About Demand.io
At Demand.io, we create AI-driven, community-centric digital experiences that help people shop smarter and connect around shared passions. Our newest product, SimplyCodes, is the world’s best coupon utility, powered by AI and an incredible community of shopping enthusiasts. We are a small, nimble team of senior technologists with a passion for building innovative products that help millions of people shop smarter. Our mission is to solve everyday consumer problems at scale using advanced engineering, thoughtful design, and a community-first, web3-inspired mindset. As a media lab, we experiment, prototype and test new product concepts, investing where we see traction. As an e-commerce network, we drive over a billion dollars of sales each year to our retail partners through our network of shopping apps and websites.
About the Role
As our Product Management Lead for AI Products and Platforms, you will play a crucial role in product ownership and the growth of our product, Product.ai. Your responsibilities will include spearheading the development of our proprietary language model tuned for shopping queries and knowledge requests, and crafting a comprehensive Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy in a rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs).
What You’ll Do
- Lead the product ownership tasks, including defining the product roadmap, prioritizing features, and setting strategic direction for our AI products and platforms.
- Develop a forward-thinking GTM strategy for Product.ai, anticipating the competitive landscape and consumer needs for late 2024. Determine the optimal mix of features and effectively communicate a distinct positioning message to our target audience.
- Define the ideal target users for Product.ai. Engage them as beta testers for early concepts and prototypes, ensuring a product that resonates with user needs and expectations.
- Collaborate with our AI engineering team to develop, train, and optimize our proprietary language model designed for product research and shopping queries.
- Build out and manage our suite of shopping AI plugins for frameworks like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and other ecosystems, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable user experience.
- Partner with our Taxonomy PM to refine and optimize our core commerce ontology, providing structured, real-time knowledge on commerce-related entities.
- Lead the development and launch of new digital shopping services utilizing AI, community, crowdsourcing, and blockchain technologies.
- Apply AI and language model capabilities into our core shopping apps, websites, and extensions, tailoring AI strategies for each product to enhance user experience.
- Develop a long-term technical strategy for AI in e-commerce, focusing on developing, training, optimizing, and productizing large language models.
About You
- You bring at least 5 years of Product Management experience in AI or e-commerce, with a proven track record of innovative product launches.
- You hold a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or you have equivalent practical experience. Your technical background allows you to effectively collaborate with AI engineering and data science teams and understand the complexities of developing and optimizing language models.
- Experience with technologies enabling distributed training of machine learning models.
- Strong understanding of not only modern machine learning frameworks and libraries but also the use and deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). Combined with your solid grasp of e-commerce platforms and their inherent challenges, you have successfully designed and implemented AI/ML solutions in consumer-focused environments. Your experience demonstrates how these technologies can be harnessed to tackle e-commerce challenges and significantly enhance user experiences.
- Strong grounding in analytics, including all major CDP platforms.
- Experience with capacity planning and resource management. You can effectively allocate resources, manage timelines, and ensure the scalability and performance of our AI products and platforms.
- You are a visionary leader who can work collaboratively with various teams to bring cutting-edge AI-powered shopping services to market. You can envision the long-term direction of our AI products and platforms, taking into account market trends and customer needs.
Benefits and Perks
- Annual compensation: $200k - $275k DOE. Includes base and monthly profit-sharing of roughly $25k in first year with annual increases.
- Stock options: 0.25% to 0.35% initial grant.
- Eligibility for our Partners program, a unique profit-sharing mechanism tied to company performance.
- Wilshire Creative Space: A state-of-the-art 10k square foot technology development facility offering open space, open work setup, large recreation & break room with free food, silence / focus facilities, podcasting studio, and sweeping views from the ocean to downtown.
- All meals provided free daily, fully stocked kitchen with free food, snacks, coffee and drinks.
- Regular team-building events, dinners and activities.
- Comprehensive health coverage (executive PPO, HMO options), dental, vision coverage, paid 100% for all your dependents.
- Sponsorship for all ongoing education, courses, books and certifications.
- 401K.
- Hybrid, morning-focused in-office schedule concentrated on meetings and collaboration. Some employees work remotely in the latter half of the day. Additional hybrid options available for those with longer commutes.
- Empowered, flexible, high trust work culture. Unlimited PTO.