Staff Product Manager (Remote)

Weedmaps•Austin, TX

4d•Remote

About The Position

Product Management at Weedmaps is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap in order to realize our mission of being the hub for all things cannabis. As a Staff Product Manager focused on Personalization, your number one goal is to ensure we are delivering the most relevant, tailored experiences for every customer across the Weedmaps platform. You will partner closely with our ML and AI teams to build and scale personalization capabilities — including product recommendations, personalized search, and AI-powered features — that anticipate customer needs and deepen engagement. As our platform and content ecosystem continues to evolve, this Staff Product Manager will be critical in ensuring we surface the right experiences to the right customers at the right moment in their journey. Additionally, you should have a proven ability to build relationships and influence across the organization at all levels, as well as superior communication and presentation skills.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
8+ years of product management experience in a technological industry
Proven track record of operating at a staff or principal level, driving product strategy across multiple teams or domains
Deep data background using self-service analytics tooling (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, etc.)
Experience working with ML/AI teams to build and ship personalization systems, recommendation engines, or intelligent ranking models
4+ years experience in consumer-facing online commerce, point-of-sale, or marketplace environments
2+ years experience owning a personalization, search, or ML-powered product stack at scale
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive org-wide alignment on complex, ambiguous problems

Nice To Haves

Strong strategic aptitude with a proven ability to define a winning product vision and roadmap, particularly in personalization, recommendations, or AI-powered product domains
Deep customer empathy and experience intuition; demonstrated success building tailored, intelligent user experiences that drive engagement and retention
Excellent communication and persuasion skills; proven ability to build executive buy-in for bold, long-term bets in emerging AI/ML product spaces
Strong analytical and quantitative skills with a bias toward data-driven decision making, including comfort with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and ML model evaluation
Ability to translate personalization strategy into detailed, actionable product requirements that bridge business goals and ML/AI capabilities
High technical fluency; comfortable engaging deeply with ML engineers and data scientists on model tradeoffs, feature pipelines, data infrastructure, and system architecture
Proven ability to navigate build vs. buy vs. partner decisions for AI/ML capabilities, balancing customer impact with speed to market
Comfortable operating in ambiguity; able to define structure and drive progress on complex, cross-functional initiatives without a clear playbook
Strong bias for action with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Proven ability to lead and align cross-functional teams — including engineering, data science, design, and marketing — through influence rather than direct authority
Familiarity with modern AI/ML development workflows, including experience working in agile environments with data science and ML engineering teams

Responsibilities

Define a roadmap that achieves a world-class personalization strategy, delivering relevant and tailored experiences across the Weedmaps platform
Partner with ML and AI teams to build and scale personalization capabilities, including product recommendations, personalized search ranking, and AI-powered features
Translate business goals and customer needs into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap
Maintain and prioritize a backlog, ensuring new features and enhancements are validated and clearly specified
Lead a cross-functional team to implement the personalization vision efficiently, aligning stakeholders across product, engineering, data science, and design
Monitor adoption, engagement, and revenue impact of personalization features and report on release performance as necessary
Collaborate with product, program, and engineering leaders across the organization to guide the platform roadmap, pinpointing new opportunities for personalization at scale
Oversee enterprise-level product planning including identifying new personalization opportunities and incorporating a rolling roadmap of business projects and technology initiatives
Write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents, ensuring clear communication to business, design, and development teams
Engage with customers through a variety of channels and serve as the voice of the customer internally, using insights to inform personalization strategy

Benefits

Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
100% employer-paid premium for employees
Up to 80% coverage for dependents
Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
Supplemental, voluntary benefits
Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Accident Insurance
Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Identity theft protection
Legal access to a network of attorneys
PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
Paid parental leave