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Strategic Product Manager

San Francisco, California, United StatesOnsiteFull Time$150,000–$220,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup

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Role summary

Scale is seeking a Strategic Product Manager to drive high-impact initiatives in Machine Learning, particularly for industries like self-driving cars. This role involves designing and building new solutions, tools, and products to address pressing company problems and strategic customer needs. The position requires a blend of engineering, product management, and operations expertise, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset and comfort in ambiguous, high-stakes environments. The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional projects, own execution for strategic data labeling operations, and contribute to key company metrics.

Scale is at the forefront of enabling Machine Learning across multiple industries including self driving cars. As one of Scale's strategic product managers, you'll be designing and building new solutions, tools, and products to solve new problems that arise as we grow.

As a Strategic Product Manager, you will work on Scale’s highest impact investments or most pressing problems. This will generally involve delivering results for strategic customers or developing new products or solving novel challenges in order to move key company metrics. The role involves a combination of engineering, product management, and operations work. The ideal candidate has a strong entrepreneurial mindset and is comfortable working under ambiguity and owning “must win” outcomes.

You will:
Lead cross-functional projects with diverse stakeholders (Engineering + Ops + Go to Market)
Develop new products or enhance existing ones to fulfill the needs of strategic customers or initiatives
Own the execution of our data labeling operations for strategic projects
Work on some of the most impactful problems at the company

Ideally you'd have:
Strong software engineering background (a degree in computer science or equivalent experience)
Some previous experience working in product development
Excited to do intense, high impact work (you should be prepared to work long weeks when necessary)
Experience working on operational problems (or a desire to do so)
Ability to solve difficult problems in high-stakes environments
Entrepreneurial experience and mindset - you are excited about building things from scratch
2+ years professional work experience

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