Senior Product Manager, Experience

About Pinecone

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 5000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.

We're looking for a passionate Product Manager, Developer Experience, to join our growing team and play a key role in shaping the future of our industry-leading vector database platform.

Responsibilities:

• Conceive and execute product vision and strategy for developer APIs, SDKs, integrations, and console experiences

• Define the end-to-end developer journey from onboarding to production, reducing friction and time-to-first-value

• Drive product roadmap for developer-facing tools and features, aligning engineering priorities with strategic objectives and user needs

• Design intuitive API interfaces, SDKs, documentation, and console experiences that enhance developer productivity

• Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, and community engagement to understand developer pain points and requirements

• Analyze usage data, console analytics, and feedback to measure success and identify optimization opportunities

• Advocate for developers throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring their voice influences all product decisions

• Stay current on developer tools trends, best practices, and competitive landscape to inform strategy

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or bachelor's degree in computer science

• 2+ years of product management experience

• Understanding of developer needs and familiarity with API’s/SDK’s, and developer tools.

• Excellent communication skills to convey research findings and product recommendations to non-technical peers and leaders.

• Experience gathering feedback, input and data from users and running beta tests

• Proficiency in SQL and experience analyzing, interpreting, and leveraging data to make strategic, business decisions. You enjoy empirical, data-driven approaches to deployment

Bonus points:

• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, and Azure)

• Familiarity with vector databases and generative AI

Perks & Benefits:

• Comprehensive health coverage including Medical, Dental, Vision

• Free mental health therapy sessions; free One Medical, Tela-doc, and Health Advocate subscriptions

• Cost-savings on gynecology, fertility, and family-building care

• Equity award

• 401(k)

• Flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Annual Department Retreat

• WFH Equipment Stipend

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications in a job description. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications listed in this posting. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.