Hybrid Senior Product Manager – AI Platform, Generative Models

at JiffyShirts.com

• Job title: Senior Product Manager – AI Platform, Generative Models
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Irvine, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Manager responsible for architecting the foundational AI platform at a startup innovating in AI, apparel, and culture.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and execution of our foundational AI platform
• Build the brain and the nervous system of our entire product suite
• Guide the development of our in-house Large Language Models (LLMs) and imaging models
• Define the roadmap for agentic AI systems
• Create a world-class platform that unlocks capabilities our users haven't even imagined yet

Requirements

• **Basic Qualifications**
• Bachelors Degree Required in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years experience in product management
• Hands-on AI/ML Background: You have a past life as an ML Engineer, AI Researcher, or Data Scientist. You have hands-on experience building and shipping machine learning models. You must be able to command the respect of our senior AI engineers through your deep technical credibility.
• Full-Stack Model Expertise: You understand the entire lifecycle of large-scale models (LLMs, Diffusion Models, etc.) from a first-principles level. This includes:
• Training & Data: You can strategically guide decisions on data acquisition, pre-training vs. fine-tuning, and novel training methodologies.
• Inference & Optimization: You deeply understand the trade-offs between latency, cost, and performance, and can drive the roadmap for model quantization, distillation, and efficient serving.
• Mastery of Applied AI Craft: You know how to turn a powerful but raw model into a magical, reliable product. You are an expert in:
• Evals: Designing and implementing robust, multi-modal evaluation frameworks (both automated and human-in-the-loop) to rigorously measure and improve model quality.
• Agentic Systems: Architecting and building AI agents that can reason, plan, and use tools to accomplish complex tasks.
• Advanced Prompting: You are a master of prompt engineering, including sophisticated techniques like meta-prompting and Chain of Thought to elicit the best possible performance from models.
• Platform & API Architecture: You are a true platform builder. You know how to design clean, scalable, and intuitive APIs that developers love. You obsess over developer experience (DX), documentation, and building a platform that accelerates the entire organization.
• Proven AI Shipping Experience: You have a track record of shipping V1 AI-powered products, from consumer-facing features to developer-level platform services.
• Strategic & Systems Thinking: You can reason from first principles about the long-term trajectory of AI. You can connect advancements in research to concrete product opportunities and build a coherent technical strategy that spans multiple years.
• Exceptional Technical Communication: You can effortlessly translate the most complex AI concepts to any audience. You can debate RLHF implementation details with the research team and then explain the business impact of a new model to the executive team in the same day.
• MLOps Acumen: You understand the infrastructure that underpins modern AI and can contribute to the strategy for our tooling, deployment, and model monitoring systems.
• A "Wartime" Owner Mentality: You are an independent, relentlessly resourceful operator. You have an obsessive bias for action and run through walls to get the job done. You see a technical frontier, you chart a path, you rally a team, and you conquer it.
• **Preferred Qualifications**
• Startup DNA: You've worked at a seed or Series A startup or have tried to build your own thing.
• Research Contributions: You have published papers at top AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML) or have made significant contributions to major open-source AI projects.
• AI Ethics & Safety: You have a strong and nuanced understanding of the risks and ethical considerations of building powerful AI systems.
• Hardware Knowledge: You understand the underlying hardware (GPUs, TPUs, interconnects) and how it impacts model architecture and performance.
• **This Role Is Not a Fit For You If...**
• You see product management as just writing tickets. Your job is to be the technical and strategic visionary for our core AI.
• You are a "glorified project manager." Your job is to define the what and the why with extreme technical clarity, not just track the how.
• You are afraid to get your hands dirty with technical details. You must be able to read a research paper and immediately grasp its product implications.
• You feel your job is to "manage" engineers. Your job is to empower our world-class AI team with a compelling vision and deep technical partnership.
• You want to wait for the technology to be perfect. We ship and iterate in one-week cycles, even on the bleeding edge of AI.

Benefits

• **What We Offer**
• Compensation & Growth: Competitive salary, equity opportunities, and performance-based bonuses.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage, with a portion of premiums paid by Jiffy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k)
• Wellness Support: Annual wellness benefits to help you stay healthy and balanced.
• Tools for Success: Choice of MacBook or PC laptop, plus equipment for your home office setup.
• Perks & Extras: Annual credit of $200 to use on our website plus more team merch drops than you will know what to do with!
• Professional Development: Annual stipend to support your learning and career growth.