Technical Product Manager
About The Position
Valency builds the infrastructure for AI-accelerated science — “Knowledge accelerated.” Our flagship product, Bond, is an MCP-first platform that national labs and enterprise research teams use to ground AI systems in verified, current scientific literature rather than hallucinated recall. We're actively expanding beyond Bond into new products that extend this mission, and this role will help shape what comes next. Valency sits between three audiences — skeptical academia, results-driven enterprise, and AI-forward amplifiers — and needs a product leader who can build credibility with all three.
Requirements
- Fluency in AI: you understand how modern LLM systems are built and where they break — grounding, retrieval, hallucination, evaluation — well enough to make roadmap calls, not just repeat the vocabulary
- A genuine interest in science and data — you want to understand how research actually gets produced, cited, and trusted, not just ship features for it
- 4–10+ years in product management, with direct experience shipping technical, infrastructure, or developer-facing products (scope/title will flex to mid or director level depending on experience)
- Comfort operating at the protocol/API level (MCP, REST, data pipelines) and translating that into roadmap and customer value
- Experience supporting enterprise or public-sector buyers — national labs, government, or other regulated environments — is a strong plus
- Familiarity with academic publishing or scholarly infrastructure (arXiv, PubMed, citation graphs, peer review) is highly valued
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a startup pace — no existing playbook
- Strong technical fluency: able to read and debate architecture with engineers without being the one writing the code
- Excellent written communication — specs, PRDs, and customer-facing narrative alike
Nice To Haves
- Experience with LLM-based products, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI evaluation systems
- A background in scientific research or academia, or experience building for researchers as end users
- Experience with two-sided platform dynamics — marketplace growth, user-generated content quality control
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end roadmap across Bond and new products in development, balancing enterprise/national-lab requirements against open-platform, product-led growth models
- Translate technical architecture — MCP-based grounding, corpus ingestion, relevance scoring — into clear specs in direct partnership with engineering
- Work with GTM on segmentation and ICP, converting prospect and customer conversations (national labs, biotech, enterprise research teams) into prioritized requirements
- Resolve open product risks head-on, including quality-control and trust safeguards for open-access products still in development
- Represent product in design-partner and customer conversations and turn what you hear into roadmap decisions
- Help stand up the product function itself — process and documentation now, and a team over time — as one of Valency's first PM hires
Benefits
- 401(k) with matching
- Competitive salary and equity package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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