AI Product Leader — Shape Models & Real-World Impact

Thinking Machines Lab Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is seeking multiple product leaders to turn research, models, and infrastructure into understandable, usable products.

You will shape direction, engage developers and researchers, and drive decisions from discovery through sustained adoption in a fast-paced setting. The role emphasizes technical depth in AI/ML, product judgment, and strong collaboration with research, engineering, design, and GTM teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technically complex product with measurable outcomes.
• Technical depth in AI/ML, training or inference, or production infrastructure.
• Ability to reason with engineers and researchers about constraints and tradeoffs.
• Strong product judgment and prioritization.
• Experience using customer insight and data to guide development.
• Ability to drive ambiguous work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set product direction, priorities, and success measures for your area, connecting user needs with research progress, engineering capabilities, and business opportunity.
• Build direct relationships with developers, researchers, and enterprise users. Understand their workflows, test assumptions, and distinguish individual requests from problems worth solving broadly.
• Turn ambiguous opportunities into concrete decisions: who we’re building for, what problem matters most, what to ship first, and what evidence would change our approach.
• Partner at technical depth with research and engineering. Depending on your focus, this could mean shaping model evaluations and release priorities, improving training APIs and workflows, or defining serving performance and reliability requirements.
• Define quality through real use: whether users can accomplish their tasks, improve their models, understand failures, and make informed tradeoffs between capability, speed, and cost.
• Make advanced capabilities accessible through thoughtful APIs, interfaces, documentation, examples, and product defaults, while preserving the flexibility expert users need.
• Lead work from discovery through launch and iteration, resolving dependencies and making clear decisions about scope, readiness, and tradeoffs. Partner with safety and security teams where those decisions affect access and trust.
• Connect product decisions to adoption and sustainable economics, including pricing, packaging, and the cost of delivering a dependable experience.
• Do the hands‑on work needed to move the product forward—trying a training recipe, inspecting model outputs, investigating a failed workflow, analyzing latency data, or working through a customer’s integration.

Skills

Technical depth

Product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making under uncertainty

Customer insight

Stakeholder management

Job description

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is seeking multiple product leaders to turn research, models, and infrastructure into understandable, usable products.

You will shape direction, engage developers and researchers, and drive decisions from discovery through sustained adoption in a fast-paced setting. The role emphasizes technical depth in AI/ML, product judgment, and strong collaboration with research, engineering, design, and GTM teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.