Product Manager, Model APIs

The role

The Product Manager for Model APIs owns how developers and enterprises consume Sarvam's models. This person manages the API surface and helps set model direction by influencing the model roadmap.

What you will do

• Own the product surface for model APIs across speech, language, and multimodal.
• Shape model roadmaps alongside research leads using usage, evals, and customer signal.
• Define quality standards for model lines including accuracy, latency, cost, and robustness.
• Own evaluation as a product including benchmark suites, tests, and human evals.
• Turn customer and developer feedback into concrete model and API requirements.
• Partner with infra and platform teams on rollout, capacity, monitoring, and reliability.
• Drive release planning end to end including positioning, launch, and migration paths.
• Communicate priorities and trade-offs across research, engineering, GTM, and leadership.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years building AI/ML products, developer platforms, or APIs.
• Working fluency with the model lifecycle: data, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Strong analytical instincts and comfort with data.
• Sound judgment on trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost.
• Ability to work closely with researchers and earn their trust.

Nice to have

• Experience with speech (ASR, TTS) or LLM APIs and related metrics.
• Track record shipping and maintaining a public or enterprise-facing API.
• Hands-on with SQL, Python, or ML tooling.
• Exposure to Indian language AI, multilingual systems, or evaluation for low-resource languages.

About the company

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India through a full-stack platform including research, models, infrastructure and applications. The company is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures.