Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Minted as a Product Manager specializing in Generative AI, spearheading the development of AI-powered features and a long-term strategy. You will leverage your expertise in LLMs to create user-facing pilots and production experiences. This role demands a deep understanding of Generative AI technologies and the ability to collaborate with engineering and data teams. You will define key success metrics, manage projects, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure product success. The position is open in San Francisco or remotely, with a 3x/week in-person schedule for the SF office. Minted offers a competitive hourly rate of $100-$120.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience developing products using GenAI. Integrating with LLMs, model tuning based on user interaction, using RAG
• 5+ years product management experience, building and shipping ecommerce or direct- to-consumer successful products and features
• 5-7 years experience in data science, ecommerce or marketplaces
• Superb analytical skills and ability to effectively use data to investigate and solve problems and make decisions
• Demonstrated an understanding of technology/architecture and effective partnership with engineering to identify technical solutions based on tradeoffs of user experience, technical debt, latency, scalability, reliability, time to market etc
• Project management skills: Ability to plan, set expectations, make and meet commitments. Provide structure, process and project management to cross-functional teams
• Intense commitment to quality: Demonstrated focus on quality of product/customer
• Experience and testing/debugging

Responsibilities

• Quickly develop a strong grasp of Minted’s core assets and capabilities by efficiently exploring our tech stack, data, user experiences, and market opportunities
• Based on your deep understanding of Generative AI current technologies and future trends, you will outline near and long term opportunities for Minted
• Develop user-facing pilots and productionalized experiences leveraging Generative AI
• Working with your Eng and data partners you will find ways to quickly experiment and validate using or working around our current tech stack
• Incorporate user feedback (behavior, qual, sentiment) into the product experiences
• Work with multiple product, functional and fulfillment partners to document these use cases including search, browse, recommendations, reporting, pricing, promotions, bundles, etc
• Develop and propose a phased roadmap and resourcing model for executing this strategy. That resourcing model should leverage existing and new talent
• Coordinate with other product managers, designers, merchants and stakeholders to ensure product success
• Drive product execution including project kickoffs, daily scrums, sprint planning, maintaining product specs and backlog
• Define, monitor, and report on key success metrics for engagement and uptake of newly launched products

Preferred Qualifications

• A strategic, consumer-centric thinker. You have a variety of experiences leveraging GenAI
• Results oriented. You are most comfortable in work environments which are outcome-oriented and merit-based, and are highly motivated by goal accomplishment in the face of stringent deadlines
• Data driven. You make your product decisions based on quantitative and qualitative data. You passionately own quality delivery in your product area, keep a continuous health check
• Detail-oriented. You are able to identify and resolve edge cases as well as functional details in order to deliver a high-quality product experience
• Receptive to change. You are flexible, adaptable, innovative, and open in response to competitive pressure and market change
• A systems thinker. You intuitively understand interdependencies, ask follow-up questions, and drive to solutions that balance the success of initiatives across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals
• A collaborative thinker. You enjoy an environment that has been structured for collaboration and interdependencies
• A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively, create common knowledge, generate buy-in, and influence stakeholders and senior management towards recommended decisions
• Someone with excellent product judgment, the ability to make sound decisions based on tradeoffs of different solutions, complex problems, various stakeholders, and many constraints

Benefits

• $100 - $120 an hour
• We’re open to hiring in either San Francisco or remote