Staff Product Manager, AI & Developer Experience

Fivetran • Oakland, CA

22h • $243,936 - $304,920 • Remote

About The Position

Fivetran is hiring a Staff Product Manager to set the strategy and own outcomes for dbt’s end-to-end developer experience. The role spans the Studio IDE, Developer Agent (an AI coding assistant inside dbt Wizard), Cloud CLI, and dbt VS Code Extension—tools used by data practitioners ranging from experienced analytics engineers to newer users. This Staff-level position has broad scope and direct influence on company direction, with a central partnership with the Fusion team to turn next-generation compilation and intelligence capabilities into differentiated developer experiences and to ensure developer needs inform the Fusion roadmap.

The successful candidate will define a multi-year vision and roadmap, make evidence-based investment and prioritization decisions, and lead the development of AI-agent experiences including agentic workflows, multi-step task execution, context management, natural-language interaction, and guided experiences. They will establish principles for trust, transparency, control, and evaluation; monitor the evolving AI development landscape; and develop a distinct product direction. They will coordinate engineering, design, and go-to-market teams, align platform and product roadmaps, influence senior stakeholders, mentor PMs, and maintain close feedback loops with dbt community members and enterprise customers.

Success includes a clear developer-experience strategy, a differentiated Developer Agent, improved developer satisfaction and engagement, an effective Fusion partnership, and a Cloud CLI that developers actively choose. The role is on a distributed, remote team and requires comfort working asynchronously. The Oakland target compensation range is $243,936–$304,920 USD; actual compensation depends on factors including skills, experience, education or training, business need, and location.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including a track record of owning strategy and roadmaps for developer platforms at scale.
• Direct experience owning developer-environment products and an informed perspective on what makes development tools excellent and where modern IDEs fall short.
• Hands-on experience building, shipping, or leading AI-agent features, such as multi-step LLM workflows, tool use, context management, or evaluation.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants and strong, well-reasoned opinions about their strengths and weaknesses.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing without authority, including across platform and product teams.
• Strong technical foundation, including the 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 skills, 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 UX, 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, and Redshift, and the analytics engineering ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year vision and roadmap for the Studio IDE, Developer Agent, Cloud CLI, and VS Code Extension; translate it into priorities, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Align developer-experience investments with company strategy, product-led growth goals, and Fusion platform direction; set success metrics and be accountable for outcomes.
• Make high-stakes product investment decisions using market insight, customer evidence, and technical judgment.
• Define the 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 developments in AI coding products and turn them into a differentiated product point of view.
• Partner with the Fusion team to define platform/product boundaries, agree on API contracts, and coordinate roadmaps.
• Lead engineering, design, and GTM teams through a predictable shipping cadence and maintain alignment on priorities.
• Influence senior leadership and stakeholders through strategy documents, demos, and clear explanations of complex 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 in evidence and bring an external perspective into 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 including 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