Product Manager

Exa is hiring a Product Manager in San Francisco, United States. It pays $160k-$300k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Exa.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this AI product manager role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AI Tools, API and product management.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
Level lists 64 other open roles at Exa.

AI in this role

Own strategy and execution for new AI search API extensions and developer products as a Product Manager at Exa.

AI ToolsAPI

product-managementprototypingdeveloper-productsroadmapping

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 we rate this

Product Manager at Exa rates 65 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.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ 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.

Key facts

Product Manager is an open job at Exa.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $160k-$300k a year.
The role is based in San Francisco, California.
The job was posted on September 26, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Exa. Apply on Exa

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Product ManagementPrototypingDeveloper ProductsRoadmappingAI ToolsAPI

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Pay

This job starts at: $160k
Typical AI product manager job: $178k

This posting starts 10% below the typical AI product manager job. See AI product manager jobs

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where product management was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where prototyping was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where developer products was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where roadmapping was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AI Tools in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Product Management, Prototyping, Developer Products, Roadmapping, and AI Tools. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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