Staff Product Manager

Staff Product Manager

The Staff Product Manager is Orion's most senior individual contributor track in product. This is a player‑coach role: a Staff PM raises the bar through their own craft — shipping the hardest problems themselves, modeling AI‑native product development, and actively mentoring a small group of peer PMs — without carrying direct reports. Staff PMs sit directly under a GM, signaling that builders have a first‑class path to the most senior levels of product leadership.

• Own the highest‑leverage, ambiguous, or hardest‑to‑solve problems in the pillar — the platform‑level bets and the initiatives where the outcome matters most
• Personally ship the work: PRDs, prototypes, shipped features, customer research synthesis, and post‑launch analyses — at the quality bar the rest of the team calibrates against
• Build and deploy AI‑native workflows: prototype in AI coding tools, run discovery and synthesis through LLMs, ship internal agents that eliminate repetitive work, and publish those workflows as team standards
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical direction for the pillar — data contracts, AI/model integration decisions, platform investments
• Translate GM‑level strategy into a crisp, opinionated product vision for the pillar; set the product quality bar the team works against
• Run end‑to‑end discovery: customer interviews, data analysis, competitive research, opportunity sizing — AI‑accelerated at every stage
• Lead cross‑pillar initiatives that touch more than one product, where a senior IC perspective is more valuable than a management handoff
• Represent the pillar in customer executive conversations, industry forums, and cross‑functional executive reviews
• Model operating norms (documentation, async comms, meeting hygiene) that keep the team flat and fast

• Mentor 3–6 peer PMs through weekly 1:1s, PRD reviews, shadowing on discovery calls, and pair‑shipping on hard problems
• Raise the team's AI fluency: teach AI‑native workflows, maintain the pillar's prompt and agent library, review AI‑generated artifacts for quality
• Own the hiring bar for the pillar's PM hires; lead technical interview loops and make hire/no‑hire calls alongside the GM
• Be the person peers escape to when stuck — unblock them and make the call on hard tradeoffs
• Model operating norms (documentation, async comms, meeting hygiene) that keep the team flat and fast

• Proven track record of shipping successful products at senior IC level
• Deep, demonstrable AI fluency — has built features powered by LLMs, ships prototypes in modern AI coding tools, understands eval frameworks, cost tradeoffs, and agent architectures; this is not "has used ChatGPT"
• Strong technical instincts — reads code, writes SQL, works fluently with APIs, holds substantive conversations with senior engineers
• World‑class written communication; writes the clearest PRD in the room
• Mastery of discovery craft — customer interviews, competitive teardowns, data analysis, synthesis
• Evidence of raising the bar for teammates (mentorship outcomes, artifacts adopted as team standards, successful hires championed)
• Comfort with ambiguity and a strong bias to ship

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years in product management or product engineering, with clear evidence of increasing scope and complexity
• At least one tour in a heavily AI‑forward or technically deep product role

• Pillar outcomes directly driven (revenue, retention, activation, or NPS on owned surfaces) — targets set with GM; trend positive QoQ
• AI leverage index (features shipped per engineer on the pillar) — top quartile vs. company benchmark
• Peer PM growth — ≥ 2 mentees per year with documented scope expansion, promotion, or new surface ownership
• Hiring bar — offers extended by this Staff PM that accept and are performing well at the 12‑month mark — ≥ 80%
• Artifacts adopted — PRDs, prompts, agents, or frameworks built by this PM and adopted by other PMs on the team — ≥ 4 per year
• Customer‑evidenced initiatives — ≥ 80% of work led has pre‑launch validated customer evidence

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