Senior Principal Product Manager

This role is based in Melbourne and requires you to work from office at least 2 days a week.

Zendesk is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager to lead product for our internal AI Platform the foundational platform that powers every AI feature across Zendesk. This platform spans the full agent lifecycle (build test publish operate improve) and provides the shared capabilities infrastructure SDK and developer tooling that all vertical AI teams build upon.

The right candidate will demonstrate strong technical product and strategic thinking with a customer-centric mindset excellent prioritization skills and flawless execution ability. You will collaborate cross-functionally to drive product vision and strategy while ensuring successful execution in this technical domain.

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Zendesks internal AI Platform a layered stack spanning foundational infrastructure through to developer-facing tooling:

  • Agent Development Kit (ADK) & SDK the primary interfaces for vertical teams to build compose and deploy AI agents including runtime protocols registry clients CLI tooling and YAML-based agent authoring.

  • Platform Capabilities durable execution agent memory CI/CD for agents A/B testing agent registry (skills tools agents guardrails) and governance across the full agent lifecycle.

  • Evaluation & Observability a layered observability stack from raw agent traces through to customer-facing evals conversation simulation QA integration and A/B testing frameworks.

  • Infrastructure orchestration (Temporal) eval tooling (BrainTrust) feature management (GrowthBook) agent sandboxing (MicroVMs FireCracker WASM) and foundational compute storage and event systems.

• Drive platform adoption across vertical AI teams meeting teams where they are and enabling progressive adoption of shared capabilities to help them meet their goals

• Lead the development of Zendesks A2A (Agent-to-Agent) layer and agent registry enabling connection reuse and governance across existing agents and applications.

• Conduct internal user research and external industry research to define a forward-thinking roadmap that sets Zendesk up to accelerate AI development in the short and long-term.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate evolving machine learning and AI platform needs into clear actionable requirements that balance innovation reliability and cost efficiency.

• Manage cross-team collaboration prioritization and trade-offs in a complex rapidly evolving AI product environment.

• 5 years of product development experience with significant experience in developer platforms AI/ML infrastructure or internal tooling at scale.

• Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts model lifecycle agent architectures distributed execution and platform engineering.

• You have a technical background and 10 yrs product management experience.

• Proven ability to drive platform adoption and developer experience for internal customers you understand what makes engineers want to use a platform vs. build their own.

• Experience leading multi-layered platform initiatives with strong strategic vision from low-level infrastructure through to developer-facing SDK/API design.

• Demonstrated success managing experimentation and evaluation platforms developer-facing APIs agent frameworks or AI developer ecosystems.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills enabling influence across engineering data science security and product teams.

• Skilled in balancing competing priorities managing ambiguity and driving consensus in complex environments.

• Passion for building scalable reliable and easy-to-use AI infrastructure products that empower internal and external users.

• Experience with building agentic features and experiences AI/ML workloads

• Background in building developer tooling SDKs CLIs registries or platform-as-a-product for internal engineering teams.

• Familiarity with multi-vendor large language model (LLM) serving platforms and failover strategies.

• Experience with AI security privacy and compliance (data guardrails filtering trust metrics)

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working enables us to purposefully come together in person at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world to connect collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

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Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer and were proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity equity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race color religion national origin age sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status medical condition ancestry disability military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law please click here.

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