Senior/Principal Strategy Product Manager - AI Coding Product

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

ByteDance in the United States is seeking a Product Manager for Model Strategy & Product to shape how our coding and AI-assisted development tools behave, from code generation to debugging, within real developer pipelines.

You will map high-value developer scenarios to capability roadmaps, talk to internal and external developers, and collaborate with research, engineering, and eval teams to drive measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• Passionate about AI and developer tools with strong intuition for how engineers build software.
• Strong signal-gathering across research, tools, prototypes, and developer interviews.
• Structured thinker who can turn ambiguous problems into clear metrics and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Track frontier research & product advancements in LLMs and code generation across market competitors.
• Identify high-value developer scenarios (e.g., code synthesis, debugging, tests, refactoring, full-stack app building) and translate them into a capability roadmap.
• Talk to real developers (internal and external) to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and model failure cases.
• Define model eval standards across languages, tooling coverage, complexity, and correctness (e.g., unit/test frameworks, fuzzing, static analysis).
• Work closely with research, engineering, and eval teams to drive model improvements with measurable impact.

Skills

AI product sense

Developer tools

Structured thinking

Stakeholder interviewing

Job description

Responsibilities

We are the Model Strategy & Product team, connecting Seed with developers and enterprises. Our team drives impact in two key directions:
1. We identify high-value needs from developers and enterprise applications, define evaluation frameworks, and guide model capabilities toward AGI.
2. We start from model capabilities to uncover unlockable use cases, lead go-to-market (GTM) efforts, and bring AI into real-world applications across industries.

We’re looking for a PM who understands developers and loves thinking about how AI can build software. You’ll define how our coding model behaves, where it should excel, and how it integrates into real developer pipelines—from generating code to debugging, refactoring, and so forth.

Responsibilities

• Track frontier research & product advancements in LLMs and code generation across market competitors.
• Identify high-value developer scenarios (e.g., code synthesis, debugging, tests, refactoring, full-stack app building) and translate them into a capability roadmap.
• Talk to real developers (internal and external) to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and model failure cases.
• Define model eval standards across languages, tooling coverage, complexity, and correctness (e.g., unit/test frameworks, fuzzing, static analysis).
• Work closely with research, engineering, and eval teams to drive model improvements with measurable impact.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passionate about AI and developer tools, with strong intuition for how engineers build software in the real world.
• Strong signal-gathering instincts across research, tools, prototypes, competitive products, and developer interviews.
• Structured thinker who can turn ambiguous problems into clear metrics, milestones, and decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in developer tools/enterprise productivity is a plus.
• Experience in software engineering or hands-on development experience is a strong plus.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $185600 - $374000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• Exercising sound judgment.