Product Manager, Grid
About The Position
Baseten is hiring a Product Manager for Grid, its intelligent model routing platform. Grid helps developers get strong results across open and frontier models without manually selecting a model for every request. The product is starting with coding agents, where model choice can significantly affect quality, speed, and cost. The Product Manager will work with engineers, researchers, and customers to build a new category of AI infrastructure. The role will shape how intelligent routing works, how developers control it, and how its performance is demonstrated relative to choosing a single model. The position spans the product roadmap from early developer adoption through production deployments and enterprise expansion, and includes customer engagement, evaluation, developer experience, and adoption.
Requirements
- Experience building and commercializing AI/ML products or developer platforms, with demonstrated adoption or business impact.
- A technical background in software engineering, ML engineering, research, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Experience working with researchers or ML engineers on model behavior, evaluation, or learned systems in production.
- Strong understanding of AI model quality, latency, cost, and the tradeoffs involved in optimizing across them.
- Excellent developer product instincts and appreciation for both simple APIs and enterprise-level controls.
- Hands-on experience using coding agents and a strong point of view on where automation helps developers and where they need control.
- Comfort building emerging products where the technical approach and customer expectations are still evolving.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with LLM gateways, model routing, AI agents, coding harnesses, or multi-model platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the Grid product roadmap, from early developer adoption to production deployments and enterprise expansion.
- Work with researchers and engineers to improve intelligent model selection, routing policies, fallbacks, and controls.
- Build evaluation frameworks that measure real-world outcomes, including task quality, completion time, latency, and total cost.
- Shape the developer experience for onboarding, configuration, observability, and routing decisions.
- Help customers understand why a model was selected and give them confidence and control over routing behavior.
- Address technical challenges involving conversation history, tool compatibility, prompt caching, retries, and routing overhead.
- Partner with go-to-market teams and customers to turn early pilots into sustained adoption and revenue growth.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- For U.S. employees: 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible PTO policy, including company-wide Winter Break when offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
- For U.S. employees: company-facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering learning and networking opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
