Head of Engineering, Product

Overview

Our first product-focused engineer

Takes high-level direction (e.g., "analyze X") and drives to results

Success looks like a LanceDB platform that is tightly focused on our ICP, and providing clarity on what engineering builds

Responsibilities

Shape roadmap with CTO + engineering leadership

Deep dives into competitors, users, and adjacent tech

Talk to users constantly; turn insight into product changes

Drive cross-team decisions on priorities (engineering, field, support)

Work with engineering directly as a technically-respected peer

Qualifications

8+ years as a software engineer or in a highly technical product role

Shipped and iterated on products end-to-end

Experience working on large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems)

Understanding of AI researcher persona - what success looks like for them, what are their pain points, what increases their happiness

Regularly engaged with users (interviews, support, design partners, or community)

Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance

Experience influencing or driving roadmap / prioritization decisions

Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)

Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions

Experience contributing to or working with open source communities

Why LanceDB

Help define and execute product at LanceDB

Work directly with teams building real AI systems in production

Sit at the center of infra + product—few roles like this exist

High ownership, zero PM theater

Early seat in shaping a category (AI-native data layer)

Clear path to owning larger product scope over time

About LanceDB

LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data platform for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI workloads.

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