Product Manager – Developer Experience

Baseten

Product Manager developing developer tools and overseeing AI model deployment at Baseten. Leading cross-functional teams to enhance developer experience and foster innovation in AI systems.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $165,000 - $330,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You’ll own the end-to-end journey from first sign-up to a running, maintained production deployment and reducing the time it takes to get there.
CLI and SDKs as the primary way developers and their AI agents build on Baseten — and the authoring surfaces (CLI, console, truss, config.yml / model.py / chains.py) converged into one coherent path.
First-run experience — onboarding, model discovery and deploy via the Model Library, and a first deploy where errors surface and builds show progress.
Deployment lifecycle and safe releases — environment promotion (dev → staging → prod), version history and an artifact/model registry, reproducible deployments, and the progressive-delivery controls developers set and read: canary, shadow, A/B, scheduled promotion, and one-gesture rollback.
Multi-model composition (Chains) and evolving the DevEx for developers building multi-modal agents and applications
Voice of the Developer — you live in customer conversations and turn deploy-and-operate friction into roadmap.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You’ve built dev tools as an engineer before you became a PM. You've shipped SDKs, CLIs, APIs, or platform surfaces with your own hands.
You take great pride in dev tooling and dev products that you’ve shipped with proof
5+ years building developer-facing or technical products - as a product manager, or as a product-minded engineer.
Genuine taste for developer experience across *both* local (CLI) and UI - you've made something complex feel simple, and can point to where.
Strong opinions on CLI, API first and agent-first design - you treat the coding agent as a first-class user, not a feature.
Technical enough to earn engineers' trust and reason about what's under the hood — because you've been under it.
A rigorous researcher who lets customer reality drive the call and a relentless shipper.
Bonus: experience with ML infrastructure, developer tools, or API products, you've deployed and served models yourself.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SDKsCLIsAPIsmodel deploymentmulti-model compositionversion historyartifact registryreproducible deploymentsprogressive deliveryML infrastructure

Soft Skills

customer conversationsresearchproduct managementdeveloper experiencetrust buildingsimplicity in complexityrelentless shippingstrong opinionstaste for designcommunication