Senior Product Manager

The role

You will bridge the gap between technical capabilities and commercial success by navigating the space between Product, Sales, and Engineering. You will translate market signals into a roadmap and align go-to-market strategy with product direction.

What you will do

• Manage priority initiatives from initial concept to market delivery.
• Maintain a roadmap balancing customer needs, differentiation, and vision.
• Lead key customer conversations and discovery sessions.
• Drive design partner engagements.
• Maintain expert-level understanding of the AI landscape to inform product decisions.
• Contribute to packaging and pricing models.
• Develop a problem-oriented product development process.
• Coordinate between internal teams to ensure alignment.
• Ensure product launches are supported by Marketing and Sales.
• Participate in Analyst Relations and Field Marketing events.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Management (or equivalent experience) in B2B SaaS / enterprise software
• Located near Palo Alto
• Strong business and GTM instincts and experience shaping strategy, packaging, and pricing
• Technical ability to collaborate with engineers and AI teams regarding agent harnesses, retrieval, embeddings, evaluation, hallucinations, latency, devops, and deployment models
• Track record of driving cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing
• Articulate and clear communicator
• Scrappy and tenacious
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity

Nice to have

• meaningful experience working on AI/ML/Data products
• familiarity with semiconductor / hardware-adjacent industries or enterprise buyers (e.g., manufacturing, regulated industries)
• prior experience in competitive markets against modern AI startups, search, knowledge management, or enterprise platforms

Benefits

• 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees
• Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• paid sick time
• paid holidays
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Equity ownership

About the company

Vectara provides an Agent Platform that allows organizations to rapidly create AI applications grounded in the context from their data and knowledge. The team is a group of all-stars in computer science, design, and business.