Vectara

Vectara

Senior Product Manager

Palo Alto, California, United States (or nearby) · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 49 days ago
DevOpsMachine LearningProduct ManagementProduct StrategySales

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About the role

  • Vectara is looking for a Senior Product Manager based in Palo Alto to bridge the gap between our technical capabilities and our commercial success.
  • As our leading PM, you will navigate the space between Product, Sales, and Engineering, translate market signals into a concrete roadmap, continuously refine our competitive edge, and align our go-to-market strategy with our product direction.
  • You will leverage your sales acumen to anticipate the needs of your colleagues in the field and keep them armed with what they require to be successful.

Responsibilities

  • Customer Engagement: You will be the product lead in key customer conversations and discovery sessions.
  • You'll validate our value proposition in real-time and communicate our product direction with authority.
  • You'll be responsible for ensuring fruitful design partner engagements, driving the process when needed.
  • Competitive Intelligence: Maintain an expert-level understanding of the AI landscape, especially around agents. You will turn these insights into actionable product decisions and sharper positioning for our sales team.
  • Product Definition: Maintain a problem-oriented product development process, first developing a deep understanding of the customer problem, then identifying a solution space, selecting options, weighting tradeoffs, and working jointly to find the best solution that achieves the goal within the constraints.
  • Product Roadmap: You will maintain a roadmap that is compelling to customers and exciting to the market.

Requirements

  • You can discuss concepts like agent harnesses, retrieval, embeddings, evaluation, hallucinations, latency, devops, and deployment models.
  • Track record of driving cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.
  • Located near Palo Alto and able to participate in customer meetings in-person when needed
  • comfortable representing our product and company externally.
  • Strong business and GTM instincts and experience shaping strategy, packaging, and pricing. You understand how products are sold and adopted in enterprise contexts.
  • You're technical enough to collaborate effectively with engineers and AI teams. You can discuss concepts like agent harnesses, retrieval, embeddings, evaluation, hallucinations, latency, devops, and deployment models.
  • Articulate and clear communicator when writing and speaking. You're able to reframe the same idea in various ways to suit an audience and can succinctly summarize complex ideas.
  • You're scrappy and tenacious. You'll always find a way to accomplish a goal. You don't accept failure.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity. You can create structure, prioritize ruthlessly, and keep teams moving without perfect information.
  • Bonus: familiarity with semiconductor / hardware-adjacent industries or enterprise buyers (e.g., manufacturing, regulated industries).
  • Bonus: prior experience in competitive markets against modern AI startups, search, knowledge management, or enterprise platforms.
  • Salary is just one component of Vectara's employee compensation. Our full-time employees are also equity owners in the company, which although not an immediate cash component, can have positive impacts on long-term total compensation for each participating employee. We would be remiss if we didn't highlight and celebrate our focus on engaging many of our employees in being economic co-owners of the business.

Nice to have

  • 7+ years in Product Management (or equivalent experience) in B2B SaaS / enterprise software
  • meaningful experience working on AI/ML/Data products strongly preferred.

Compensation

  • Salary is just one component of Vectara's employee compensation.

Benefits

  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees.
  • Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time and holidays.
  • You'll strike the right balance between tactical customer needs, competitive differentiation, sellability, and product vision.

Company info

  • We are passionate about helping users take advantage of breakthroughs in applied AI to solve problems and get stuff done.
  • Join us in our mission to help the world find meaning through trusted Generative AI.
  • After all, we are on a mission to find meaning.
  • As a Product Manager for a customer-obsessed company, you will relentlessly focus on the customer, framing everything in terms of the value we provide to them.
  • You will maintain a roadmap that is compelling to customers and exciting to the market.
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