Principal Product Manager - AI Photography - Rich Media Experience Team

About the team

Are you interested in building generative AI image models, computational photography techniques and advanced image processing solutions to power immersive experiences that change how people shop for homes? The Rich Media Experiences (RMX) team is inventing the technology that will give people the feeling of being there from the convenience of their phones or PCs. Our team works across product, research, engineering, design, and business to enable people to virtually experience a home and build an intuitive sense of being there. This is the future of home shopping.

The team is staffed with scientists, engineers, designers -- and an operations team that manages the outputs of machine learning and converting them into polished real estate media that agents and consumers use throughout their home shopping. This includes 360 tours, interactive floor plans, 3D models, best-in-class images, aerial overviews, and other insights about the home. Combined, we are paving the next chapter of home media experiences.

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager with strong technical and operational expertise, who is comfortable with building new science-fueled photography tools, models, workflow, and customer experience topics to enhance our rich media quality and provide new experiences for our customers. 

You will lead the product work to evaluate the current state of our media quality and identify tools to improve that, work with photographers to improve their efficiency through modern computational photography techniques, help us capture new media types and enable new experiences for home shoppers. You will help scale operations to serve hundreds of thousands of real estate agents and photographers. Additionally, you will partner with our operations team to define our next wave of tooling focusing on operator experience, quality of our consumer-facing products, scalability, and cost efficiency.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

• Define “big problem” spaces and collaborate with others to determine solutions
• Create a cross-functional roadmap, defining features and technical specifications for our AI tools and the workflow associated with them 
• Partner with internal teams to gather requirements, translate them into concrete plans, and partner with researchers, designers, business managers, and engineering teams to deliver on those plans
• Work with other PMs on their new QA solution needs to be added to the portfolio
• Iterate quickly, test new ideas and analyze results
• Exercise strong judgment to balance speed with high-quality and scalable end-to-end operators
• Define, articulate, and track key metrics and OKRs for the product lifecycle and steady-state operations

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York and Washington the standard base pay range for this role is $170,200.00 - $271,800.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York and Washington and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• This is an emerging product area, and the team needs a strategic and forward-looking PM who has experience with building for scale. 
• Strongly Technical: 5+ years experience in product or program management in the software industry and bachelor's degree or greater in a technical field (CS or similar)
• Experience with computational photography and image processing
• Functional knowledge of modern ML techniques (including Generative AI)
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss operations, UX, and technical concepts and manage tradeoffs
• Effective communicator (written and verbal). Able to communicate effectively with both business and technical teams.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and collaborative cross-team environment
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (computer science, operations, IT preferred)

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