Staff Product Manager – AI/ML

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Job summary

Snorkel is seeking a Staff Product Manager specializing in AI/ML to lead the development of scalable AI data systems aimed at enhancing model training efficiency. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product vision and execution plans.

Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of product management experience, a strong technical background in machine learning, and a proven track record of delivering impactful product solutions. The position offers a competitive salary range of $240,000 to $300,000 per year, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager.
• Strong technical literacy across ML model development.
• Proven ability to drive deeply technical roadmaps end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable AI data systems.
• Define product vision, roadmap, and execution plans.
• Work closely with multiple teams to optimize data pipelines.

Skills

Product Management

Machine Learning

Data Pipelines

Technical Literacy

Education

Educational background in computer science or related engineering practice

Job description

Staff Product Manager – AI/ML

Lead development of scalable AI data systems to improve model training efficiency

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Compensation: $240,000 - 300,000 USD / year

Job Tags: Product

About The Role

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn't start with the model, it starts with the data.

We're on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes between 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

The Role

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Product Manager with deep AI/ML expertise to lead development across our agentic data systems, task-quality infrastructure, and data-acceleration initiatives. This role is ideal for someone with a core ML product background, strong familiarity with model development workflows, and demonstrated success delivering product experiences that improve the speed, quality, and scalability of data operations.

You will work closely with Research, Engineering, Data Operations, and Design to define product vision, roadmap, and execution plans for intelligent workflow systems that optimize data pipelines, improve annotation/task quality, and enable faster and more efficient delivery of ML-ready data.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager
• Educational background in computer science or related engineering practice
• Strong technical literacy across ML model development, data pipelines, evaluation, labeling strategies, and quality frameworks.
• Proven ability to drive deeply technical roadmaps end-to-end, from concept to launch.
• Ability to write clear PRDs, partner on research experimentation frameworks, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Experience working closely with enterprise customers and channel partners in the enterprise software industry
• Experience building internal or platform-level products with complex workflows and multi-stakeholder environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager, including 3+ years focused on ML/AI platforms, MLOps, or data systems products.
• Experience with agent-based systems, generative AI, reinforcement learning, self-improving systems, or automated workforce/task routing platforms.
• Familiarity with quality scoring mechanisms, human-in-the-loop systems, and synthetic data generation.
• Background in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or related technical field

Salary Range $240,000 - $300,000 USD

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you'll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you're looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you're fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.