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Director of Product
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About Weaviate
- AI startup with open source and creativity at its core
- AI-native vector database uses machine learning to create meaningful insights from unstructured data
- Named one of Forbes' Top 50 AI startups, with over a million monthly downloads
- Team members work remotely across the globe with the flexibility to work from anywhere and at any time
About this role
- Own product strategy and decision-making across the Weaviate Database, Weaviate Cloud, and agent products
- Spend a lot of the week with customers, turning what you heard into a roadmap that engineering can act on
- Work directly with the CTO on vision and with tech leads on what's actually feasible
- Player-coach role: manage a small product team, likely one to three PMs over time, while continuing to own product areas yourself
Responsibilities
- Run a continuous rhythm of customer conversations: discovery calls, renewals, and support signal
- Turn enterprise requirements into clear specs engineering can build from, with the underlying problem attached
- Maintain one prioritized roadmap that shows what's shipping, what got moved to make room, and why
- Attach an expected business impact to significant roadmap items so tradeoffs can be argued with evidence
- Assess incoming enterprise requests for criticality and pattern
- Manage expectations across sales, leadership, and customers when priorities change
- Define success metrics for major features and follow up on them after they ship
- Partner with tech leads on sequencing, feasibility, and dependency-heavy work across releases
- Make the cost of a change in direction explicit before it lands on a team
- Give engineering enough context on customer problems that they can push back with better ideas
- Keep the balance between customer-driven work and the reliability and platform work engineering needs to do
- Establish the operating cadence for planning and execution
- Hire and develop PMs as the team grows, while staying hands-on in your own areas
- Partner with GTM and marketing so new capabilities land with positioning that matches the customer problem they solve
Requirements
- 8+ years in product management, including recent hands-on IC work
- Experience with enterprise customers: discovery, requirements gathering, and expectation management with large accounts
- Track record of quantifying the business impact of roadmap decisions and defending prioritization to stakeholders who disagree
- Comfortable in a technically deep domain such as databases, data infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer tools
- Experience running product process in Linear or a comparable tool
- Strong written communication
- Some people management experience, or clear readiness to take that step with a team of one to three
- Working hours between GMT and ET, with flexibility for an occasional early or late call
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at a developer tools or open source company
- Familiarity with vector search, embeddings, RAG, or agent workflows
- Background working with enterprise customers alongside a self-serve motion
- Experience in a company where product owned both an open source project and a commercial cloud offering
What we offer
- 100% remote with flexible work hours
- Competitive compensation, including paid time off
- Budget available to spend on going to conferences, co-working space, home office equipment, etc.
- Work with very experienced and fun team members
- An atmosphere that encourages learning and personal growth
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