Senior Technical Product Manager

Skills
Complex SystemsConnectorsEmerging TechnologiesEnhanced Data Rates For GSM EvolutionFitLarge Language ModelsShares
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of product management experience building or scaling technical products ideally in ambiguous environments
  • Strong technical foundation with experience coding and collaborating closely with engineers to ship complex software
  • Able to reason about distributed systems privacy technologies and AI
  • Hands-on with code and tooling able to read PRs debug or prototype ideas
  • Strong grasp of the evolving AI landscape including model advances agentic systems and full-stack architecture
  • Ability to bridge research and implementation into practical product directions
  • Comfort in ambiguity and ability to create structure and clarity
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Mission-driven mindset aligned with OpenMined's goal

Nice to have

  • Early-stage experience
  • Research-to-product background
  • Data scientist experience
  • Open-source contributions
  • Policy curiosity
  • Founder-like mindset

Day to day

  • Drive discovery experimentation and delivery to move Syft from concept toward product-market fit
  • Conduct user research and go-to-market experiments to uncover workflows pain points and incentives
  • Collaborate closely with engineers and researchers to define build and iterate on deeply technical products
  • Translate complex systems into intuitive user experiences and prototype flows to accelerate learning
  • Identify meaningful signals from activation retention and mission alignment and use them to guide iteration