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Senior / Staff Product Manager - Ray Data

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Palo Alto, CAFull-time$219–250K/yrPosted 1y agoVerified open 5 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
$219–250K/yr
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

Job overview

AnyScale is hiring a Senior / Staff Product Manager - Ray Data. Anyscale is seeking a Senior/Staff Product Manager to lead Ray Data, a scalable data processing library for ML and AI workloads. The role balances open source growth with commercial differentiation, requiring deep user insight, strategic thinking across the ML/Data lifecycle, and clear articulation of product strategy to stakeholders.

Key focus areas include Drive the Ray Data product roadmap balancing open source feature development with commercial differentiation, Drive open source Ray Data adoption focusing on community growth, developer experience, and ecosystem integrations, and Work with Product Marketing on market positioning, field enablement, and competitive analysis.

Successful candidates bring 4+ Years Of Product Management Experience With Technical Products, Strong Technical Background, and Experience Working With Developer And Enterprise Audiences. Important skills include Strategic Thinking, Distributed Systems, ML Infrastructure, and Data Processing. Preferred (not required): Market Positioning, Field Enablement, Competitive Analysis, and Customer Engagement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Strategic ThinkingDistributed SystemsML InfrastructureData ProcessingMarket PositioningField EnablementCompetitive AnalysisCustomer EngagementOpen Source ProductsCommercial Monetization StrategiesML ToolingData InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Qualifications

4+ Years of Product Management Experience With Technical ProductsStrong Technical BackgroundExperience Working With Developer and Enterprise AudiencesLocated in or Willing to Relocate to the Bay Area

Full job description

About the Role Anyscale is seeking a Senior / Staff Product Manager to lead Ray Data, our scalable data processing library for ML and AI workloads.

This is a uniquely challenging role that requires balancing open source growth with commercial differentiation - driving rapid adoption in the open source Ray Data ecosystem while building compelling proprietary features for Anyscale RunTime, our high-performance commercial engine.

You'll own the entire Ray Data product roadmap in a competitive landscape, working closely with the engineering team, the field team, enterprise customers, and the open source community. Success requires:

  • Deeply ingraining yourself into the end-user experience to understand the nature of the product and its gaps and tradeoffs

  • Working closely with customers and open source users to draw the subtle line between growth and commercialization

  • Strategic thinking about which parts of the ML/Data lifecycle to focus on, identifying opportunities where our architectural strengths create the most value.

  • Thinking deeply about and clearly articulating the product strategy to stakeholders

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive the Ray Data product roadmap - Balance open source Ray Data feature development with Anyscale Runtime commercial differentiation to ensure that both Ray Data becomes the open source standard for AI data processing and Anyscale Runtime remains sufficiently compelling.

  • Drive open source Ray Data adoption - Focus on community growth, developer experience, and ecosystem integrations

  • Market Positioning & Enablement - Work closely with Product Marketing on strategic market positioning, field enablement, and competitive analysis to maintain differentiation.

  • Customer engagement - Drive key customer engagements assisting sales and field engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product management experience with technical products

  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or data processing

  • Experience working with developer and enterprise audiences

  • Strategic thinking with ability to balance competing priorities and stakeholder needs

  • Located in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience with open source products and commercial monetization strategies

  • Background in ML tooling, data infrastructure, or developer tools

About Ray Data Ray Data is a scalable data processing library built on Ray Core that provides flexible and performant APIs for distributed data processing. It enables offline batch inference and data preprocessing for ML training, scaling data processing to large clusters while maintaining ease of use for developers.

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