Senior Product Manager at LanceDB
United States
$180k - $250k
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Role</code></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Takes high-level direction (e.g., "analyze X") and drives to results across the company</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Success looks like a LanceDB platform that is even more tightly focused on our ICP, and providing clarity on what engineering builds</code></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong><br /></strong><code>Day-to-day</code></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Shape roadmap with CTO + eng leadership</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Deep dives into competitors, users, and adjacent tech</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Talk to users constantly; turn insight into product changes</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Drive cross-team decisions on priorities (eng, field, support)</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Work with engineering directly as a technically-respected peer</code></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><code>Qualifications</code></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>10+ years as a software engineer or in a highly technical product role</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Shipped and iterated on products end-to-end</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems)</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Understanding of AI researcher persona - what success looks like for them, what are their pain points, what increases their happiness</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Regularly engaged with users (interviews, support, design partners, or community)</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Experience influencing or driving roadmap / prioritization decisions</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Experience contributing to or working with open source communities</code></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br /><code>Why</code></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Help define and execute product at LanceDB</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Work directly with teams building real AI systems in production</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Sit at the center of infra + product—few roles like this exist</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>High ownership, zero PM theater</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Early seat in shaping a category (AI-native data layer)</code></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Clear path to owning larger product scope over time</code></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>Please apply for this role only if you meet all of the above qualifications, and agree with the day-to-day responsibilities.</code></p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>About LanceDB</code></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><code>LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data platform for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI workloads.</code></p>
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