Senior Technical Product Manager

1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
OpenMined

OpenMined

OpenMined is a non-profit organization with over 16,000 members worldwide, dedicated to advancing AI safety research and understanding AI's societal impact. They build AI governance infrastructure using privacy-enhancing technologies to provide researc...

Internet Software & Services
51-250

Description

  • Drive discovery, experimentation, and delivery to move Syft from concept to product-market fit.
  • Conduct user research and go-to-market experiments to identify workflows, pain points, and incentives.
  • Collaborate with engineers and researchers to define, build, and iterate on deeply technical products.
  • Translate complex systems such as privacy-preserving computations, federated architectures, and LLM connectors into intuitive user experiences.
  • Stay current on privacy, AI, data collaboration, regulation, and incentives to inform product direction.
  • Prototype flows, fix bugs, and code alongside the team when speed is needed.
  • Identify and track key signals such as activation, retention, and mission alignment to guide iteration.
  • Communicate priorities clearly to align a distributed team on near-term execution and long-term mission.
  • Champion user needs so technical work stays grounded in real human problems.
  • Engage with policy and standards communities to support responsible adoption of privacy-preserving technologies.
  • Build strategic partnerships with organizations whose data, expertise, or reach can accelerate the mission.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of product management experience building or scaling technical products, ideally without a clear playbook.
  • Strong technical foundation with experience coding and working closely with engineers to ship complex software.
  • Ability to reason about distributed systems, privacy technologies, and AI.
  • Experience bridging research and implementation into practical product directions.
  • Deep curiosity about emerging technologies such as secure computation, RAG, and mixture of experts.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity, creating structure, and bringing clarity to complex problems.
  • Hands-on with code and tooling, including the ability to read PRs, debug, or prototype ideas.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to build trusted relationships with researchers, engineers, policymakers, and partners.
  • Mission-driven mindset and strong interest in OpenMined’s goal of unlocking non-public information responsibly.
  • Prior experience in early-stage or research-to-product environments is preferred.
  • Experience as a data scientist or building for data scientists, including use of Colab and Jupyter, is preferred.
  • Contributions to open-source projects or standards efforts are preferred.
  • Exposure or curiosity about public policy, privacy, or technology governance is preferred.
  • Entrepreneurial or founder-like experience, especially building product and ecosystem from scratch, is preferred.

Benefits

  • Mission-driven nonprofit work focused on social impact and a safer, more privacy-preserving AI ecosystem.
  • Opportunity to contribute to open-source tools that enable global collaboration.
  • Small, ambitious, international team with a culture of clarity, candor, and creativity.
  • Flexible work hours that can be structured around your life and productivity.
  • Fully remote work from anywhere.
  • Results-driven culture with autonomy and accountability over bureaucracy.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Competitive, fair, and transparent compensation with regional equity.

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