Product Manager - Developer Experience

Baseten • San Francisco, CA

1d • $165,000 - $330,000

About The Position

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies. We are building the product function now, and you'd be one of the first people who will help define it. You'll work directly with our founders and with some of the best systems and infrastructure engineers in the world, and you'll set the standard for building great AI Infrastructure. PMs at Baseten don't sit above engineers - you earn ownership by being technical, finding the truth in front of customers, building great cross-functional relationships, and shipping great product experiences.

Requirements

• You’ve built dev tools as an engineer before you became a PM. You've shipped SDKs, CLIs, APIs, or platform surfaces with your own hands.
• You take great pride in dev tooling and dev products that you’ve shipped with proof.
• 5+ years building developer-facing or technical products - as a product manager, or as a product-minded engineer.
• Genuine taste for developer experience across both local (CLI) and UI - you've made something complex feel simple, and can point to where.
• Strong opinions on CLI, API first and agent-first design - you treat the coding agent as a first-class user, not a feature.
• Technical enough to earn engineers' trust and reason about what's under the hood — because you've been under it.
• A rigorous researcher who lets customer reality drive the call and a relentless shipper.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ML infrastructure, developer tools, or API products.
• You've deployed and served models yourself.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end journey from first sign-up to a running, maintained production deployment and reducing the time it takes to get there.
• Own the CLI and SDKs as the primary way developers and their AI agents build on Baseten — and the authoring surfaces (CLI, console, truss, config.yml / model.py / chains.py) converged into one coherent path.
• Own the first-run experience — onboarding, model discovery and deploy via the Model Library, and a first deploy where errors surface and builds show progress.
• Own the deployment lifecycle and safe releases — environment promotion (dev → staging → prod), version history and an artifact/model registry, reproducible deployments, and the progressive-delivery controls developers set and read: canary, shadow, A/B, scheduled promotion, and one-gesture rollback.
• Own multi-model composition (Chains) and evolving the DevEx for developers building multi-modal agents and applications.
• Act as the Voice of the Developer — live in customer conversations and turn deploy-and-operate friction into roadmap.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed