Head of AI Products

LeanData

Lead LeanData's AI Products team, developing AI capabilities for fast-growing companies. Oversee product vision, quality, and team development in a hybrid role.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $250,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow the AI Products team: hire, coach, mentor, and raise the technical bar
Own the technical vision for our AI and agent platform, and build the evaluation infrastructure and abstractions other LeanData teams use to ship AI features
Drive 0-to-1: turn ambiguous go-to-market problems into production-ready AI features, partnering with product, design, and data to shape the roadmap
Own the quality, reliability, and delivery of the team’s AI work, and drive the model and LLM upgrade pipeline, balancing quality, latency, and cost

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years building and shipping ML or AI/LLM systems in production, including 3+ years managing or leading engineers
A track record of building and scaling AI-powered product capabilities 0-to-1, and of growing a small, strong engineering team while staying hands-on
Strong, current Python; you still write and review production code
Applied AI experience is essential, including building products on large language models and partnering with product, design, and data to shape an AI roadmap

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningartificial intelligencelarge language modelsPythonproduction codeevaluation infrastructureAI featuresmodel upgrade pipelinescaling AI productsgo-to-market strategy

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingmentoringteam buildingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinghands-on managementtechnical visionquality assurance