Product Manager, Models

Venice is the world's leading consumer AI company built on principles of privacy, free speech, and user sovereignty.

We're building the Port City of AI, in which millions of individuals, third party apps, and AI agents gather, interact, and access sophisticated AI resources on a private and permissive foundation. Our mission is to make artificial intelligence approachable and useful in everyday work—bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and practical, real-world impact.

We're a fast-moving startup where every team member is expected to make a clear impact. Our culture is rooted in curiosity, ownership, ethical principle, philosophy, and collaboration—whether we're designing better AI workflows, supporting our growing community, or shaping the future of human-AI interaction.

Joining Venice AI means joining a team of unorthodox builders who believe in moving quickly, delivering a beautiful mass-market and highly useful consumer product that doesn't spy on people or censor their ideas and questions., and maintaining an edge in the rapidly evolving world of agentic machine intelligence. If you're energized by big ideas, entrepreneurial spirit, individual empowerment, and the opportunity to help shape a fast-growing company in the world's hottest industry from the ground up, please reach out.you'll

feel right at home here.

Our models aren't features — they're the core product. Today, decisions about portfolio composition, inference performance, model configuration, and lifecycle management are distributed across teams with no single accountable owner.

We're hiring a Product Manager, Models to be that single owner of the model portfolio across all of Venice's products: selection, reliability, configuration, and lifecycle management. This is not an ML research role;
Venice doesn't train models. You will treat models as SKUs: making strategic calls about what to offer, how to position each one, and how to deliver the best experience across every Venice product. Your stakeholders are Venice's external-facing products, and you are their central point of contact for a robust and reliable model lineup. You'll stay on top of the industry — which models are launching, which are highly anticipated, which excel at which use cases — and recommend internally what Venice should support.

You are the single source of truth for everything the company needs to know about every model that exists and the owner of this internally-serving product.

This role reports to the VP of Business Operations and works closely with product managers, engineering, marketing, and the leadership team. Your job is to ensure the models Venice offers are everything users could want — including the guidance and information they need to confidently choose the right model for the job.

• Own the model portfolio, end to end. Decide which models live on the platform — and which don't. Define tiering across free, Pro, Pro Plus, Max, and maintain the offerings matrix by product line (Chat, API, Studio). Curate thoughtfully: the goal is a portfolio that is all-encompassing, tailored to the user base, and easy-to-use.
• Build the models-as-product operating system. Establish launch processes including pre-release testing, configuration review, documentation, and launch communication. Define config standards, uptime SLAs, deprecation policies, and runbooks. Model metadata and discovery should be accessible and consistent.
• Drive reliability. Define health standards for every model tier. Monitor uptime and fallback performance, triage incidents, lead post-mortems, and ensure load-bearing models have appropriate provider redundancy. Instrument the dashboards that matter: TTFT, TPOT, cache hit rates.
• Identify…