FactoryProduct Manager
Factory is hiring a Product Manager in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Factory.
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 Databricks, product management and developer tools.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 69 other open roles at Factory.
AI in this role
Own the product roadmap for autonomous, AI-powered software development tools and agentic workflows.
About Factory
Our mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself.
We build the platform for self-improving software development, helping the world's largest enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile run Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously - getting smarter with every cycle.
In 2026, we raised $200M at a $5B valuation, bringing our total funding to over $400M. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).
About the Role
As a Product Manager at Factory, you will own the strategy and execution for a key area of our product suite, shaping how engineering teams experience autonomous software development. You will partner with customers to deeply understand their workflows, distill their feedback into actionable insights, and drive improvements that make Factory a fundamental driver of their daily work. You will collaborate with engineering, research, and go-to-market teams to ship features that push the boundaries of what AI can do for developers.
We are bringing autonomy to software engineering. The product surface area is vast and evolving rapidly. We need a product manager with sharp technical instincts, genuine empathy for developers, and the ability to make fast, high-quality decisions in ambiguity. You should be as comfortable diving into technical architecture discussions as you are presenting roadmap priorities to leadership.
What You Will Do and Achieve
Own the roadmap for multiple major areas of our product
Partner closely with customers to understand pain points and translate them into product improvements.
Work with engineering and research to ship features that keep Factory at the frontier of AI-powered development.
Build frameworks and processes that scale as the product team grows.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience spanning product and engineering roles, including at least one year in an engineering role
Strong technical foundation, with experience partnering closely with engineering teams to design, build, and ship complex technical products.
Proven ability to drive product launches, from concept through release, with evidence of meaningful user adoption or commercial impact.
Background in developer tools or infrastructure products is a plus.
Actively engaged with the AI ecosystem, staying current on coding agents, model capabilities, and emerging industry trends through hands-on experimentation.Thrive in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments and take ownership end-to-end.
The team works in the office 5 days a week in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain).
How we rate this
Product Manager at Factory 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.
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.
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Pay
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- $179k
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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 developer tools was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where roadmap strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai products was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Databricks in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Product Management, Developer Tools, Roadmap Strategy, AI Products, and Databricks. 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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