Principal Product Manager Agents and Context

Description

The company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The company, the Search AI Company, is looking for a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for the company Agent Builder. As organizations shift from traditional data retrieval to autonomous, agentic workflows, the Agent Builder serves as the critical context layer that enables users to make Agents faster, lower cost, and more accurate. In this high-impact role, you will be responsible for defining how enterprises build, manage, and scale context for AI agents. You will work at the cutting edge of the AI ecosystem, working with senior leadership and partnering with hyperscalers and evangelizing our solutions to a global community of AI developers.

What You Will Be Doing

Work directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand requirements, negotiate priorities, clarify product needs

Build, socialize and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on top of the company powered retrieval and relevance for AI Agents

Deeply understand the AI Agent market, major players, trends and how it may impact our strategy

Work directly data science and engineering to build out the strategy for benchmarking and evaluations of agent capabilities

Work with design to build user experiences that address gaps in how agents show and refine context as they work

Be the product expert and evangelize capabilities for Agent Builder through content like blog posts and open source projects

Work with a broad ecosystem of AI partners including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers

What You Bring

Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products. A consistent record of leading sophisticated, data-intensive products from inception through launch and iterative growth.

AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering. You are comfortable working closely with engineers and data scientists to solve intricate technical challenges.

Bias to action: You are able to move fast and quickly learn from experiments and tests. You utilize AI tools to help accelerate your processes and bring clarity to your decisions.

Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision, and drive execution in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills. You can distill complex engineering details into compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.

Customer Obsession: A passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems. You are an advocate for the developer persona and are dedicated to building products that empower users to innovate.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At the company, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

€104.800 - €165.700 EUR

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, the company is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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