Staff Product Manager, AI & Developer Experience

Fivetran • Denver, CO

22h • $226,657 - $283,322

About The Position

As Staff Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will set the strategy for how AI transforms the way data practitioners write, debug, and ship dbt code. You will own the vision, roadmap, and outcomes for the end-to-end developer workflow across the Studio IDE, Developer Agent (an AI coding assistant inside dbt Wizard), Cloud CLI, and dbt VS Code Extension. These products serve tens of thousands of data practitioners, from experienced analytics engineers to newer practitioners who use AI to work faster with confidence.

This Staff-level role has broad scope and direct influence on company direction. You will be a key partner to the Fusion team, which drives dbt’s next-generation compilation and intelligence. You will shape how Fusion capabilities become differentiated developer experiences, ensure developer needs inform the Fusion roadmap, and architect the feedback loop between Developer Experience and Fusion. The role calls for a strategic, hands-on leader who can define the future of AI-native developer tooling and is deeply passionate about building AI agents well.

You will set multi-year strategy and roadmap priorities, align investments with company strategy, product-led growth goals, and Fusion direction, and make investment decisions grounded in market insight, customer evidence, and technical judgment. You will lead AI agent product development, including agentic workflows, multi-step task execution, context management, natural-language interaction, and guided experiences. You will establish principles for trust, transparency, control, and evaluation, while tracking the AI landscape and developing a differentiated product perspective.

You will coordinate execution across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams; partner with Fusion on platform and product boundaries, API contracts, and roadmaps; influence senior leaders and stakeholders; and mentor other product managers. You will stay close to dbt community members and enterprise customers, especially power users and technical practitioners, and use research and competitive analysis to guide planning.

Success includes a clear developer experience strategy aligned across engineering, design, and leadership; a differentiated and well-regarded Developer Agent; improved developer satisfaction and engagement, including activation, session depth, and feature adoption; a coordinated Fusion partnership; and a Cloud CLI that developers actively choose. The position is on a distributed, remote team; the posting does not specify whether this role is remote, hybrid, or onsite.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience.
• Track record of owning strategy and roadmaps for developer platforms at scale.
• Direct experience owning developer environment products and an informed perspective on excellent development tools and modern IDE limitations.
• Hands-on experience building, shipping, or leading AI agent features, such as multi-step LLM workflows, tool use, context management, or evaluation.
• Regular use of AI coding assistants and strong, well-reasoned opinions about their strengths and limitations.
• History of leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing without authority, including across platform and product teams.
• Strong technical foundation, including ability to reason about system architecture, engage deeply with engineers, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Experience converting user research and developer feedback into prioritized, well-scoped product work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from concise specifications to executive-level narratives.
• Comfort working asynchronously on a distributed, remote team.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or shipping frontier AI agent products, including agentic user experiences, evaluation frameworks, or agent orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with dbt or similar SQL-first transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with LSP, tree-sitter, or other IDE infrastructure primitives.
• Experience with CLI tooling and developer workflow automation.
• Background in open source or strong engagement with developer communities.
• Knowledge of modern data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift, and the analytics engineering ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year vision and roadmap for developer experience across Studio IDE, Developer Agent, Cloud CLI, and the VS Code Extension, including priorities, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Align developer experience investments with company strategy, product-led growth goals, and Fusion platform direction; set success metrics and own outcomes.
• Make investment and product-scope decisions using market insight, customer evidence, and technical judgment.
• Define the product vision for a best-in-class AI coding agent for dbt users, including agentic workflows, multi-step task execution, context management, natural-language interaction, and guided experiences.
• Shape principles for trust, transparency, control, and evaluation in agentic experiences.
• Track AI development and competitors and turn market developments into a differentiated product perspective.
• Partner with the Fusion team to define platform and product boundaries, agree on API contracts, and coordinate roadmaps.
• Lead engineering, design, and go-to-market teams through a predictable shipping cadence and maintain alignment on priorities.
• Influence senior leadership and company stakeholders using strategy documents, demos, and clear explanations of tradeoffs.
• Mentor other product managers and raise product craft, rigor, and technical depth across the organization.
• Build feedback loops with the dbt community and enterprise customers, particularly power users and technical practitioners.
• Use user research and competitive analysis to ground strategy and inform planning.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
• Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
• Monthly cell phone stipend.
• Access to a mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for covered employees and dependents. Benefits may vary by country and worker type.

What This Job Offers

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