Product Manager, AI Foundations

Quick Facts

• Role: Product Manager for AI Foundations (Senior individual contributor)

• Focus areas: ML Platform and ML Understanding

Description

Lead product strategy for shared AI foundations that enable teams to develop, evaluate, and deploy models reliably and efficiently, and to improve content and user understanding. Build a multiyear vision and prioritized roadmap, connect foundational investments to consumer outcomes, and translate needs across recommendations, search, discovery, and emerging AI experiences into clear requirements. Drive measurable success through platform adoption, quality, operational efficiency, and downstream improvements.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy for shared AI foundations

• Define multiyear vision and roadmap across ML platform capabilities and content/user understanding

• Connect foundational investments to consumer outcomes

• Translate needs across product applications into requirements and investment priorities

• Guide investments in classification, taxonomies, embeddings, multimodal understanding, and user interest/intent representations

• Improve the ML development lifecycle

• Partner with engineering on data/feature access, training, inference, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring

• Establish interfaces, onboarding paths, and feedback mechanisms for broad adoption

• Lead technical tradeoffs and align leaders on sequencing and dependencies

• Define and demonstrate success with metrics across adoption, velocity, quality, and operational efficiency

Requirements

• Track record leading complex ML or AI products, especially shared platforms and/or recommendation/search domains

• Strong technical fluency across the ML lifecycle and ability to engage on architecture and investment decisions

• Experience with content understanding, classification, embeddings, or user representations and understanding their impact on product outcomes

• Product judgment linking foundational capabilities to user needs, adoption, and measurable business impact

• Ability to align multiple teams and influence senior leaders without direct authority

• Comfort defining strategy in ambiguous spaces with clear priorities and accountable execution plans

• Sound judgment on evaluation, data quality, privacy, and responsible use of content and user signals

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs

• 401k with employer match

• Global benefit programs for work, professional development, and caregiving support

• Family planning support and gender-affirming care

• Mental health and coaching benefits

• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off

• Generous paid parental leave

• Equity eligibility in the form of restricted stock units (and commission in some positions)