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Product Manager, Applied Research

Luma AI· Product Management
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Hybrid (SF Bay Area, CA)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Bridge research and product at an AI lab/applied AI company, translating frontier multimodal research into shippable enterprise features across Canvas, Agents, and the model platform while shaping priorities, evaluation, prototypes, and go-to-market alignment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product strategy for translating Luma's frontier research capabilities into shippable features across Canvas, Agents, and the model platform
  • Work directly within the research team to shape priorities, ensuring model development and evaluation are informed by real enterprise needs in marketing, advertising, and entertainment
  • Establish and operate the feedback loops between research, product, go-to-market, and forward-deployed teams — so that market signals flow into research prioritization and research breakthroughs flow into product planning
  • Interpret evaluation results and research findings to identify which emerging capabilities have the highest product and commercial leverage — and make bets accordingly
  • Build prototypes yourself to validate product ideas before committing engineering resources — using the models directly to test hypotheses about what's possible and what customers will value
  • Define the product implications of research advances in multimodal understanding, generation, tool use, and agent capabilities — translating "the model can now do X" into "customers can now solve Y"
  • Partner with the Agent PM and Enterprise PM to ensure research priorities align with enterprise needs
  • Drive the cadence and process for research-to-product handoffs — defining readiness to ship and managing transition from prototype to production feature
  • Own the quality bar for research-to-product delivery

Qualifications

  • Principal or Staff-level product management experience (L6 seniority or above) bridging research and product at an AI lab or applied AI company
  • Comfortable in a research environment — can read evaluations, interpret implications, and help researchers see product impact
  • History shipping products that originated in research, including turning emergent capabilities into new product surfaces
  • Ability to build prototypes themselves — write prompts, test hypotheses, and validate ideas with models
  • High agency and self-starter mentality in ambiguous research environments
  • General manager mindset — evaluate research directions for commercial viability and customer impact
  • Experience across large companies and startups, understanding research pace and commercial urgency
  • Ability to influence without authority — provide well-informed, reasoned input on priorities

Skills

Required:Product management (senior)Prototype developmentEvaluation framework designCommunication with researchersStrategic thinkingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Domain knowledge

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation commensurate with experience
  • Health, dental, vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Casual, collaborative culture at a fast-growing AI lab
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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