OVERVIEW:
The D. E. Shaw group seeks an experienced product manager to join its Application Engineering team. This group develops and maintains a range of internal software solutions, including developer tools, infrastructure libraries, and web applications used throughout the firm, and integrates both proprietary and third-party technologies. This role offers the chance to lead product ownership for a growing portfolio of AI vendor tools—such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini—working closely with groups across Systems and the broader firm in a collaborative environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY:
- Manage some of the firm’s largest AI vendor products and related integration efforts, liaising between stakeholders across the firm to drive project strategy and roadmaps.
- Evaluate product capabilities, gather and synthesize business needs and feedback, set priorities, define requirements, and coordinate execution across technical and non-technical teams.
- Lead efforts to integrate external vendor solutions into the firm’s environment, ensuring seamless and effective adoption.
- Prototype lightweight solutions, such as dashboards or other tools, to help evaluate product capabilities, communicate opportunities, and accelerate decision-making
- Help build out and manage a small team responsible for maintaining and supporting these vendor tools, including more technical individual contributors.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- At least five years of product management experience, including prior ownership of products, roadmaps, prioritization, and stakeholder communication in ambiguous environments.
- A proficient technological foundation—including basic knowledge of core computer science concepts and familiarity with a large variety of technologies—and experience with human-centered design, data analytics, or application infrastructure.
- Curiosity about technology, the initiative to spearhead improvements, and a knack for solving open-ended problems and seeing how small details interrelate to impact the bigger picture.
- Demonstrated interest in AI, experience managing vendor products, and the ability to ramp quickly, operate independently, and move work forward with limited structure.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, along with a client-service mindset and the ability to build successful relationships within the department and across the firm.
- The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000 to $275,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.
Please note that this post is not an application. Please navigate to our website to apply: https://www.deshaw.com/recruit/jobs/Adv/BuiltIn/PMAIVendortoolsOct26
The D. E. Shaw group is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- At least five years of product management experience
- Experience owning products, roadmaps, prioritization, and stakeholder communication in ambiguous environments
- Proficient technological foundation, including basic computer science concepts and familiarity with a broad range of technologies
- Experience with human-centered design, data analytics, or application infrastructure
- Demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence
- Experience managing vendor products
- Ability to ramp quickly, work independently, and advance work with limited structure
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Client-service mindset and ability to build relationships across the firm
The D. E. Shaw Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The D. E. Shaw Group and has not been reviewed or approved by The D. E. Shaw Group.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is consistently characterized as very competitive and often above industry benchmarks, with strong packages cited for both interns and early-career roles. Compensation is also framed as favorable versus several large tech firms for certain levels and geographies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives are described as a structured mix of base salary, variable performance bonus tied to individual and firm outcomes, and a guaranteed long-term incentive paid out over multiple years. Cash-heavy compensation is presented as attractive for immediacy and certainty relative to equity-heavy alternatives.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are described as robust, including pregnancy and postpartum support, fertility/adoption/surrogacy assistance, paid parental leave, and childcare benefits. These offerings are repeatedly positioned as a standout part of the overall rewards package.
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What We Do
The D. E. Shaw group is trusted by investors across the world to manage their assets by seeking the optimal balance of risk and reward. While we’re known as a pioneer in quantitative investing, we also have considerable expertise in areas that involve fundamental analysis or portfolio manager discretion. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools to uncover independent, hard-to-find sources of return across global public and private markets. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, the D. E. Shaw group began with six employees and $28 million in capital and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. In the early days of exposed pipes and extension cords, tripping on a cable could take out our whole trading system. Today, the firm has more than 2,500 people around the globe and an institutional-grade (and trip-proof) infrastructure, but we still value creativity, entrepreneurship, and the spirit of discovery. If you’re an intellectually adventurous person who loves to collaborate on challenging and rewarding projects, we encourage you to apply. Visit our Careers page at https://www.deshaw.com/careers to learn more.
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