Product Manager
Inception Labs
Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 7, 2025
Product Manager
Bay Area
Engineering
In office
Full-time
Role Overview
We're seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead product strategy and execution for our API service. As one of our first product hires, you'll work cross-functionally to define our product roadmap, prioritize features, and drive product decisions that directly impact our customers and business growth. This role requires someone who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy through launch and optimization
- Conduct user research, analyze data, and gather stakeholder feedback to inform product decisions
- Partner with leadership to improve development velocity, manage dependencies, and remove blockers
- Monitor product performance metrics and iterate based on user feedback and data insights
- Stay current on industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies
Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in B2B SaaS or similar environments
- Track record of launching successful products and features
- Experience conducting user research and interviews
Preferred Skills
- Experience scaling products from early stage to growth phase
- Experience working with LLMs at the modeling or application layer
- Technical background & familiarity with LLM research
Why Join Us
- Impact: Deploy LLMs that transform how millions of users work, create, and solve real-world problems.
- Innovation: Pioneer novel architectures and training techniques for diffusion LLMs.
- Growth: Enjoy a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your contributions will directly shape the future of generative AI.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing startup.
- Flexible vacation and paid time off (PTO).
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Professional development opportunities (conferences, courses, etc.).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a startup at the forefront of AI development! If you’re ready to make a tangible impact in the world of generative AI, apply today.
About Us
Inception is a generative AI startup. Leveraging breakthrough AI research, we are training next-generation large language models (LLMs) powered by diffusion. Unlike existing auto-regressive models, which only output one token at a time, diffusion LLMs can output many tokens in parallel. This means that they are several times faster and can leverage their additional test-time compute to improve quality. They also enable fine-grained control over their outputs to adhere to specific schema and semantic constraints, and they provide a unified paradigm for combining language with other data modalities, including audio, images, and videos.
Our team is led by Stefano Ermon (co-inventor of diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO; faculty at Stanford), Aditya Grover (co-inventor of node2vec and decision transformers; faculty at UCLA), and Volodymyr Kuleshov (prev. co-founder and CTO at Afresh Technologies; faculty at Cornell), and includes engineers from Google Deepmind, Meta AI, Microsoft AI, and OpenAI. We are currently deploying large-scale diffusion LLMs at Fortune 500 companies.
We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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Req ID: R18