We9re looking for a Senior AI Product Manager to own and scale Scale9s SEAL Leaderboard portfolio. In this role, you will define the strategy, roadmap, and operational excellence of Scale9s evaluation products, benchmarks, and public/private leaderboards. You will work across AI Product Management, ML Researchers, Engineering, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams to transform cutting-edge model evaluations into trusted industry benchmarks that influence model development and purchasing decisions across the AI ecosystem.

You will serve as the product owner for leaderboard initiatives, driving benchmark innovation, governance, infrastructure, customer adoption, and business impact. You will work directly with leading AI labs and enterprise customers, representing Scale as a thought leader in AI evaluation and measurement.

The ideal candidate combines strong product judgment, technical fluency, operational rigor, and customer-facing experience, with a passion for turning emerging model capabilities into scalable evaluation products.

You Will

• Own the roadmap and strategy for Scale9s SEAL Leaderboard portfolio, defining priorities across benchmark development, leaderboard launches, infrastructure investments, and product expansion.
• Facilitate the Leaderboard Steering Committee and drive alignment across AI-PM, ML, Engineering, Operations, and GTM stakeholders.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and operationalize new leaderboard proposals, ensuring alignment with customer demand, market opportunities, and company strategy.
• Define and manage the end-to-end leaderboard product lifecycle, from ideation and benchmark design to launch, growth, maintenance, and sunset decisions.
• Partner with ML researchers and domain experts to develop trustworthy evaluation methodologies, benchmark specifications, and leaderboard scoring frameworks.
• Drive the roadmap for leaderboard infrastructure, automation, and operational tooling to improve scalability, reduce manual effort, and accelerate benchmark releases.
• Establish governance processes for benchmark quality, evaluation integrity, release management, auditability, and update cadence.
• Work directly with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers to understand evaluation needs, gather feedback, and influence future leaderboard investments.
• Track adoption, usage, customer impact, and business outcomes, using data-driven insights to guide roadmap decisions and resource allocation.
• Identify new evaluation categories, benchmark opportunities, and leaderboard products that strengthen Scale9s industry leadership and create new revenue opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with GTM teams to support customer engagements, thought leadership initiatives, product launches, and strategic partnerships.

Ideally, You9d Have

• 5+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, consulting, or customer-facing technical roles.
• Strong technical fluency, including familiarity with machine learning systems, AI model evaluation, benchmarking, or data products.
• Experience building and scaling products that require coordination across engineering, operations, and business teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment across cross-functional organizations.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate ambiguous market and customer signals into clear product strategy.
• Experience working with AI researchers, ML teams, or evaluation frameworks is strongly preferred.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of creating new products, programs, or business initiatives from the ground up.
• Bias for action and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Passion for advancing trustworthy AI evaluation and helping define industry standards for measuring frontier model capabilities.

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You9ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting9s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$205,600-$257,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.