Sr. Product Manager Technical, Semantic Scholar

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Compensation Range: $148,590 - $228,830

Sr. Product Manager Technical, Semantic Scholar (Data Platform)

Who We Are: 

Semantic Scholar is a free, A.I.-powered research tool for scientific literature. We have grown from a groundbreaking research project at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to a tool millions of scholars use every week. Our mission is to empower scholars with easy access to the most relevant information from the world's scientific literature. Our work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, Nature, Science, and many other publications. 

Who You Are:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager Technical to own our data acquisition pipeline which currently processes, normalizes, and indexes over 210 million papers, using 20+ custom machine learning models. Data quality is the foundation of our product and we are looking for an experienced product manager with strong technical and analytical skills to drive the roadmap in this area. You will work directly with the other product managers on the team (Web Application, Semantic Scholar Public API, and Semantic Reader) to understand internal and external user needs, and how our data pipeline projects can address these user needs. You will also own projects that productionalize ML models that are developed by our Research team as we scale these research prototypes to our end users. You will create business requirements and own the roadmap for an engineering team dedicated to our back-end products. 

This is a new role on our team and is ideal for someone who is very collaborative, analytical, detail oriented, scrappy, and able to deal with ambiguity. We are looking for someone looking to roll up their sleeves and wear a lot of different hats in order to drive impact. This role sits on the Semantic Scholar Product team. In addition to working with our world class engineering and research teams, you will have support from other Product Managers and UX Research to help drive your roadmap. If your ambition is to join a mission-driven team working at the cutting edge of product and technology, Semantic Scholar may be the perfect opportunity for you.

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Own roadmap, requirements, and launch for features within Semantic Scholar’s data acquisition pipeline

• Analyze data and internal metrics to identify and justify key decisions and prioritization

• Write product requirements for new features, including detailed technical requirements and success criteria

• Work directly with the engineering team to launch new features

• Define and own success metrics for data quality across our corpus

• Own program management for productionalizing research prototypes, working directly with applied researchers and engineers

What You’ll Need:

• Experience with data pipeline products, and managing technical projects with many internal stakeholders

• Demonstrated strong product judgment and ability to prioritize projects

• History of strong collaboration and teamwork skills, and a demonstrated willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done

• Experience generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency

• Track record of delivering product releases on a regular cadence against ambitious goals

• Data driven and ability to deal with ambiguity 

• Experience with machine learning methods and AI products

Education/experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or related experience

• 5+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, or similar professional experience

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee routine