Principal Product Manager, AI Agents & MCP

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
237K-398K Annually
Senior level
Software
The Role
Lead strategy, vision, and execution for Amplitude’s AI agents and MCP products. Define 12–24 month priorities, improve agent quality through evaluations and feedback systems, expand MCP integrations across coding agents, CLIs, and IDEs, engage customers to identify use cases, and enable field teams to position and support agentic products. The role partners closely with design and engineering while serving as an internal and customer-facing thought leader on agentic product development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About the Role & Team

Agentic Amplitude is the team that’s responsible for Amplitude's AI agent strategy. The team shipped the Amplitude Global Agent, Custom agents, and our MCP surface, and continues to deliver new products at a fast pace.

The team is small, moves fast and thrives on curiosity, autonomy, and strong cross-functional partnership. We operate with a bias toward rapid iteration and refine our approach as the underlying technology and models advance.

This role is the product lead for this surface area. The successful candidate will set the strategy and vision and lead the design and engineering teams to deliver new innovations, while serving as the company’s thought leader on agentic products.

Responsibilities
  • Define the direction for Amplitude's agents and MCP surfaces over the next 12 to 24 months, and determine the priorities that will guide investment.
  • Own the product vision for how AI agents help our customers to get to insights faster, make decisions with greater confidence, and take the right actions to improve their products.
  • Advance our MCP capabilities so that customers can work with Amplitude from their coding agent, CLI, or IDE, in addition to our own user interface.
  • Create the evals, quality standards, and feedback mechanisms required to measure customer value and iterate on the agent experience.
  • Talk regularly with customers to understand their workflows and identify new opportunities and use cases for AI agents to deliver value.
  • Partner closely with the field organization to enable them to position, demo, and support AI Agent products effectively.
  • Serve as a thought leader on agentic products, establishing best practices both internally and with customers.
Measures of Success
  • A clear and inspiring agent and MCP strategy that leadership and the field organization can articulate consistently.
  • Increased adoption of existing agents and MCP capabilities, complemented by new agentic products that address emerging customer needs.
  • Broad MCP adoption within customer workflows outside the Amplitude user interface.
Qualifications
  • 7+ years of product management experience, including taking 0-to-1 products from concept through delivery.
  • 3+ years building products on AI/ML technologies, with recent hands-on experience in delivering agentic products
  • Fluency in the latest LLM trends, models, and tools, with a strong understanding of context management, latency, eval methods, and common failure modes.
  • Experience building systems that measure whether a probabilistic product is getting better over time.
  • A demonstrated record of executing complex initiatives in close partnership with engineering and design. 
  • Comfort operating amid ambiguity, rapid change, and a roadmap that evolves alongside the technology.
  • A consistent history of setting ambitious goals and achieving them through clear strategy, disciplined execution, and effective collaboration.
Our values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

  • Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
  • Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
  • Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
  • Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

  • Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, ​Dental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
  • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
  • Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
  • Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
  • Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

  • Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
  • We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market. 
  • We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
  • We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
  • We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
  • We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
  • Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
SF ROLES ONLY: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $265,000 - $398,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $265,000 - $398,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $237,000 - $356,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

By applying for this job, you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

Staying Safe - Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud
We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and/or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @amplitude.com email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring to this article. Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of product management experience
  • Experience taking 0-to-1 products from concept through delivery
  • 3+ years building products using AI/ML technologies
  • Recent hands-on experience delivering agentic products
  • Fluency in current LLM trends, models, and tools
  • Strong understanding of context management, latency, evaluation methods, and common failure modes
  • Experience building systems that measure improvement in probabilistic products over time
  • Demonstrated record executing complex initiatives with engineering and design
  • Ability to operate amid ambiguity, rapid change, and evolving technology
  • History of setting ambitious goals and achieving them through strategy, execution, and collaboration

Amplitude Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Amplitude and has not been reviewed or approved by Amplitude.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive and fair across many roles and levels. Public compensation ranges and stability over time reinforce a perception of above‑average total compensation.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave for birthing and non‑birthing parents is paired with fertility support via Carrot, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and back‑up childcare. These programs are consistently highlighted across official materials and recent job postings.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Global access to Modern Health, a monthly Lifestyle Spending Account, and select One Medical availability support whole‑person wellness. Quarterly learning stipends and flexible benefits enhance everyday support.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
505 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Amplitude is the Digital Optimization System. Powered by the proprietary Amplitude Behavioral Graph, the Digital Optimization System enables organizations to see and predict which combination of features and actions translate to business outcomes – from loyalty to lifetime value – and intelligently adapt each experience in real-time based on these insights. Amplitude is the brain behind more than 45,000 digital products at over 1,000 enterprise customers and 23 of the Fortune 100, helping them innovate faster and smarter by answering the strategic question: "How do our digital products drive our business?"

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