Principal Product Manager, AI Agents & MCP

Amplitude; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 265,000 - 398,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipends

Parental benefits

ESPP

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Amplitude, the leading AI analytics platform, is seeking a product lead for its agentic surface area based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will set strategy and vision, and lead design and engineering to deliver innovative AI agent products while serving as the company’s thought leader on agentic initiatives.

You will partner with sales and customer teams to understand workflows, define priorities for the next 12–24 months, and build MCP capabilities so customers can work from coding agents,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience
• 3+ years building AI/ML products with hands-on work on agentic products
• Fluency in latest LLM trends and tools, understanding context management, latency, eval methods, failure modes
• Experience building systems that measure product improvement over time
• Track record delivering complex initiatives with engineering and design
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and rapid change with evolving roadmaps
• History of setting ambitious goals and delivering with clear strategy and execution

Responsibilities

• Define the direction for Amplitude's agents and MCP surfaces over 12–24 months
• Own the product vision for AI agents to drive insights, decisions, and actions
• Advance MCP capabilities to enable coding agent, CLI, IDE, and UI workflows
• Create evals, quality standards, and feedback to measure customer value
• Talk with customers to identify new opportunities and use cases for AI agents
• Partner with field organization to position, demo, and support AI Agent products
• Serve as a thought leader on agentic products and best practices

Skills

Product management

AI/ML

LLM trends

Cross-functional leadership

Context management

Job description

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

About The Role & Team

Agentic Amplitude is the team that’s responsible for Amplitude's AI agent strategy. The team shipped the Amplitude Global Agent, Custom agents, and our MCP surface, and continues to deliver new products at a fast pace.

The team is small, moves fast and thrives on curiosity, autonomy, and strong cross-functional partnership. We operate with a bias toward rapid iteration and refine our approach as the underlying technology and models advance.

This role is the product lead for this surface area. The successful candidate will set the strategy and vision and lead the design and engineering teams to deliver new innovations, while serving as the company’s thought leader on agentic products.

Responsibilities

• Define the direction for Amplitude's agents and MCP surfaces over the next 12 to 24 months, and determine the priorities that will guide investment.
• Own the product vision for how AI agents help our customers to get to insights faster, make decisions with greater confidence, and take the right actions to improve their products.
• Advance our MCP capabilities so that customers can work with Amplitude from their coding agent, CLI, or IDE, in addition to our own user interface.
• Create the evals, quality standards, and feedback mechanisms required to measure customer value and iterate on the agent experience.
• Talk regularly with customers to understand their workflows and identify new opportunities and use cases for AI agents to deliver value.
• Partner closely with the field organization to enable them to position, demo, and support AI Agent products effectively.
• Serve as a thought leader on agentic products, establishing best practices both internally and with customers.

Measures of Success

• A clear and inspiring agent and MCP strategy that leadership and the field organization can articulate consistently.
• Increased adoption of existing agents and MCP capabilities, complemented by new agentic products that address emerging customer needs.
• Broad MCP adoption within customer workflows outside the Amplitude user interface.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, including taking 0-to-1 products from concept through delivery.
• 3+ years building products on AI/ML technologies, with recent hands‑on experience in delivering agentic products
• Fluency in the latest LLM trends, models, and tools, with a strong understanding of context management, latency, eval methods, and common failure modes.
• Experience building systems that measure whether a probabilistic product is getting better over time.
• A demonstrated record of executing complex initiatives in close partnership with engineering and design.
• Comfort operating amid ambiguity, rapid change, and a roadmap that evolves alongside the technology.
• A consistent history of setting ambitious goals and achieving them through clear strategy, disciplined execution, and effective collaboration.

Our Values

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
• Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
• Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

We care about the well‑being of our team

We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well‑being of our Ampliteers.

Some Of Our Benefit Programs Include

• Excellent M edical, D ental and V ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
• Flexible time off, p aid holidays, and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including : 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other Fun Facts About Amplitude

• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

SF ROLES ONLY: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $265,000 - $398,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $265,000 - $398,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

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