Product Manager, Training

Fireworks; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks seeks a Product Manager to shape training-focused products that power enterprise AI. You will work across API, UI, and CLI, partnering with customers running real tuning jobs to translate bespoke work into scalable features.

With 2–8+ years in product management and a strong technical background, you’ll influence strategy, specs, and launches for enterprise users, balancing cost, performance, and usability while thriving in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• 2–8+ years of product management experience building technical or developer-facing products (multiple levels).
• Strong technical background — CS/EE degree or equivalent depth earned on the job.
• Familiarity with post-training lifecycle: dataset curation, SFT, LoRA/PEFT, RL-based methods, evaluation, and production inference.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product area end to end from strategy, spec, launch, to metrics.
• Excellent written communication; able to write specs, launch posts, and customer-facing tradeoffs clearly.
• Comfort with ambiguity and bias toward shipping and learning.
• Willingness to step up during wartime periods and tough challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, strategy, and success metrics for parts of the Fireworks training product across API, UI, and CLI.
• Collaborate with AI-native startups and enterprises running real training workloads to unblock and evolve product capabilities.
• Turn bespoke work by forward-deployed teams into scalable, self-serve product.
• Partner with product marketing, sales, and field to launch training capabilities with pricing, docs, and enablement.

Skills

Product management

Technical background

Written communication

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Startup experience

Customer-facing communication

Education

CS/EE degree

Tools

ML platform

MLOps

Eval tooling

Model registries

RL fine-tuning workflows

Job description

About Us:

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that’s building the future of enterprise AI.

THE ROLE:

Fireworks is building specialized intelligence to enable companies to own their AI with frontier-beating quality and efficiency. Training is at the core of how they get there. As a PM working on training, you’ll help set strategy, write specs, sit with customers running real tuning jobs, and work across our training, research, and inference teams to deliver real customer impact. Example problems you may work on include determining how to grow our self-serve training usage or making training easier and faster for our enterprise users.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the roadmap, strategy, and success metrics for parts of the Fireworks training product, across API, UI, and CLI.

• Work directly with AI-native startups and enterprises running real training workloads — watch them work, unblock them whey they stall, and convert repeated pain into productized capability.

• Turn the bespoke work our forward-deployed and applied ML teams do for top accounts into scalable, self-serve product.

• Partner with product marketing, sales, and the field to launch training capabilities that land — pricing and packaging, docs, cookbooks, and enablement included.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 2 – 8+ years of product management experience building technical or developer-facing products (we are hiring at multiple levels for this role).

• Strong technical background — CS/EE degree, production engineering experience, or equivalent depth earned on the job.

• Familiarity with the post-training lifecycle: dataset curation, SFT, LoRA/PEFT, RL-based methods, evaluation, and how these connect to inference in production.

• Demonstrated ownership of a product area end to end from strategy, spec, launch, to metrics.

• Excellent written communication. You can write a spec, a launch post, and a customer-facing explanation of a tradeoff, and all three will be clear.

• Comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward shipping and learning over waiting for certainty.

• Deep hunger and motivation. This isn’t a 9-5 job and you’ll be expected to step up, especially during periods of “wartime.”

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• You’ve personally fine-tuned models and shipped the result into something real.

• Experience with ML platform, MLOps, or AI infrastructure products — training platforms, eval tooling, or model registries.

• Familiarity with reinforcement fine-tuning specifics: reward modeling, rollout environments, and agent-training workflows.

• Understanding of GPU economics and how training cost, throughput, and quality trade off against each other.

• Open-source or developer-community experience — you know what makes an SDK or API feel good to use.

• Early startup or founding experience.

Why Fireworks?

• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.

• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.

• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.

• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.