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Senior Product Manager

LanceDB · hq, HQ · 10 days ago

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

Headquarters

hq

Work Location

on-site

Job Category

Business Strategy

Application Deadline

Not specified

Job Type

full-time

Experience Level

senior-level

Application Method

Apply via Website

Salary

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