Senior Product Manager, Discourse Graphs — Remote

Astera Institute; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours and remote work

Astera health/vision/dental benefits

Onboarding assistance from peer teams

Job summary

Astera Institute seeks a Senior Product Manager for the Discourse Graphs team. This fully remote, fixed-term role spans 12 to 18 months with a salary between $110,000 and $195,000 per year, depending on location.

The project focuses on open-source research tooling with a distributed North America–Europe–India team and in‑person options in Emeryville, CA. You will shape strategy across product direction, prioritize work with founders, and work closely with researchers, designers, and engineers in

Qualifications

• Comfort soliciting and navigating user input within documented user flows.
• Weekly user conversations and showing ideas as prototypes.
• Work alongside designers and engineers rather than handing off tasks.
• Experience working without a manager and keeping others informed in writing.

Responsibilities

• Shape product strategy with founders and prioritize initiatives.
• Create one ordered queue of work with the designer and developers.
• Deliver prototypes and write-ups to communicate concepts.
• Coordinate across time zones and manage no-manager dynamics.

Skills

User research

Weekly user feedback

Cross-functional collaboration

Independent working

Pair programming

Tools

Roam Research

Obsidian

Job description

Astera Institute seeks a Senior Product Manager for the Discourse Graphs team. This fully remote, fixed-term role spans 12 to 18 months with a salary between $110,000 and $195,000 per year, depending on location.

The project focuses on open-source research tooling with a distributed North America–Europe–India team and in‑person options in Emeryville, CA. You will shape strategy across product direction, prioritize work with founders, and work closely with researchers, designers, and engineers in