Staff Strategic Product Manager

Scale is at the forefront of enabling Machine Learning across multiple industries including Generative AI and self-driving cars. Strategic Product Managers lead technical partnerships with researchers at our biggest customers, offer actionable insights, and build frontier data sets that push the boundaries of model development using Scale's data engine.As a Strategic Product Manager, you will work with Scale's most important customers and their leading researchers to push the boundaries of AI models and influence both internal and external roadmaps. This will generally involve a combination of go-to-market, technical stakeholder management, product management, and operations work. The ideal candidate has a strong entrepreneurial mindset and is comfortable getting in front of technical stakeholders to drive "must-win" outcomes.You will:Lead cross-functional initiatives with diverse ducts or enhance existing ones to fulfill the needs of strategic customers (Engineering + Ops + Go to Market) Build technical partnerships with AI researchers and product teams, and lead the development of new data strategies to advance model developmentDrive overall strategy and offer actionable market, competitive, and data insights for strategic customersExperiment and develop frontier data sets that push the boundaries of AI model developmentIdeally, you'd have:Entrepreneurial experience and mindset - you are excited about building things from scratchStrong software engineering background (a degree in computer science or equivalent experience) - the role will involve some coding, and you should be prepared for that6+ years of experience in a customer-facing and product-facing roleExcited to do intense, high-impact work (you should be prepared to work long weeks when necessary)Experience working on operational problemsAbility to solve difficult problems in high-stakes environments. This will usually involve getting into the weeds to ensure the success of "must-win" projects