Senior Director of Product Management, Models and Data

London, Remote. Posted 10 days ago

The role

You will be the first product leader for the Large Geospatial Model and the data it learns from. You will own the model roadmap, set release criteria, and decide on data collection and licensing strategies.

What you will do

Own the Model Roadmap
Turn customer problems into specific research requirements
Set the Release Bar by defining evals and acceptance criteria
Decide whether each release ships or goes back for more data or training
Own the Data Plan by deciding what data to collect, buy, license or get through partners
Set curation, labeling, consent, privacy and training-rights requirements for datasets
Turn Capabilities into Products
Set the Long-Term Direction for the model

Required qualifications

8+ years in product management
At least three years shipping a large model to users or customers
Experience writing evals for a model and using them to decide when a release was ready
Direct work on training data, such as setting a data mix, running labeling or human-feedback programs, or negotiating data licenses
Depth in how large models are trained, post-trained and evaluated
Experience setting direction for research and engineering teams that did not report to you
A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

Experience in 3D computer vision, reconstruction, localization, mapping, geospatial data, robotics or autonomous systems
An advanced degree in machine learning, computer vision, robotics, or a related field
Experience with Gaussian splatting, neural fields or visual positioning systems
Experience with government or defense requirements for data provenance and security

Benefits

Annual bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits package

About the company

Niantic Spatial builds spatial AI models and services so people and machines can reason, learn and act safely in the physical world. They build a living, measured record of the real world that machines can query, learn from and use to understand how places change over time.