RemoteFull timeOperations & Project Management

Senior Product Manager

LancedbUnited States | Canada🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

As a Senior Product Manager at LanceDB, you will shape the future of AI data infrastructure with industry leaders, enjoying significant impact and career growth in a dynamic, remote-first environment. If you have a strong technical background and a passion for building innovative data platforms, this role offers an exciting opportunity to drive product strategy and collaborate with top engineering talent. Apply now to join a company empowering the next wave of AI advancements.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Employment typeFull Time

Work modeRemote

LocationUnited States | Canada, United States

Job description

About LanceDB

AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles.

About the Role

Takes high-level direction (e.g., “analyze X”) and drives to results across the company
Success looks like a LanceDB platform that is even more tightly focused on our ICP, and providing clarity on what engineering builds

What You'll Do

Shape roadmap with CTO + eng leadership
Deep dives into competitors, users, and adjacent tech
Talk to users constantly; turn insight into product changes
Drive cross-team decisions on priorities (eng, field, support)
Work with engineering directly as a technically-respected peer

What We're Looking For

10+ years in a highly technical role
5+ years of product work
Shipped and iterated on products end-to-end
Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems)
Understanding of AI researcher persona - what success looks like for them, what are their pain points, what increases their happiness
Regularly engaged with users (interviews, support, design partners, or community)
Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
Experience influencing or driving roadmap / prioritization decisions
Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)
Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
Experience contributing to or working with open source communities