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Product Manager

Exa

San Francisco, CAFull-time$160–300K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$160–300K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Exa is seeking a Product Manager to own strategy and execution for products extending its search API to new use cases. The role combines product ownership with direct work alongside strategic customers, who account for about half of the work, to achieve business outcomes. The Product Manager will guide prioritization, measure impact, and partner across teams to launch platform capabilities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product Management, requiredTechnical Product Development, requiredDeveloper-Facing Products, requiredWritten Communication, requiredReading Code, requiredReading Specifications, requiredIntegration Testing, requiredPrototype Building, requiredAI Tools, requiredStartup Experience, nice to haveTechnical Product Management, nice to have

Qualifications

2+ Years Product Management Experience, requiredCS or EE Degree or Equivalent Depth, requiredProduction Engineering Experience, required

Full job description

About Exa Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s, and AI labs. We're a largely SF-based team of ~150 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders, and dropouts alike. About this role Exa’s Product org is small. We are designed around outcomes: better user growth, stronger developer adoption, successful launches, and clearer company wide prioritization. You will own strategy and execution for new products that extend the core exa search api to solve new use cases. This role will require working directly with strategic customers for 50% of the time to land real business generating outcomes. Minimum requirements

  • 2 – 8+ years of product management experience building technical or developer-facing products

  • Strong technical background - CS/EE degree, production engineering experience, or equivalent depth earned on the job.

  • Excellent written communication.

  • A willingness to work directly with engineering teams by reading code+specifications, testing integrations directly and building prototypes with AI tools

  • Preferred: Early startup or founding experience + technical PM experience

Key responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap, strategy, and success metrics for product extensions of the core Exa API platform

  • Work directly with AI-native startups and enterprises that integrate the Exa tool. Watch them work, unblock them, and convert pain into productized capability

  • Define metrics and success criteria to guide prioritization and measure impact across quality, coverage, cost, and speed.

  • Partner with product marketing, sales, and the field to launch platform capabilities that land, like pricing and packaging, docs, cookbooks, and enablement.

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 7,198 open Product Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$160–300K/yr
  • California median$170–241K/yr1,245 salary ranges
  • US median$140–210K/yr5,875 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $230K, is 12% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Product Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,466 open Product Manager jobs in California and 7,198 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Product Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 6,238 postings).
Education
1,989 of the 7,198 open Product Manager jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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