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Principal Product Manager, AI

Zip is hiring a Principal Product Manager, AI for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $200k-$280k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Zip.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this AI product manager role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Pay on this posting starts 11% higher than the typical AI product manager posting on Level.
  • This is listed as a remote role.
  • The posting mentions OpenAI, LLMs and AI agents among its tools and skills.
  • Zip has 108 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead product vision and strategy for Zip's enterprise procurement AI agents and chat capabilities.

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About Zip

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.

The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.

Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.

Your Role

We’re hiring a Senior/Principal Product Manager (experience dependent) to lead a core part of Zip’s AI Agent product, one of the company’s fastest-moving and most strategic bets. Zip recently launched Superagents: LLM-powered teammates that take on the repetitive, low-value work drowning procurement, AP, risk, and legal teams so those teams can focus on strategic work.

As PM, you’ll own the vision and strategy for a major area of this product and drive it end to end with a high degree of autonomy. This is a foundational, platform role with high impact: you’ll build the agent and chat capabilities that other Zip teams and customers build on top of, so your success is measured as much by what you enable others to ship as by what your own team delivers. And because businesses trust these agents to act on their behalf, you’ll own the quality bar that makes that trust possible: the evals, guardrails, and feedback loops that keep agent output accurate, auditable, and reliable.

You Will

  • Set the vision and multi-quarter strategy for a major area of Zip’s AI product, translating a fast-changing technology landscape into a clear, opinionated view on what to build and why

  • Partner with engineering, design, and AI research to ship sophisticated agent capabilities and turn them into concrete, high-value use cases that are accurate, reliable, and genuinely useful

  • Work directly with customers and customer-facing teams to understand user needs and gather feedback on our agents and chat experiences

  • Own the quality bar for AI experiences end to end, designing the evals, rollout gates, guardrails, and feedback loops that let customers trust agents to act on their behalf, and holding the line on accuracy and reliability even as capabilities expand

  • Roll up your sleeves wherever the team needs it, whether that’s sitting in on user research, debugging a quality issue, or reviewing agent outputs

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in SaaS or consumer tech, with a track record of owning ambiguous, high-impact areas end to end

  • Deep experience partnering with engineering and design to ship sophisticated products with a great user experience

  • Experience building platform or foundational products that other teams build on top of, with a collaborative, service-oriented approach to aligning roadmaps and making their success your own

  • A track record of setting product strategy and influencing cross-functional partners and leadership without direct authority

  • Strong written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders, including executives

  • Extreme attention to detail, with the ability to quickly grasp complex business processes and industry knowledge

  • Ability to prioritize ruthlessly, even if it may disappoint customers or stakeholders

The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $280,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

  • 📈  Start-up equity

  • 🦷  Full health, vision & dental coverage

  • 🍽️  Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees

  • 🚍  Commuter benefit

  • 🚠  Team building events & happy hours

  • 🌴  Flexible PTO

  • 💻  Apple equipment plus home office budget

  • 💸  401k plan

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!

How we rate this

Principal Product Manager, AI at Zip rates 75 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

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  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
  3. Tell me about a project where product management was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where evaluations was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where guardrails was part of your work. What did you do?

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