Manfred Zabarauskas I'm an AI-native product executive with 15+ years of experience in building products and organizations that democratize the next-gen computing platforms like AI, VR, robotics and cloud. At Instagram, I lead the teams responsible for building a world-class AI search engine, that's used by billions of people every month. • 2026: building an AI-forward world-class content search engine on Instagram. • 2025: led a major quality turnaround on Instagram content search, powered by in-house AI models. • 2024: scaled the Threads Search organization, launched the first GenAI integrations on Instagram search. • 2023: launched Threads search, tags and trends helping people find and join the conversation they love. • 2022: led Instagram Search & Explore teams, helping billions of people go deep on their interests. • 2021: launched AI-powered visual search at Instagram helping users to shop for their favorite looks. • 2020: built a Shopping search and ranking organization at Instagram, launched Instagram Shopping Search. • 2019: launched new features to billions of users worldwide inspiring their curiosity on Google Search. • 2018: leveraged AI to inspire 1B+ users to learn more and do more on G
Senior Director of Product Management, Search & Conversational AI
Master's studies in software
Bachelor's studies in software
Master's studies
Bachelor's studies
