Technical Product Manager, Data Platform for ML — SF

Chalk; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

15 holidays per year

15 days personal time off

Lunch and dinner provided

Office snacks and drinks

Uber/Lyft home on Chalk

Job summary

Chalk is hiring a Product Manager in San Francisco to join as an early employee and drive impact with autonomy. You will work closely with the VP of Product, co-founders, and engineering to ship in a fast-moving environment.

We seek someone scrappy, technically proficient, and comfortable owning both product and project management responsibilities. The role is office-forward, five days a week in the SF office, with limited flexibility for conflicts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience on technical products (developer-facing tools, platforms, infrastructure, data systems).
• Strong technical acumen and ability to engage with engineering on architecture, tradeoffs, and system constraints.
• Ability to ship complex products in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity.
• Willingness to take on both product management and project management responsibilities to ensure delivery.
• Low ego, high ownership, bias toward execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate product strategy to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to write Python for analysis, prototypes, or debugging.
• Experience with data science, analytics, experimentation, or performance/benchmark-driven products.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, query engines, compilers, or data infrastructure.
• Experience building for enterprise customers and balancing platform integrity with customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute product priorities with Chalk’s VP of Product and co-founders.
• Understand user needs across data and AI/ML teams; translate feedback into requirements.
• Lead end-to-end delivery including scoping, milestones, and release coordination.
• Partner with engineering on developer experience, performance, and integrations.
• Write product specifications and tradeoffs aligned with business outcomes and customer impact.
• Define success metrics, analyze results, and iterate.
• Support strategic initiatives such as pricing analysis, packaging, and feature scoping as the company scales.

Skills

Product management

Technical products

Python for analysis

Strong communication

Job description

Chalk is hiring a Product Manager in San Francisco to join as an early employee and drive impact with autonomy. You will work closely with the VP of Product, co-founders, and engineering to ship in a fast-moving environment.

We seek someone scrappy, technically proficient, and comfortable owning both product and project management responsibilities. The role is office-forward, five days a week in the SF office, with limited flexibility for conflicts.