Product Manager

About Gem

• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2026
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2024
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023

Role and Day-to-Day

• Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a major product area, making tradeoffs across customer impact, technical constraints, and long-term company strategy.
• Meet with customers regularly and deeply understand the market.
• Own product outcomes through metrics, customer feedback, and rapid iteration.
• Partner with Gem’s GTM team to bring your products to market.

Gem AI

• Shape the future of agentic AI recruiting.
• Own search, retrieval, and AI-driven discovery experiences at scale.
• Work with a team of 10+ engineers, partnering closely with a dedicated engineering manager and product designer.
• Partner with Marketing to establish Gem as a thought leader in AI Recruiting.
• Work with Gem’s AI Governance Group to innovate and build ethical AI products.

Gem ATS

• Bring end-to-end AI workflows to a massive product category full of legacy products.
• Balance the roadmap across Gem’s entire spectrum of customers: from Gem’s PLGs startup program all the way up to our leading Enterprise Design Partners.
• Work with a team of 10+ engineers, partnering closely with a dedicated engineering manager and product designer.
• Partner closely with Design, Success, and Support to build intuitive user experiences for complex workflows.
• Work with Partnerships to establish Gem ATS as the leading ecosystem in the recruiting space.

About You

• 5-10 years of experience as a product manager, building and owning world-class tech products.
• On top of the latest in AI and using AI in your daily workflows.
• Strong product taste and obsession about user experience.
• Comfort in partnering deeply with engineers on technical tradeoffs that materially affect product quality and outcomes.
• A track record of setting product strategy and direction, not just executing predefined roadmaps.
• (Bonus) Experience building AI-powered products, especially in search, retrieval, ranking, or content discovery.

Role Details

• Location: This role is based 3 days per week out of our San Francisco HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work.
• Compensation: The annual cash compensation range for this position is $220,000–$250,000 based on level in addition to equity & benefits.