Principal Product Manager, AI Gateway

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Establish the vision, roadmap, and criteria for success for the AI Gateway.

• Balance the needs of developer adoption with enterprise requirements.

• Collaborate with developers, AI teams, platform engineers, and security stakeholders to identify needs and validate solutions.

• Enhance the onboarding experience starting from the launch of a sandbox and authentication to connecting an agent, selecting a model, and completing the initial useful task.

• Partner with engineering and design teams on APIs, CLI tools, administrative experiences, documentation, and integrations with AI coding tools.

• Collaborate with inference providers to assess model capabilities and plan for integrations.

• Prioritize model discovery and ensure compatibility.

• Convert requirements for identity, access management, credential protection, policy enforcement, and auditability into functional capabilities.

• Define strategies for traffic balancing, routing, and fallback across inference providers.

• Manage priorities related to inference cost, including visibility into usage, budgeting, and optimization of spending.

• Draft product requirements, make trade-offs, and work collaboratively on positioning, onboarding, release readiness, and continuous learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management.

• Proven experience in developing developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products.

• A record of successfully taking a product from concept to launch, validating customer demand, defining initial scope, and driving adoption.

• Strong technical foundation through software engineering experience or managing highly technical products.

• Capability to evaluate API designs and comprehend system architecture.

• Practical experience with AI tools and agent workflows.

• Excellent product judgment and analytical abilities.

• Experience utilizing customer research and product data to prioritize investments and assess outcomes.

• Exceptional written communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

• Docker does not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.

• Flexible work schedule.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days.

• Scheduled end-of-year Whaleness break.

• Support for home office setup.

• Technology stipend of US$100 net per month.

• Annual stipend for learning and development, covering conferences, courses, certifications, and ongoing education.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.

• Equity opportunities for all full-time employees.

• Comprehensive medical benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Paid holidays.

• Docker merchandise.