Staff Product Manager, AI & Developer Experience (AI)

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

Salary: $226,657–$283,322 USD annually

Company

Builds data integration and transformation products that make customer data reliable and ready for analytics, including dbt Cloud and its developer tooling.

What you will do

• Define the multi-year vision, roadmap, priorities, sequencing, tradeoffs, and success metrics for developer experience across Studio IDE, Developer Agent, Cloud CLI, and the dbt VS Code Extension.
• Lead development of AI coding-agent experiences, including agentic workflows, multi-step task execution, context management, natural-language interaction, trust, transparency, control, and evaluation.
• Partner with the Fusion team to define platform and product boundaries, API contracts, shared roadmaps, and coordinated launches.
• Lead engineering, design, and go-to-market teams through predictable execution and influence senior stakeholders with strategy documents, demos, and clear tradeoff framing.
• Build feedback loops with the dbt community and enterprise customers through user research, competitive analysis, and developer engagement.
• Mentor product managers and raise product craft, rigor, and technical depth across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of strategy and roadmaps for developer platforms at scale.
• Direct experience owning developer-environment products and a strong understanding of development tools and modern IDE limitations.
• Hands-on experience building, shipping, or leading AI-agent features, including multi-step LLM workflows, tool use, context management, and evaluation; daily use of AI coding assistants.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing without authority across platform and product boundaries.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to reason about system architecture, engage deeply with engineers, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Experience turning user research and developer feedback into prioritized, well-scoped product work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from concise specifications to executive-level narratives.
• Comfort working asynchronously on a distributed, remote team.

Nice to have

• Experience building or shipping frontier AI-agent products, including agentic UX, evaluation frameworks, or agent orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with dbt or similar SQL-first transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with LSP, tree-sitter, or other IDE infrastructure primitives.
• Experience with CLI tooling and developer workflow automation.
• Open-source background or strong engagement with developer communities.
• Knowledge of Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and the analytics engineering ecosystem.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed, remote team with asynchronous collaboration.
• Employer-paid medical insurance, with variations by country and worker type.
• Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants, professional development and training opportunities, and a monthly cell phone stipend.
• Mental health support including therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources, plus virtual team activities and team-building events.