Staff Product Manager

Staff Product Manager The Staff Product Manager is Orion's most senior individual contributor track in product. This is a player‑coach role: a Staff PM raises the bar through their own craft — shipping the hardest problems themselves, modeling AI‑native product development, and actively mentoring a small group of peer PMs — without carrying direct reports. Staff PMs sit directly under a GM, signaling that builders have a first‑class path to the most senior levels of product leadership. Essential Functions of the Job Own the highest‑leverage, ambiguous, or hardest‑to‑solve problems in the pillar — the platform‑level bets and the initiatives where the outcome matters most Personally ship the work: PRDs, prototypes, shipped features, customer research synthesis, and post‑launch analyses — at the quality bar the rest of the team calibrates against Build and deploy AI‑native workflows: prototype in AI coding tools, run discovery and synthesis through LLMs, ship internal agents that eliminate repetitive work, and publish those workflows as team standards Partner with engineering leadership on technical direction for the pillar — data contracts, AI/model integration decisions, platform investments Translate GM‑level strategy into a crisp, opinionated product vision for the pillar; set the product quality bar the team works against Run end‑to‑end discovery: customer interviews, data analysis, competitive research, opportunity sizing — AI‑accelerated at every stage Lead cross‑pillar initiatives that touch more than one product, where a senior IC perspective is more valuable than a management handoff Represent the pillar in customer executive conversations, industry forums, and cross‑functional executive reviews Player‑Coach Responsibilities (no direct reports) Mentor 3–6 peer PMs through weekly 1:1s, PRD reviews, shadowing on discovery calls, and pair‑shipping on hard problems Raise the team's AI fluency: teach AI‑native workflows, maintain the pillar's prompt and agent library, review AI‑generated artifacts for quality Own the hiring bar for the pillar's PM hires; lead technical interview loops and make hire/no‑hire calls alongside the GM Be the person peers escape to when stuck — unblock them and make the call on hard tradeoffs Model operating norms (documentation, async comms, meeting hygiene) that keep the team flat and fast Skills Proven track record of shipping successful products at senior IC level Deep, demonstrable AI fluency — has built features powered by LLMs, ships prototypes in modern AI coding tools, understands eval frameworks, cost tradeoffs, and agent architectures; this is not \ #J-18808-Ljbffr