Staff Technical Product Manager

Klarity•San Francisco, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Klarity is at an inflection point. The Staff TPM role is for someone who has been here before — shaped product strategy at consequential scale, operates with minimal direction, influences cross-functional leaders, and leaves things measurably better than they found them. This role requires a technical PM who operates at a systems level, thinking in platforms, not features. The ideal candidate understands how product decisions create leverage or lock-in two years from now and has navigated such complexities before. A deep AI product thinker is essential, with experience owning AI-native products through multiple iterations, understanding evaluation frameworks, model tradeoffs, prompt architecture, and the operational complexity of running LLM features at scale. The role also demands an organizational multiplier who turns tribal knowledge into reusable standards and patterns, ensuring teams run better after their involvement. A trusted cross-functional voice is key, where Engineering leadership, the CTO, and the CEO value their opinions due to consistent delivery. The candidate must be equally strong in discovery and strategy, comfortable synthesizing customer interviews into strategic narratives and writing precise technical specifications.

Requirements

7+ years in PM, including Staff, Principal, or equivalent scope.
Deep experience with AI/ML platforms or developer-facing products strongly preferred.
Operates at systems level — thinks in platforms, not features.
Understands how product decisions create leverage or lock-in two years from now, and has navigated that before.
Deep AI product thinker — has owned AI-native products through multiple iterations.
Understands eval frameworks, model tradeoffs, prompt architecture, and the operational complexity of running LLM features at scale.
Organizational multiplier — turns tribal knowledge into reusable standards and patterns.
Trusted cross-functional voice — Engineering leadership, the CTO, and the CEO treat your opinions as signal.
Equally strong in discovery and strategy — comfortable synthesizing months of customer interviews into a crisp strategic narrative as writing a precise technical spec.
Uses AI tools fluently to prototype, validate, and pressure-test product directions.
Writes and speaks with the precision and confidence that shifts decisions at the executive level.

Nice To Haves

Deep experience with AI/ML platforms or developer-facing products

Responsibilities

Speak directly with many customers and customer executives to understand their needs
Prototype and rapidly iterate on your product ideas
Own the highest-leverage product areas with significant autonomy
Shape our AI platform strategy — work with the CTO and AI team to define where AI capabilities create durable product differentiation
Establish product standards — define how we do discovery, write specs, measure outcomes, and run experiments across the org
Drive cross-functional alignment at leadership level — own product narratives that align Engineering, Design, GTM, and executive leadership
Be the PM for the hardest problems — strategically critical, technically complex, and genuinely ambiguous