product Manager, Search
WALMART.COM
Seattle, WA
01.2025 - Current
- Defined and executed the strategy and roadmap for query understanding and relevance platforms powering 97% of Walmart searches.
- Led initiatives focused on semantically ambiguous and long-tail queries with outsized impact on relevance and recall.
- Introduced agent based (Claude / Cursor) automated relevance evaluation, accelerating issue detection and improving edge queries results' quality.
- Delivered +0.5 nDCG@5 relevance lift, +0.5% Add-to-Cart, and $7M in incremental ads revenue.
Senior Product Manager, Search
GETTY IMAGES
Seattle, WA
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Led 0→1 development of LLM-powered natural language search and discovery experiences.
- Built and validated AI-driven prototypes to reduce friction and help users find relevant content with fewer queries.
- Achieved 20% conversion lift through search relevance improvements.
Senior Product Manager, Discovery & Recommendations
UPWORK
Seattle, WA
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Launched LLM-driven recommendation models powering job discovery feeds.
- Delivered a 16% lift in the north-star metric, equivalent to ~$100M in incremental revenue.
- Shipped personalization models increasing contract starts by 4%.
Senior Product Manager, Search Algorithms
OVERSTOCK.COM
Seattle, WA
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Launched a query understanding and rewriting service, driving a 3% conversion lift.
- Delivered a new search engine for a government client, improving relevance by 10% nDCG.
Senior Product Manager, Search UX
STAPLES.COM
Seattle, WA
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Launched the shop-by-store experience used by 100K+ monthly users.
- Led Ink & Toner landing page redesign and search upgrade, increasing page traffic by 20%.
Senior Program Manager, Ops / Tech Integration
AMAZON.COM
Seattle, WA
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Scoped and designed an internal software tool used across fulfillment centers.
- Supported initiatives that expanded Amazon Prime through improved operational tooling.
Associate Product Marketing Manager
FMC CORPORATION
Philadelphia, PA
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Proposed and implemented social media listening as a B2B marketing strategy.
- Insights helped protect $5M in annual business.
Education
MBA - undefined
B.S. - Industrial Engineering (Applied Mechanics)
Websites
Timeline
Principal Product Manager, Search - WALMART.COM
01.2025 - Current
Senior Product Manager, Search - GETTY IMAGES
01.2024 - 01.2025
Senior Product Manager, Discovery & Recommendations - UPWORK
01.2022 - 01.2024
Senior Product Manager, Search Algorithms - OVERSTOCK.COM
01.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Product Manager, Search UX - STAPLES.COM
01.2016 - 01.2020
Senior Program Manager, Ops / Tech Integration - AMAZON.COM
01.2015 - 01.2016
Associate Product Marketing Manager - FMC CORPORATION
01.2013 - 01.2015
University of Michigan - Ross School of Business - MBA,
Universidad Católica de Chile - B.S., Industrial Engineering (Applied Mechanics)