Principal AI Platform TPM

This is a Principal-level IC role at an established consumer tech company (Angi, formerly Angie's List, a 30-year-old brand with global scale). It sits at the intersection of two of the hottest areas in tech right now:
AI/ML platform engineering and product management — a combination that commands top-of-market compensation.

Compensation benchmark: The $190K–$280K band is well above the median for TPM roles nationally (~$160K–$200K at Staff/Principal level) and aligns with FAANG/top-tier tech principal compensation. The addition of equity and a year-end bonus makes total comp potentially $250K–$350K+, which is competitive even against Big Tech.

• End-to-end AI platform ownership (LLM gateways, eval engines, agent governance) — among the most in-demand skills in the industry through 2026 and beyond.
• Cross-functional influence at the Principal level, a critical career lever for Director/VP transitions.
• Cost governance and ROI telemetry for AI — a nascent but rapidly formalizing discipline.

Green flags: Clear ownership scope, well-defined platform mandate, real infrastructure scale, and exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling (LiteLLM, Langfuse, KServe, Bedrock).

Yellow flags: Angi is a mature, mid-size tech company (not a hyper-growth startup), so equity upside is more moderate than early-stage. The AI platform is described as moving "from experiment to production," suggesting some organizational ambiguity remains. Candidates who thrive on greenfield builds with leadership air cover will fit better than those who prefer fully defined scope.

Overall, this is a strong career accelerator for experienced TPMs looking to specialize in the AI infrastructure space.

For over 30 years, Angi has powered the future of the home services industry, creating an environment where homeowners and pros benefit from more jobs done well.

For homeowners, our platform is a reliable way to find skilled pros. For pros, we're a reliable business partner who helps them find the winnable work they want, when they want. For employees, we're an amazing place to call home. We can't wait to welcome you.

• Founded in 1995 as Angie's List and rebranded in 2021
• Global company with 9 brands in 8 countries and employees worldwide
• Homeowners have turned to us for 300 million home projects and counting

This Principal Technical Product Manager will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the AI Platform: the shared, governed entry point every model and agent workload at Angi runs through. As generative AI moves from experiment to production across the company, this team manages the common platform with routing, cost attribution, quality evaluation, and guardrails built in rather than rebuilt by every team.

• AI Gateway & Cost Governance: Own the vision for a governed, model-agnostic gateway that all model and agent traffic routes through, with per-team and per-use-case cost attribution, flexible model routing, rate limiting, provider failover, and automatic spending caps and stop switches. Make model-swap and cost decisions changeable once at the gateway, not per service.
• Evaluation & Quality Enforcement: Define the roadmap for the eval engine and the pass/fail gate that runs on it, eval-gated prompt management with versioning and rollback, and per-agent accuracy scoring — so quality regressions are caught before they reach users rather than surfacing downstream in business metrics.
• Trust & Autonomy Ladder: Define and champion the trust-and-autonomy ladder — the thresholds, progression criteria, evidence, approvals, and rollback logic that govern when an agent earns more independence — so agentic adoption scales with…