Staff Product Manager, AI Applications

Deepgram • ,

2d • $200,000 - $268,000

About The Position

Deepgram is seeking a Staff Product Manager to define and build its new line of AI applications. These applications will leverage Deepgram's voice AI technology to serve knowledge workers and consumers, establishing a new revenue stream for the company. The role involves owning the product strategy, roadmap, and business metrics, working closely with research, engineering, design, and marketing teams. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in zero-to-one product definition, experience with AI-native products, and strong product management judgment. This is a dynamic role in a fast-paced environment, requiring adaptability and a continuous learning mindset.

Requirements

• Excellent product management judgment. You own product and roadmap, set direction, decide under uncertainty, ship outcomes, and lead cross-functional work without authority. You can show the results.
• A shipped product that people paid for. This is required. You have built and shipped a consumer or prosumer application that people chose and paid for, and you owned its funnel and its business as well as its features.
• Zero-to-one product definition. You have taken a product from an idea to a first version real users adopted — the strategy, the positioning, the first release — and you can show what happened next.
• Deep AI fluency, proven by shipped work. This is required. You have personally built and shipped AI into end-user applications and have strong, specific opinions about where models help, where they fail, and how to verify what they produce.
• Technical depth. You reason with engineering about models, latency, privacy, and platform tradeoffs; you read code; you prototype.
• Design sense. You build simple, effective interfaces and communicate ideas through mockups and prototypes, grounded in user research and testing.
• The judgment to distrust a number before you build on it. You ask whether a metric is real or an artifact of how it was measured, as a reflex.
• Clear communication with executives. You lead with the decision, keep your method in reserve, and stay steady under pushback without either caving or digging in.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building native desktop or mobile applications (Windows, macOS, iOS).
• Experience shipping a product through distribution partners, on someone else’s platform and calendar.
• Experience with voice, audio, or real-time systems.
• Time in a company with both a self-serve and an enterprise motion.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy for Deepgram’s AI applications: decide which products the line consists of, who they are for, and why they win; write it down; defend it to executives; and keep the direction stable while the team builds.
• Own the roadmap and its decisions — what ships, in what order, with which tradeoffs — from the applications we have today to the ones we have not built yet.
• Build the business: acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization, with the metrics, the targets, and a weekly read of whether the product is working and the business is becoming profitable.
• Represent the product with partners and customers, and own what we commit to deliver and when.
• Run the team’s operating rhythm — a hypothesis, a shipped change, an honest measurement, the next bet — with real usage by real people as the bar, starting with Deepgram’s own employees as the first users.
• Partner daily with research on the models, with engineering and design on the build, and with marketing on the launch; bring the user’s voice into every decision.
• Prototype. Mockups, wireframes, and working prototypes are how you communicate; using the product every day is how you know it.

What This Job Offers

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