Staff Product Manager

Orion; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 123,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Parental leave

401(k) match

Pet benefits

Student loan repayment

Job summary

Orion is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the pillar with a hands-on, player-coach approach. This role ships complex features, mentors a small PM team, and defines a bold AI-forward product vision under the GM.

You will drive end-to-end discovery and collaborate with engineering leadership on architecture and platform investments. The ideal candidate has senior IC product experience, strong AI fluency, and a proven track record of shipping at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in product management or product engineering with increasing scope.
• Experience in AI-forward or technically deep product roles.

Responsibilities

• Own platform-level bets and high-leverage problems.
• Ship PRDs, prototypes, and post-launch analyses to high quality.
• Build AI-native workflows and publish team standards.
• Align pillar direction with GM strategy and product vision.
• Lead end-to-end discovery with customer interviews and data analysis.
• Mentor 3–6 peer PMs and raise AI fluency in the team.
• Lead cross-pillar initiatives and executive reviews.

Skills

Senior IC PM

AI fluency

SQL proficiency

APIs

Written communication

Discovery craft

Mentorship

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

10+ years in PM/engineering

AI-forward product experience

Job description

The Staff Product Manager is Orion's most senior individual contributor track in product. This is a player-coach role: a Staff PM raises the bar through their own craft — shipping the hardest problems themselves, modeling AI-native product development, and actively mentoring a small group of peer PMs — without carrying direct reports. Staff PMs sit directly under a GM, signaling that builders have a first-class path to the most senior levels of product leadership.

Essential Functions Of The Job

• Own the highest-leverage, ambiguous, or hardest-to-solve problems in the pillar — the platform-level bets and the initiatives where the outcome matters most
• Personally ship the work: PRDs, prototypes, shipped features, customer research synthesis, and post-launch analyses — at the quality bar the rest of the team calibrates against
• Build and deploy AI-native workflows: prototype in AI coding tools, run discovery and synthesis through LLMs, ship internal agents that eliminate repetitive work, and publish those workflows as team standards
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical direction for the pillar — data contracts, AI/model integration decisions, platform investments
• Translate GM-level strategy into a crisp, opinionated product vision for the pillar; set the product quality bar the team works against
• Run end-to-end discovery: customer interviews, data analysis, competitive research, opportunity sizing — AI-accelerated at every stage
• Lead cross-pillar initiatives that touch more than one product, where a senior IC perspective is more valuable than a management handoff
• Represent the pillar in customer executive conversations, industry forums, and cross-functional executive reviews

Player-Coach Responsibilities (no Direct Reports)

• Mentor 3–6 peer PMs through weekly 1:1s, PRD reviews, shadowing on discovery calls, and pair-shipping on hard problems
• Raise the team's AI fluency: teach AI-native workflows, maintain the pillar's prompt and agent library, review AI-generated artifacts for quality
• Own the hiring bar for the pillar's PM hires; lead technical interview loops and make hire/no-hire calls alongside the GM
• Be the person peers escape to when stuck — unblock them and make the call on hard tradeoffs
• Model operating norms (documentation, async comms, meeting hygiene) that keep the team flat and fast

Skills

• Proven track record of shipping successful products at senior IC level
• Deep, demonstrable AI fluency — has built features powered by LLMs, ships prototypes in modern AI coding tools, understands eval frameworks, cost tradeoffs, and agent architectures; this is not "has used ChatGPT"
• Strong technical instincts — reads code, writes SQL, works fluently with APIs, holds substantive conversations with senior engineers
• World-class written communication; writes the clearest PRD in the room
• Mastery of discovery craft — customer interviews, competitive teardowns, data analysis, synthesis
• Evidence of raising the bar for teammates (mentorship outcomes, artifacts adopted as team standards, successful hires championed)
• Comfort with ambiguity and a strong bias to ship

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years in product management or product engineering, with clear evidence of increasing scope and complexity
• At least one tour in a heavily AI-forward or technically deep product role

KPIs

• Pillar outcomes directly driven (revenue, retention, activation, or NPS on owned surfaces) — targets set with GM; trend positive QoQ
• AI leverage index (features shipped per engineer on the pillar) — top quartile vs. company benchmark
• Peer PM growth — ≥ 2 mentees per year with documented scope expansion, promotion, or new surface ownership
• Hiring bar — offers extended by this Staff PM that accept and are performing well at the 12-month mark — ≥ 80%
• Artifacts adopted — PRDs, prompts, agents, or frameworks built by this PM and adopted by other PMs on the team — ≥ 4 per year
• Customer-evidenced initiatives — ≥ 80% of work led has pre-launch validated customer evidence

Recommended Skills

Salary Range:

$123,491.00 - $196,279.00

The pay listed in this posting indicates the estimated pay at the time of this posting; however, may vary depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, Orion offers a competitive benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, and disability coverage on day one, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid parental leave, pet benefits including pawternity leave and pet insurance, student loan repayment and more.

About Us

At Orion, we achieve our best work when we support one another, staying personally accountable to each other and the clients we serve. We create a welcoming environment where everyone is respected, valued, and heard. Our commitment to create raving fans ensures we consistently exceed client expectations. Thinking differently is in our DNA—we innovate always, push boundaries, and reject the status quo to deliver transformative outcomes. Together, we support one another and see it through to success, driving our collective achievements and those of our clients.