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Principal Product Manager for AI Custom Models

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You will define product strategy and roadmaps for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities. You will lead discovery, prioritization, and delivery for model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration. You will translate customer and technical needs into clear requirements, guide trade-off decisions, align stakeholders, and communicate priorities asynchronously.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product strategy and roadmap definition for custom models and self-hosted AI capabilities.
  • Drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery for model flexibility, self-managed deployments, and AI agent orchestration.
  • Collaborate with engineering, design, and product leaders to translate customer and technical needs into product direction.
  • Define product requirements for infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and hardware considerations.
  • Align this product area with broader platform strategy.
  • Guide trade-off decisions based on customer value, technical feasibility, and platform quality.
  • Support knowledge transfer and continuity as the team evolves.
  • Communicate plans, decisions, and priorities transparently for asynchronous execution.

Requirements

  • Experience owning product strategy for technical platform, infrastructure, or AI-driven products.
  • Knowledge of AI model ecosystems, including custom, open, or open-weight models.
  • Familiarity with self-hosted or self-managed software and customer operational needs.
  • Ability to work with engineers on configuration, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and hardware constraints.
  • Experience leading complex product work with multiple stakeholders and technical ambiguity.
  • Written and verbal communication skills in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
  • Ability to operate at principal scope across strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.

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