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Role Description

We are seeking a high-caliber Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of Sayari’s AI initiatives. In this role, you will be the lead strategist and primary owner of the functional logic for the backend intelligence system that transforms our massive proprietary knowledge graph into autonomous reasoning capabilities.

• Partner with your Front-end AI PM counterpart, Engineering, and Business Units to transition Sayari from an analyst-focused search tool to a "System of Work".
• Have product ownership over the foundational AI stack: model orchestration, automated evaluation frameworks, prompt engineering systems, and the strategy for domain-specific models (including SLMs).
• Drive the backend AI product lifecycle from data quality initiatives for LLMs to self-repairing agentic workflows.
• Shape the core product requirements and reasoning logic AI product lifecycle to deliver definitive answers to decision-makers in mission-critical industries.

Job Responsibilities

• Core AI Platform Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for Sayari’s AI infrastructure, owning the requirements for orchestration layers, prompt management systems, and underlying platform architecture.
• Model Lifecycle & SLM Ownership: Lead the strategy for model selection, fine-tuning, and deployment, evaluating trade-offs between frontier models and domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs).
• Automated Evaluation & Trust: Establish the "ground truth" for Sayari AI by defining and building rigorous evaluation frameworks.
• Intelligence Orchestration: Define how our systems reason and interact, owning product requirements for agentic workflows and Model Context Protocols (MCPs).
• Collaborative AI Delivery: Partner with "Front-end" Application PMs to ensure backend capabilities translate into seamless user experiences.
• Investment & Outcome Strategy: Author business cases and define business outcomes for significant technical shifts in our AI stack.
• Tradecraft Codification & Expert AI: Lead efforts to translate complex analyst tradecraft into automated "Skills" and agentic reasoning.
• Cultural Architect: Act as a Cultural Architect for AI, promoting a 'Quality-First' mindset across the company.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management experience, specifically focused on backend platforms or AI/ML engines.
• 2-4+ years of experience in Product Management of AI-driven solutions & Deep Generative AI Fluency.
• Prior experience leveraging risk, intelligence, supply chain, or financial investigation data.
• Experience managing a "Platform-as-a-Product" model.
• Comfortable discussing model architecture and infrastructure trade-offs with engineering peers.
• A track record of translating vague technical possibilities into high-impact, executable product requirements.
• Proven ability to make high-stakes product bets in non-deterministic environments.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience defining how complex entity-relationship data should be leveraged to automate high-order reasoning tasks.
• Technical familiarity with model fine-tuning, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), or the deployment of SLMs in production.

Benefits

• 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents.
• Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days.
• Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and bonuses for non-revenue positions.
• A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage), and parental leave.
• A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.

Pay Range

$185,000 - $200,000 USD