Senior Product Manager, Agent Optimization
NVIDIA ยท via
Backpacker Job Board
๐ฐ $208,000 - $379,500/yr
๐ Remote
๐ Remote, California
Job Description:
- Drive product strategy and roadmaps for portfolio projects
- Set priorities, quality bars, and product outcomes with research and engineering teams
- Engage agent builders, observability and evaluation tool providers, and partners to secure early-access engagements
- Make joint research and integrations successful and turn market feedback into research directions and stronger product capabilities
- Translate research findings and techniques into usable products and features
- Define developer experience and product interfaces for open source tools
- Improve reliability, usability, documentation, benchmark coverage, and interoperability across tools
- Build adoption motion with Product Marketing, Solution Architects, and GTM teams
- Identify qualified partners and workloads, guide pilots, and create repeatable adoption playbooks
- Establish messaging and narrative for agent optimization and continuous improvement loops
- Define and inspect evidence of success across research, products, partners, open source adoption, and publications
- Own outcomes and decide what to scale, change, stop, or incubate next
Requirements:
- Bachelorโs or Masterโs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of product management or closely related experience building technically sophisticated, zero-to-one AI or developer products
- Record of turning ambiguous research or emerging technical capabilities into adopted products through partnership motion, integrations, or open source
- Technical fluency in agent architectures, observability, evaluation design, and automated experimentation techniques
- Ability to engage mature customers and ecosystem partners independently, recruit design partners, uncover production constraints, and guide GTM teams through emerging zero-to-one projects
- Positive relationship with Engineering and Research teams; ability to ask sharp questions, convert uncertainty into decisions, and support teams without prescribing implementation
- Evidence-driven product approach grounded in reproducible benchmarks, explicit success criteria, and clear judgment about supported claims
- Excellent written and verbal communication, portfolio-level prioritization, and ability to align senior technical and business leaders around a clear product narrative
- Experience building agent infrastructure, AI observability, evaluation, optimization, or developer tooling at a frontier AI lab or high-caliber startup
- Direct experience designing benchmarks, eval systems, experimentation approaches, or contributing to research publications for AI products
- Track record with open-source communities, SDKs, platform integrations, or developer ecosystems
- Hands-on familiarity building production agents and improving them on quantitative and qualitative dimensions
Benefits:
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits package