SeniorStaff Product Manager, Market Place
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Location: San Francisco CA
Company Stage of Funding: Series C AI Infrastructure Company ($10B Valuation)
Office Type: Onsite (5 Days Per Week)
Salary: $180000$300000 Equity
As a Product Manager for the Model Gateway platform youll own one of the companys most critical internal products: the shared infrastructure layer that routes every AI request across the organization. Youll define how engineering teams access frontier models optimize reliability and cost and establish the policies that allow dozens of product teams to build quickly while efficiently sharing AI infrastructure. This is a highly technical platform product role with broad organizational impact.
- Own the strategy roadmap and execution for the companys shared LLM gateway platform.
- Define product requirements for model routing priority scheduling rate limiting usage policies and access controls.
- Design scalable systems that balance latency throughput reliability and infrastructure costs across multiple AI workloads.
- Build transparent cost attribution and usage reporting that enables teams to understand and optimize model consumption.
- Partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering to translate platform constraints into scalable product capabilities.
- Develop policies that govern shared AI resources while enabling product teams to move quickly.
- Analyze usage patterns infrastructure metrics and business outcomes to prioritize platform investments.
- Align engineering finance infrastructure and product stakeholders around shared capacity planning and platform governance.
- Build dashboards write queries and prototype lightweight solutions to validate ideas and accelerate execution.
- Continuously evolve the platform as new AI models workloads and organizational needs emerge.
- 8 years of Product Management experience preferably building platform infrastructure developer or internal-facing products.
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer Machine Learning Engineer Data Scientist or other highly technical role strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems platform architecture APIs and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with AI infrastructure LLM platforms or large-scale backend systems.
- Ability to reason about system tradeoffs involving latency throughput rate limits queues quotas and reliability.
- Strong analytical skills with experience building dashboards writing SQL and using data to drive product decisions.
- Proven ability to lead highly cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering organizations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience aligning technical and business stakeholders.
- High ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive ambiguous platform initiatives.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or infrastructure products.
- Familiarity with LLM gateways model routing AI inference infrastructure or distributed compute platforms.
- Experience managing infrastructure costs unit economics and resource allocation at scale.
- Strong understanding of capacity planning workload prioritization and platform governance.
- Experience balancing technical constraints with business objectives in rapidly growing organizations.
- Startup experience building foundational platform capabilities from the ground up.
- Comfortable prototyping lightweight technical solutions using AI-assisted development tools.
- Passion for AI infrastructure platform engineering and enabling high-performing engineering organizations.
- Base salary: $180000$300000.
- Generous equity package vested over four years.
- Bi-annual performance bonus.
- Up to $15000 relocation assistance.
- $10000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- $1500 monthly meal stipend.
- Complimentary Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly wellness reimbursement.
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance.
- Opportunity to own the AI infrastructure platform that powers every product across one of the worlds fastest-growing AI companies directly influencing engineering velocity infrastructure efficiency and the future of enterprise AI development.
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