Research Product Manager
San Francisco, CA$175k - $475kPosted 11mo ago
About the role
Research Product Manager role at Thinking Machines Lab in San Francisco, focused on driving complex, high-impact technical products and programs spanning research, infrastructure, and applied domains.
Responsibilities
- Drive and coordinate large-scale research products and programs, ensuring that complex projects are executed efficiently, transparently, and with scientific excellence.
- Translate technical ideas into actionable, well-scoped plans, defining milestones and keeping teams aligned across model development, data campaigns, infrastructure, and product integration.
- Collaborate across disciplines — from research and ML infrastructure to legal and business development — ramping up quickly on new domains as needed.
- Create and maintain compute and resource roadmaps, identifying bottlenecks, trade-offs, and opportunities to accelerate progress.
- Synthesize and communicate progress across diverse technical teams, ensuring the right people are looped in at the right time and that information flows smoothly across the organization.
- Support the integration of new technologies and research insights into production systems and product roadmaps, bridging the gap between frontier research and real-world applications.
Qualifications
- Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, physics, engineering, or similar
- Experience in research program management, product management, or similar
Skills
Required:Degree in relevant fieldExperience in research program management or product management
Nice to have:Ability to learn new technical domainsStrong technical communication (written and verbal)
Benefits
- generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- unlimited PTO
- paid parental leave
- relocation support as needed
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Thinking Machines Lab
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