Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sayari is a venture-backed global corporate data provider that serves various sectors, including financial institutions and governments. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of their AI initiatives, focusing on product ownership for backend AI systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance their AI infrastructure.
Responsibilities
• Define and execute the roadmap for Sayari's AI infrastructure
• Lead the strategy for model selection, fine-tuning, and deployment
• Establish the 'ground truth' for Sayari AI
• Define how our systems reason and interact
• Partner deeply with 'Front-end' Application PMs to ensure backend capabilities translate into seamless user experiences
• Author the business cases and define business outcomes for significant technical shifts in our AI stack
• Lead the effort to translate complex analyst tradecraft and investigative methodologies into automated 'Skills' and agentic reasoning
• Act as a Cultural Architect for AI, evangelizing a 'Quality-First' mindset across the company
Skills
• 7+ years of Product Management experience, specifically focused on backend platforms or AI/ML engines, where product success is defined by managing a combination of deterministic & probabilistic reasoning
• 2-4+ years of experience in Product Management of AI-driven solutions & Deep Generative AI Fluency: Proven ability to drive requirements for complex AI systems, including prompt engineering frameworks, agent orchestration, and automated evaluation systems
• Ability to define success metrics and evaluation frameworks that ensure AI performance meets the accuracy and reliability requirements of mission-critical environments
• Prior experience leveraging risk, intelligence, supply chain, or financial investigation data to solve complex customer problems
• Experience managing a 'Platform-as-a-Product' model, focusing on building reusable backend components that power a diverse ecosystem of applications
• Comfortable discussing model architecture, embedding strategies, and infrastructure trade-offs (e.g., Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery) with engineering peers
• A track record of translating vague technical possibilities into high-impact, executable product requirements, leading complex, cross-functional initiatives (Engineering, Legal, Sales, CS) where success depends on your ability to negotiate trade-offs and build deep trust with stakeholders
• Proven ability to make high-stakes product bets in non-deterministic environments where data is messy and 'perfect' answers don't exist. You rely on domain expertise, rigorous logic, and expert-driven intuition
• Experience defining how complex entity-relationship data should be leveraged to automate high-order reasoning tasks
• Technical familiarity with model fine-tuning, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), or the deployment of SLMs in production
Benefits
• 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
• Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
• Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and bonuses for non-revenue positions
• A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage),, and parental leave
• A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities
Company Overview
• Sayari is the mission-driven leader in economic security and risk intelligence. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://sayari.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• Sayari has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.