Senior Product Manager, Asta

The posting, as Ai2 wrote it

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.

Our base salary range is $115,920 - $173,880, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are

You think like a builder and an advocate at the same time. You can sit with a researcher who's pursuing a novel method and hasn't yet found the words to describe what they need, and translate that into engineering requirements that an engineering team can actually build against. You're comfortable operating at the intersection of infrastructure and science: you don't need to be an ML researcher, but you're genuinely curious about how researchers work, what agentic frameworks make possible, and where the current tooling gets in their way. You know how to turn a fuzzy, ambitious mission into a tactical roadmap with sequenced milestones and clear ownership. You hold a high bar for the experiences and tools already in the hands of our users, because internal researchers and the broader community depend on them being fast, reliable, and compliant, even while you're pushing the frontier of what's next.

Who We Are

At Ai2, our mission is to develop breakthrough AI that solves the world's biggest problems. We believe the insight needed to get there lives at the intersection of deep scientific AI understanding and the application of AI in common-good domains. This role sits on our Strategic Programs team, which also includes Product Management, Design, and Communications. As a team, we help shape Ai2's strategic vision and accelerate execution of its goals. We are a highly collaborative team with a high bar for excellence, who aren't afraid to question how things have been done in the past to propose changes that drive the organization forward. It's a very exciting time to be part of this team as Ai2 plays a unique role in shaping how AI changes the world.

Your Next Challenge

You will own the engineering and data frameworks of Asta, Ai2's platform for building agents that advance scientific research. Your users are the researchers and engineers who build on Asta; Ai2's own research teams and the broader AI-for-science community. Your primary partner will be the Agentic Frameworks and Data engineering team. You'll be one of the first product minds shaping what an agentic platform for science actually looks like. There's no existing playbook to inherit, so you have the opportunity to define engineering requirements grounded in real researcher workflows, build the roadmap for Asta's agentic framework and its supporting tools, and run the feedback loop that keeps engineering and research in continuous conversation. You'll also own the Semantic Scholar data platform end to end; a knowledge graph of 100M+ papers, and the public APIs that power Asta and science agents. You’ll keep t
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Benefits

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.