Product Manager, OpenRouter Connect

The role

You will own the Connect roadmap end to end. You will work with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to build a platform that lets partners offer multi-model inference to their customers.

What you will do

• Own the Connect roadmap end to end.
• Prioritize and define requirements for partner integration, provisioning APIs, controls, guardrails, and billing.
• Set strategy and prioritize target partner segments.
• Define competitive positioning and set goals for activation, engagement, and retention.
• Work with design partners to understand needs and unblock engineers.
• Work with engineering and design to ship products iteratively.
• Ensure Connect uses reusable abstractions rather than one-off integrations.
• Drive platform gaps back into the core product.
• Shape the commercial model with go-to-market, partnerships, and finance teams.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of product management or founder experience building platform, API, or infrastructure products that other companies' engineers build on.
• Experience shipping partner-delivered, multi-tenant products.
• Experience with tenant, identity, and billing questions in multi-tenant systems.
• Zero-to-one track record of taking a product from design partners to general availability.
• High agency and a bias toward action.
• Ability to write clearly and often.
• Strong technical judgment including reading API specs, calling SDKs, and reviewing observability and product metrics.

Nice to have

• Time at a developer platform, LLM ops, or AI gateway company, or building the embedded or OEM offering of an infrastructure product.
• Familiarity with the controls partners' enterprise customers need, such as access, budget, and DLP management.
• Experience-informed opinions on tenant isolation, delegated administration, end-user identity, and per-tenant policy.
• Background in usage-based billing and reporting.
• Existing user of OpenRouter or hands-on familiarity with the model and provider ecosystem.

About the company

OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that developers and enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize their AI use across models and providers. It provides a single control plane for AI to set policy, manage spend, and track usage, cost, and performance.