About the Role
Anyscale is seeking a Senior / Staff Product Manager to lead Ray Data, our scalable data processing library for ML and AI workloads.
This is a uniquely challenging role that requires balancing open source growth with commercial differentiation - driving rapid adoption in the open source Ray Data ecosystem while building compelling proprietary features for Anyscale RunTime, our high-performance commercial engine.
You'll own the entire Ray Data product roadmap in a competitive landscape, working closely with the engineering team, the field team, enterprise customers, and the open source community. Success requires:
Deeply ingraining yourself into the end-user experience to understand the nature of the product and its gaps and tradeoffs
Working closely with customers and open source users to draw the subtle line between growth and commercialization
Strategic thinking about which parts of the ML/Data lifecycle to focus on, identifying opportunities where our architectural strengths create the most value.
Thinking deeply about and clearly articulating the product strategy to stakeholders
Key Responsibilities
Drive the Ray Data product roadmap
Drive open source Ray Data adoption
Market Positioning & Enablement
Customer engagement
Required Qualifications
4+ years of product management experience
with technical products
Strong technical background
in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or data processing
Experience working with developer and enterprise audiences
Strategic thinking
with ability to balance competing priorities and stakeholder needs
Located in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience with open source products and commercial monetization strategies
Background in ML tooling, data infrastructure, or developer tools
About Ray Data
Ray Data is a scalable data processing library built on Ray Core that provides flexible and performant APIs for distributed data processing. It enables offline batch inference and data preprocessing for ML training, scaling data processing to large clusters while maintaining ease of use for developers.
Why Anyscale
We're on a mission to make scalable computing effortless. Ray is the AI Compute Engine at the center of some of the world's most powerful AI platforms
Our tech is in production at companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, and Cruise
We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition, with $250M+ raised to date
Recent partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud are putting AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments
Competitive salary and equity, plus health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered)
We offer flexible time off, paid parental leave, and mental health support
Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
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