Senior Technical Product Manager

Persona is a recruiting and staffing company that hires exceptional people from 98 countries into full-time, long-term remote roles with the most ambitious companies on earth.

Our clients include Fortune 500 enterprises, fast-growing startups backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, and high-performing companies of every size in between. We offer roles in project management, operations, finance, design, marketing, customer success, and more. Every hire is for a specific open position: one person, one dedicated client, built to last.

Every offer we make is for an open role with a single client — the kind of role that's almost impossible to find on your own: industry-leading pay set against your experience and skill, real career growth, and a stable seat at a serious company, working from home, anywhere in the world.

Persona was founded in 2018 by two Stanford graduates on a simple idea: talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn't. By recruiting globally for specific client roles, we've grown into one of the fastest-growing companies in the global staffing industry. Every applicant goes through the same steps, and each one is designed to let you show what you can actually do.

We hire people who care about the craft of their work, take ownership without being asked, and want to build a career rather than just hold a job. If that's you, and one of our open roles fits, we'd like to meet you.

Role Summary

We are hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager to join a small, highly technical, early-stage team working before product-market fit, where every decision matters and nothing is fully defined. You'll lead the discovery and iteration that turns cutting-edge privacy and AI research into products that data owners and data scientists love to use. This role is purpose-built for a hands-on, code-fluent product builder who is mission-driven, comfortable in research-to-product ambiguity, and excited by privacy-preserving computation, federated systems, and emerging AI architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Product Discovery & Delivery

• Drive discovery, experimentation, and delivery to take a flagship open-source product from concept to product-market fit

• Conduct user research and go-to-market experiments to uncover workflows, pain points, and incentives that guide product direction

• Identify the signals that matter — activation, retention, mission alignment — and use them to guide iteration

• Champion the voice of users so deeply technical work stays grounded in real human problems

Technical Product Leadership

• Collaborate closely with engineers and researchers to define, build, and iterate on deeply technical products that unlock new ways to collaborate on private data

• Translate complex systems (privacy-preserving computations, federated architectures, LLM connectors) into intuitive user experiences

• Roll up your sleeves when speed matters — prototype flows, fix bugs, or code alongside the team to accelerate learning

• Bridge research and implementation: turn technical possibilities into practical product directions

Strategy & Communication

• Communicate priorities clearly, aligning a distributed team on near-term execution and long-term mission

• Immerse yourself in the evolving landscape of privacy, AI, and data collaboration to anticipate shifts in technology, incentives, and regulation

• Engage with policy and standards communities to ensure privacy-preserving technologies are adopted responsibly

• Cultivate strategic partnerships with organizations whose data, expertise, or reach can accelerate the mission

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience building or scaling technical products, ideally in environments without a clear playbook

• Strong technical foundation with proven experience coding and collaborating closely with engineers to ship complex software

• Ability to reason about distributed systems, privacy technologies, and AI

• Hands-on with code and tooling — able to read PRs, debug, or prototype ideas to help the team move faster

• Strong grasp of the evolving AI landscape: model advances, the shift to agentic systems, full-stack architecture, and key trade-offs impacting product strategy

• Deep curiosity about emerging technologies such as secure computation, RAG, and mixture-of-experts architectures

• Comfort in ambiguity: able to create structure and bring clarity where others see complexity

• Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to align distributed teams and build trust across engineers, researchers, policymakers, and partners

• Mission-driven mindset — you care deeply about how technology shapes society

• Fully fluent in English

• Ability to commit long-term and full-time

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in early-stage or research-to-product environments

• Experience as a data scientist or building for data scientists (including hands-on with Colab and Jupyter)

• Contributions to open-source projects or standards efforts

• Exposure to or curiosity about public policy, privacy, or technology governance

• Entrepreneurial or founder-like experience, especially where you had to build both product and ecosystem from scratch

• Familiarity with privacy-preserving ML techniques: federated learning, differential privacy, secure multi-party computation (MPC), homomorphic encryption

• Background in nonprofit, academic, or research-driven organizations

Tools & Technologies

• Python (reading, debugging, light prototyping), Jupyter, Colab, Git/GitHub, Linear or Jira, Notion, Figma (basic), Slack, Loom; familiarity with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks (a plus); secure computation / federated learning libraries (a plus); RAG, agentic frameworks, LLM tooling (ChatGPT, Claude, LangChain)

Core Competencies

• Builder at heart who creates clarity rather than waiting for it

• Hands-on technical instincts paired with strong product taste

• Comfortable with messy, early-stage ambiguity

• Mission-driven and energized by impossible-sounding problems

• Strong collaborator with engineers, researchers, policymakers, and partners

• Decisive under uncertainty; iterates quickly on signal

• Curious about the intersection of privacy, AI, and societal impact

• Able to be the public face of the product with technical and non-technical audiences

What We Offer

• Best salaries in the industry

• Work from anywhere permanently

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment

• A warm, people-first company culture

• Get paid in your currency of choice

• Full benefits

This is a full-time, long-term remote position dedicated to one client company. Persona provides onboarding and ongoing employment support for this position.