Sr Product Manager

Zencoder
Illinois

About Zencoder


Join us at Zencoder, where our mission is to advance human knowledge through innovative AI solutions. We're transforming the landscape of software development by empowering developers with AI coding agents embedded into their workflow that help create high-quality software and accelerate product delivery. By addressing many of the routine and mundane aspects of the complex SDLC process, product organizations are instead empowered to focus on creativity, delivering value, and outperforming their competition.

The Opportunity


We seek an experienced Senior Product Manager with a keen mind, good knowledge of DevOps and LLMs, good sense of UX, impeccable customer communications, and superior execution skills. This is a unique opportunity to define a category and build a transformative product that will empower software development teams to boost their productivity and bring their ideas to life faster than ever before. You’ll work in a fast, creative, and intelligent team and bring similar qualities to the table daily. You will also interface with our enterprise prospects, pilots, and customers on a 1:1 basis to ensure that our product delivers maximum value for them.

Key Responsibilities



  • Maximize the company’s growth trajectory by shaping its product strategy: identify and prioritize opportunities, maintain a strong roadmap, and set clear objectives and KPIs. Do the ongoing pre-requisite work: customer discovery, market analysis, competitive intelligence, and creative innovations.

  • Own backlog, sprint planning, and release planning.

  • Ensure a great user experience by managing and directly contributing to UX.

  • Combine customer discovery work with pre and post-sales support for our largest customers. You will be the tip of the spear in our initial customer implementations.

  • Contribute to product marketing.

  • Your meta-KPIs are our market share, value delivered to customers, product NPS, level of innovation, and competitive differentiation.

  • Engage in all technical aspects of the product implementation. Co-own the compute budget.

  • Monitor the performance of the product after launch and ensure continuous improvement.

  • Help us build and scale a high-performing product and engineering team by fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability, coaching key team members, and leading by example.

Essential Qualifications



  • Proven track record of building complex software systems in the B2B sector that have been successfully delivered to customers at scale with multiple successful releases.

  • An advantage will be given to candidates with experience in launching and managing products that leverage Large Language Models (LLM). The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of integrating LLM technologies into products, demonstrating successful deployment and user engagement.

  • Expert-level knowledge of the DevOps pipelines and SDLC is required. Experience in managing DevOps products (IDEs, CI/CD tools, etc) is highly desirable.

  • A solid understanding of LLMs (RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering) is required. A deep understanding of the underlying concepts is highly desirable.

  • Good sense of UX and UI.

  • You need to be able to articulate the decisions you made as a product manager that significantly and positively shaped the growth trajectory of your organization/product.

  • Customer development and usability studies experience.

  • Experience in pre-sales or post-sales capacity is beneficial.

  • Based in the United States, alternatively, if based in the EU, willingness to frequently travel to the US.

Why Join Zencoder?



  • Impact: Gen AI will change how companies develop software in the next two years. Be at the frontier of that AI work, building a category-leading product in a huge market. You will have an everyday opportunity to innovate.

  • Growth Potential: Thrive in a high-growth AI startup combining personal and career growth.

  • High Talent Density: Collaborate daily with our experienced AI engineers, software engineers, and founder, Andrew Filev.

  • Developer centric product: Develop a product you can use yourself, eliminating routine tasks and focusing on impactful work.

  • Equity: Align your success with ours by participating in our equity plan.

  • Flexibility: We hire globally, prioritizing talent over location. Work where you’re most productive and comfortable.

Zencoder is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Posted 2025-08-20

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