Product Manager​/Product Designer; Early Stage Focus

Product Manager / Product Designer (Early Stage Focus)

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We're a high-energy, impact-driven team, with a long track record of academic excellence. Our team includes researchers whose work has shaped the field—earning best paper awards at top AI conferences and even ranking among the most cited scientists in history of science. We've built fundamental, transformative research that has redefined the community, and now, we're here to change the world—one breakthrough at a time.

We’re looking for a Product Manager / Product Designer who thrives in early-stage environments and loves shaping something from zero-to-one. You'll be the connective tissue between our users, engineers, and researchers—guiding development toward powerful, usable AI products. This is your opportunity to help define how people interact with the next generation of intelligence.

As a Product Manager / Designer, you’ll lead the discovery, definition, design, and delivery of features that make our AI tools useful, intuitive, and sticky. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and research to prioritize the right problems, prototype quickly, and ship confidently. You’ll listen deeply to users, synthesize insights, and help drive a product roadmap that balances ambition with execution.

Must have:

• 5–12 years experience
• Worked at early stages of successful product companies (e.g. Figma, Notion, Airbnb, Canva, Instagram, Vercel)
• Experience prioritizing and shipping features that drive activation, retention, or engagement
• Strong UX design sensibility with a track record of shaping elegant, intuitive experiences
• Ability to understand technical constraints and collaborate effectively with engineering and research
• Comfort working in ambiguity and using first-principles thinking to define goals and product direction
• Skill in translating user needs and system realities into clear, practical MVPs
• Strong written and verbal communication, especially when reasoning through product decisions
• A track record of moving quickly with prototypes, experiments, and iterative learning

• AI/ML product experience: features involving models, training data, prompting, or agents
• Background in CS, data, or machine learning
• Experience with developer tools, agent-based systems, or infrastructure that supports AI applications

$100K – $300K + Equity

We offer health benefits, a 401(k) plan, and meaningful equity—because we believe top talent should be supported, secure, and fully invested in the future we’re building together.

Location:

Our company is in-office at our Seattle HQ. For this role, we are open to remote candidates with Bay Area experience, regardless of current location.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Product Management and Marketing

Software Development

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