Product Lead, Learning Technology (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid

Salary: $191K–$315K plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-powered language-learning tutor that provides conversation practice, instant feedback, adaptive lessons, and learning paths across multiple languages.

What you will do

• Own product direction and investment choices across voice technology, AI platform and evaluations, learner memory, and generated-content quality.
• Partner with Core Learning to connect model behavior, lesson quality, personalization, and real-time interaction to learner outcomes.
• Decide when to adopt, fine-tune, build, or use external AI capabilities while weighing quality, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Shape evaluations and release decisions for learner speech and real-time voice, including ASR, TTS, and conversational models.
• Define requirements for the Tutor agent harness, model serving, and shared AI tooling, prioritizing reliable capabilities for product teams.
• Hire, coach, and manage PMs across Voice ML, AI Platform, Content Quality, and Memory while remaining involved in priority technical decisions.

Requirements

• Deep technical product experience with AI/ML or similarly complex systems, including model behavior, data, evaluations, failure modes, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Evidence of taking a technical capability, research effort, or prototype into production with measurable product or business impact.
• Strong product judgment and experience deciding what to build, buy, adapt, or stop based on user experience and evidence.
• Experience leading multiple related product areas, setting priorities and tradeoffs, and delivering results through other teams.
• Direct experience hiring, managing, and developing PMs, including delegation, coaching, and performance management.
• Clear communication with technical teams, researchers, and company leadership.
• Relevant backgrounds may include technical founders, engineers who moved into product, and leaders of user-facing AI products.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLMs, agents, memory, personalization, or recommendation systems.
• Experience with ASR, TTS, real-time voice, multimodal AI, or model evaluation.
• Experience with generated content, content-quality evaluations, or AI developer platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a rapidly growing product company with product-market fit and significant individual impact.
• Work with a tight-knit, thoughtful team focused on craft, growth, and mutual respect.
• Engage with users across more than 40 countries and dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei.
• Regular regional user interaction and travel opportunities are available.
• Work on a product intended to improve language learning outcomes for millions of people.