Senior Product Manager - AI Agent

As a Senior Product Manager

As a Senior PM on the AI Agent team, you will play a key role in delivering an AI-driven platform and leading the development of AI Agents.

Your typical day with us will involve leading frontend, backend, and AI/ML engineering teams to deliver a multi-Agent AI platform. You’ll be working closely with business teams and customers to understand how AI can be utilized to address key pain points and deliver excellent user experiences in commerce. Additionally, you will be responsible for setting the vision for our AI Agent system, defining AI applications, and driving the delivery of AI tools from conception to launch. Lastly, you will be partnering closely with Analysts and Data Engineers to utilize data to power AI-driven insights. Japanese proficiency is highly preferred to excel in this role. 

Your Typical Day With Us:

• Drive the development and scaling of a multi-Agent AI platform
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to prioritize features, resolve technical challenges, and meet business objectives
• Define API requirements and manage dependencies with other product and engineering teams
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to design and optimize data pipelines for AI ingestion and development of AI-powered insights
• Establish a clear technical vision for a multi-Agent platform, including democratization of AI, acceleration of utilization of AI, applications of AI, and AI orchestration logic
• Lead cross-functional meetings to align development initiatives with product and business targets.
• Monitor and resolve technical issues in message processing, ensuring high system performance and reliability.
• Act as a bridge between business and engineering teams, translating complex technical requirements into actionable development plans.
• Stay updated with the latest trends in AI and systems design

What You’ll Need:

• Native or business proficiency in English.
• 4-5 years of experience in product management, ideally with some experience with AI
• Proven ability to manage complex technical projects, from ideation to launch.
• Strong understanding of AI and software development
• Familiarity with data engineering
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Business proficiency in Japanese language (preferred).

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Hands-on experience with AI, backend technologies, and APIs
• Prior experience in product management in Japan
• Strong knowledge of system design, scalability, and distributed systems
• Experience working in a startup environment, driving technical innovation and growth
• Familiarity with Japanese business culture and ability to communicate effectively with Japanese stakeholders

Don’t just take our word for it

Zeals has received the LinkedIn Top Startups award twice in a row. We believe this is a testament to our growth and our ability to attract great talents–who could potentially be your colleagues! 

Our Tech Stack

• Backend Languages: Go, Python, Elixir
• Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript, React.js, Recoil, Zod, Tanstack, etc)
• Mobile Languages: None
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, GCP Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
• Configuration management tool: Terraform
• CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI
• Monitoring: Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, GCP Logging, GCP Cloud Trace, Opsgenie
• Data: BigQuery, Parquet, Spark, Scala, Python, dbt
• Knowledge Tools: Confluence
• Other: GitHub / Slack / Jira
• Process: Scrum
• Prompt Layer, VS Codec

Ready to roll up our sleeves

We obsess over bringing hospitality to everyone–be it our customers or you! You’re an individual with unique needs. So, while we can’t attract you with ping-pong tables or all-you-can-drink espresso bars, we promise you a once-in-a-lifetime experience and co-workers that you can brag about to your friends, family, or anyone you meet the next time you go out for a party! As an employer, we are ready to roll up our sleeves and change the status quo to make your experience better!

• Salary Range : competitive (performance review every 6 months)
• Performance review: twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter holiday 
• Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates. You can expect full visa support from our professional HR team. 
• Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization 
• For Japanese residence: Work from anywhere, interim work from overseas, full flex time
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Team Lunch allowance (Cross department lunch)
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)