Senior Product Manager

The role

You will drive the strategy and execution of the AI inference platform. This individual contributor role involves owning product initiatives and guiding junior Product Managers and Product Designers.

What you will do

• Own product strategy and roadmap for core areas of the inference platform.
• Lead product initiatives from discovery and prioritization through delivery and iteration.
• Guide and mentor junior Product Managers and Product Designers.
• Drive customer discovery through interviews, design partnerships, and usage data analysis.
• Identify high-impact opportunities by analyzing market trends and competitive landscape.
• Translate customer and business needs into product requirements, user stories, and success metrics.
• Partner with engineering and research teams to scope solutions and make tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with GTM, Sales, and Solutions teams to support customer conversations and roadmap alignment.
• Define and track product success metrics and KPIs.
• Communicate product vision, priorities, and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience with ownership of complex products or platforms.
• Experience acting as a product lead on initiatives involving multiple PMs and/or Designers.
• Strong technical fluency to work with senior engineers on infrastructure-heavy systems.
• Familiarity with AI/ML systems, particularly inference, deployment, or production AI workflows.
• Ability to drive product direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong judgment and structured decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI inference platforms, LLM deployment, or GPU-based infrastructure.
• Experience building developer platforms, APIs, or internal frameworks.
• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS or cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.
• Background in computer science, engineering, or a closely related field.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Daily lunch and dinner provided
• Unlimited snacks and beverages
• Supportive and highly collaborative work environment
• Health check-up support
• Top-tier equipment/hardware support
• Competitive compensation
• Startup equity
• Health insurance

About the company

FriendliAI is building an AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale. They power high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide.