Senior Product Manager, Asta

The role

You will own the engineering and data frameworks of Asta, a platform for building agents that advance scientific research. You will define engineering requirements, build roadmaps, and manage the Semantic Scholar data platform and public APIs.

What you will do

• Define Asta engineering requirements by working with Ai2 researchers
• Articulate trade offs to guide team priorities and investments
• Build and sequence the roadmap for Asta's agentic framework and tools
• Create and run a continuous feedback loop between engineering and research
• Drive adoption of Asta's tools among Ai2's own researchers
• Project manage and drive execution across Asta engineering workstreams
• Own the Semantic Scholar platform end to end, including data platform and public APIs
• Own Ai2's benchmarking strategy for scientific agents
• Own regulatory and governance compliance for these products
• Represent researcher and developer perspectives in engineering planning

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5-8+ years of product management experience
• Experience shipping developer-facing or research-facing products such as APIs, platforms, or tools
• Ability to translate ambiguous, research-driven needs into concrete engineering requirements and a sequenced roadmap
• Experience partnering closely with an engineering team on a technical platform
• Genuine interest in AI research, agentic systems, and their application to scientific discovery
• Ability to learn a technical domain quickly
• Comfort owning compliance-related product requirements
• Strong written communication
• Excellent stakeholder management across research and engineering
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and building product processes

Nice to have

• Direct experience with agent frameworks, LLM tooling, or orchestration platforms
• Experience building or maintaining public-facing developer products
• Familiarity with data privacy and governance regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
• Experience in a research organization, national lab, or academic environment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee assistance program
• Health savings account plan
• Healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans
• 401k plan
• $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses
• $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
• Up to ten sick days per year
• Up to seven personal days per year
• Up to 20 vacation days per year
• Twelve paid holidays

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

About the company

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Its mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.