Senior Product Manager

Role

• Our first product-focused engineer
• Takes high-level direction (e.g., "analyze X") and drives to results
• Success looks like a LanceDB platform that is even more tightly focused on our ICP, and providing clarity on what engineering builds

Day-to-day

• Shape roadmap with CTO + eng leadership
• Deep dives into competitors, users, and adjacent tech
• Talk to users constantly; turn insight into product changes
• Drive cross-team decisions on priorities (eng, field, support)
• Work with engineering directly as a technically-respected peer

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years as a software engineer or in a highly technical product role
• Shipped and iterated on products end-to-end
• Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems)
• Understanding of AI researcher persona - what success looks like for them, what are their pain points, what increases their happiness
• Regularly engaged with users (interviews, support, design partners, or community)
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
• Experience influencing or driving roadmap / prioritization decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)
• Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
• Experience contributing to or working with open source communities

Why

• Help define and execute product at LanceDB
• Work directly with teams building real AI systems in production
• Sit at the center of infra + product—few roles like this exist
• High ownership, zero PM theater
• Early seat in shaping a category (AI-native data layer)
• Clear path to owning larger product scope over time